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For climate advocates to produce the wins we need in the long run and take advantage of the surge of enthusiasm we have at the moment, we need to move beyond single-click, transactional models of building power. While distributed and relational organizing that fosters sustained engagement from supporters may well be the oldest and most effective form of activism, new technologies and techniques never hurt. Today’s alert is the second part of the Lab’s readout from last month’s Campaign and Advocacy Tech conferences (see our overview of new tools and tech* from the events).

Following last week’s devastating news that more than 4,600 Puerto Ricans may have died as a result of Hurricane Maria, this week’s Lab alert shares the latest on what we know about how Americans’ climate opinions are affected by extreme weather events. The below can help campaigners as you plan responses to the inevitable extreme weather events to come this year, and we also flag potential new approaches worth exploring in the field.

Last week, members of the Lab team had the pleasure of ringing in the summer at the 2018 GreenLatinos National Summit, a convening of advocates working across the fields of Latino and environmental advocacy. In celebration of the critical work being led by advocates in these fields – from leading the way on intersectional policy fights to providing essential climate disaster relief – this week we highlight the latest on what the Lab community knows about Latinx engagement on climate and clean energy. (Ring a bell? Revisit our best practices* for working with Latino partners coming out of the 2016 summit.)