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Search below for resources covering the intersection of climate engagement, social science and data analytics.

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Blueprint 2.0: New Lessons for Climate Coalitions

Jack Zhou, Climate Advocacy Lab
Research & Articles
10-14-2025

Climate coalition work is still hard, so we want to help you out. Join the Climate Advocacy Lab as we premiere the Second Edition of the Blueprint for a Multiracial, Cross-Class Climate Movement Report and Workbook.

UPDATED FOR THE SECOND EDITION!

This workbook is meant to help you apply the
recommendations to your organizing practice and culture. Whether you’re currently involved in a multiracial, cross-class climate coalition, thinking about starting one, or evaluating a past coalition, we hope this workbook clarifies for you and your partners the breadth of considerations and decisions you will likely face.

Accelerate Climate Action with Behavior Change [Climate Week 2025]

Caroly Shumway & Rebecca Edgecumbe (Center for Behavior and Climate); Jo Bjorgaard & Justin Rolfe-Reding (Climate Advocacy Lab)
Research & Articles
09-23-2025

How do we accelerate climate action? This session provides you with the skills to motivate the public to accelerate climate action and reduce climate health risk. The goal of our virtual master class is to boost your outreach skills and accelerate climate action, using evidence-based behavioral science. This trans-disciplinary training includes short talks, exercises, and discussion. Expected outcomes are increased understanding of how to effectively apply behavior change to climate outreach. The presentations focus on the behavior science tools of Social norms, Social identify, Efficacy, Legacy motivation, and Framing for different audiences. View slides here.

Harmony Labs and partners set out to map Energy Transition Materials (ETM) narratives, in 9 nations and 3 domains, and experiment with communications that build support for a just energy transition.

Research & Articles
06-10-2025

Join Maine People’s Resource Center, New Jersey Resource Project, the New Conversation Initiative, People’s Action Institute and the Climate Advocacy Lab to learn about two deep canvassing campaigns launched in 2024 to build support for offshore wind in coastal communities in Maine and New Jersey.

Exploring the importance of environmental justice variables for predicting energy burden in the contiguous United States

Jasmine Garland, Kyri Baker, Balaji Rajagopalan and Ben Livneh, The Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Research & Articles
06-02-2025

The United States is one of the largest energy consumers per capita, requiring households to have adequate energy expenditures to keep up with modern demand regardless of financial cost. This paper investigates energy burden, defined as the ratio of household energy expenditures to household income.

This report primarily focuses on the ETM discourse that concerns mining, rather than demand reduction or other sources of materials, like recycling and reuse.

Rural Solar Rights

Troy A. Rule, Arizona State University, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law Paper
Research & Articles
03-05-2025

This Article describes and analyzes the growing local opposition to rural solar energy and ultimately argues for a wave of new state legislation designed to strengthen rural landowners’ rights to develop utility-scale solar projects on their land.