Trainings Archive

Are you new to the Lab, or maybe looking for a refresher? Looking to utilize the Lab more effectively to achieve greater impacts in your climate advocacy work? Join us for a hands-on webinar where you'll learn about all the resources available to you to work smarter – not (just) harder – through the Climate Advocacy Lab!

Are hopeful email subject lines more effective than scary ones? How can we highlight climate injustice without disempowering people? Does giving our activists more ownership increase their retention?
We test as one way to learn the answers to these and many more questions. We test because our assumptions and gut feelings are frequently wrong. “Testing” is the process of carefully trying out variations in what you do and measuring the results so you can learn what works. This webinar will provide a step-by-step guide to the basics of testing and prepare you to conduct simple tests (such as on email or Facebook) and to be an informed partner if working with a research expert on more ambitious projects.

Are you currently in a campaign against a utility to guarantee a clean energy future for your community? Do you plan on launching one soon? If so, join the Energy Democracy Project and the Climate Advocacy Lab as they unveil to you EDP’s People’s Utility Justice Playbook, a new resource that will be your indispensable guide to understanding how utilities play dirty and how you can fight back. This webinar will be part workshop to train you on how to use the Playbook in your advocacy, and part networking opportunity to meet and learn from other folks engaged in utility-related fights around the country.

Are you new to the Lab, or maybe looking for a refresher? Looking to utilize the Lab more effectively to achieve greater impacts in your climate advocacy work? Join us for a hands-on webinar where you'll learn about all the resources available to you to work smarter – not (just) harder – through the Climate Advocacy Lab!

Are you new to the Lab, or maybe looking for a refresher? Looking to utilize the Lab more effectively to achieve greater impacts in your climate advocacy work? Join us for a hands-on webinar where you'll learn about all the resources available to you to work smarter – not (just) harder – through the Climate Advocacy Lab!

As relational organizers have long known, ordinary people can be some of the most persuasive and effective communicators to their friends, family members, and neighbors. This panel will discuss the promise of climate conversations as a way to decrease the gap between high climate concern and low feelings of efficacy, as well as some of the difficulties and ethical considerations when it comes to testing and measuring the tactic.

Peer-to-peer texting (P2P) often feels like a complicated new tool to learn (and pay for) with uncertain payoff. However, the ability of the tool to cut through digital clutter and create an authentic, relationship-building conversation is extremely powerful.

Participants will learn:
*Strategies for organizing volunteer-led texting parties
*Specific “try this at home” techniques for increasing the commitment and success of your volunteer texters
*Different ways to link SMS as a tactic with your daily organizing and campaign work
 

Are you new to the Lab, or maybe looking for a refresher? Looking to utilize the Lab more effectively to achieve greater impacts in your climate advocacy work? Join us for a hands-on webinar where you’ll learn about all the resources available to you to work smarter – not (just) harder – through the Climate Advocacy Lab!

In this 60 minute training, we will dive into the root causes of the climate crisis. We will be particularly focusing on a race, class and gender analysis. Next, we will be talking through why it is important to have these analyses when organizing, launching campaigns and working in coalition spaces. Lastly, we will walk participants through how to develop their own narrative power around the story of self, story of us and story of now.

This is a conversation about organizing, metrics, tracking, and building power. Join Ari Trujillo-Wesler (Sierra Club), Brittany Bennett (Sunrise Movement), and Ned Howey (Tectonica Digital Campaign Solutions) in a panel discussion about organizing, measuring its elements, tracking success, and trying to figure out how to use scarce resources to work with supporters, members, and volunteers to build power.

Are you new to the Lab, or maybe looking for a refresher? Looking to utilize the Lab more effectively to achieve greater impacts in your climate advocacy work? Join us for a hands-on webinar where you'll learn about all the resources available to you to work smarter – not (just) harder – through the Climate Advocacy Lab!