I bumped into CCL (Citizens Climate Change) about 10 years ago. Someone at a table at an event. He invited me to a monthly meeting. I didn't realize we would be calling into a national meeting with an incredible guest speaker. I was hooked.
Since then I've participated in over 100 such meetings. The technology has evolved from speaker phone to live video. CCL has gone from 40-some US chapters to 476 and 602 international chapters since that first meeting.
Today's meeting featured Alex Posner, organizer of S4CD (Students for Carbon Dividend). Alex first talks about the organization and who's involved - student body presidents from across the US, spanning the racial, gender, and ideological spectrums. All supporting legislation to set up a carbon fee and dividend program as a major step to reducing carbon in the atmosphere. It's the key focus of CCL as well.
They're so well organized that the video of the meeting has been up a couple of hours already and so I've embedded it below.
The first 3:53 minutes of the video is CCL Executive Director Mark Reynolds introducing today's meeting and Alex Posner.
Then Alex talks about the S4CD and gives a great list of 10 Strategies and Techniques for organizing. Finally, a few questions. This ends about 27 minutes in. Then Alex performs a magic trick with lots of relevant symbolism. Then there is ten more minutes of meeting.
After that the Alaska Chapter met in a different zoom call, with special guest Robin Ronen talking about environmental justice issues - particularly the climate change forced move of the village of Newtok.
I do encourage you to watch/listen to the video. Take your mind off of COVID and the elections and see that people are continuing their efforts, through all this, to fight climate change. It could give you hope. It's the most efficient and effective and decent organization I've ever encountered.
If you want to see if there is a CCL chapter near you (there is) you can see the list of US and International chapters here. I promise you that not only will you be able to help slow down climate change, but you'll meet some really interesting and warm folks. (There are four chapters in Kentucky, nine in Iowa, over 20 in Ontario, CA, nine in Nigeria.)
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