Katrina20
Video, Katrina20, is a twenty year look back on Hurricane Katrina and how communities continue to support each other against climate disasters.
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Katrina20
Video, Katrina20, is a twenty year look back on Hurricane Katrina and how communities continue to support each other against climate disasters.
Accelerate Climate Action with Behavior Change [Climate Week 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.
Engaging with Climate Change: How We Think about Engagement
This report assembles an overview of the schools of thought informing our current conceptions about engaging people with climate change. In much of the thinking today, people's behavior is often seen as a barrier to overcome, a target for carrots and sticks, or an opportunity to engineer a better result. "Engagement" implies a deeper connection between people and climate change, and so offers a further step toward addressing the risks. It is clear that climate change will not be mitigated effectively unless more people are far more engaged in doing things differently.
Nothing About Us Without Us: Community Conversations About Offshore Wind
People’s Action Institute worked with member affiliates New Jersey Resource Project (NJRP) and Maine People’s Resource Center (MPRC) to conduct two deep canvassing projects focused on building community support for offshore wind power development. In the Spring and early Summer of 2024, canvassers from these organizations held conversations with over 1,400 local residents in Lacey Township, NJ and the Midcoast region of Maine combined.
Climate Justice Microgrants: Insights & Reflections from the Program’s First Five Years
Since 2018, the Climate Advocacy Lab has distributed Climate Justice Microgrants to 25 environmental justice and climate justice organizations around the United States who are doing powerful work to protect and improve their communities.
Failing to Save the Earth
This is a revolutionary dual-tool for frontline organizers who wish to achieve greater effectiveness by facing potential failures head-on. Forget the old concept of movement “wins” or “losses,” this podcast and guide-booklet are an invitation to rethink our relationship with the definition of failure when working to create social change. Learn from the L’eau Est La Vie resistance camp leadership and their epic, yet “unsuccessful,” campaign to stop the Bayou Bridge pipeline. Determine powerful leverage points within your struggle. Listen to the veteran frontline water and land protectors, get inspired, and then prepare to follow the additional step-by-step printed guide-booklet. Learn how to design your own plan for artful and effective failing, and also find out the one way that you will most certainly fail when working to stop social and environmental injustices.
Groundwork Climate Advisory Group Toolkit
Climate Safe Neighborhoods is a national effort through Groundwork USA to identify neighborhoods that are more vulnerable to the effects of climate change because of racial and social injustices, spread awareness and educate res
Blueprint for a Multiracial, Cross-Class Climate Movement: The Workbook for Coalitions (Second Edition)
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.