March - April 2026
The use of AI is a contentious topic in the climate movement. Some of us are deeply concerned about the climate, water, and labor impacts of this growing technology. Some of us are excited about the opportunities to do more good work with our limited resources. Most of us are somewhere in the middle.
To address these questions, the Lab is partnering with Ryann Miller of Spark & Signal and Valerie Ehrlich of Mission Bloom to host a series of six trainings to help climate advocacy organizations move from AI anxiety and ad-hoc use, to building a shared organizational understanding, guide clear decision-making, and implement responsible experimentation.
Training 1:
AI: Climate implications, responsible use, and ethics and values
WEDNESDAY 03/11, 10:00 AM PACIFIC/1:00 PM EASTERN
The use of AI is a highly contentious topic in the climate movement. Some of us are deeply concerned about the climate, water, and labor impacts of this growing technology. Some of us are excited about the opportunities to do more good work with our limited resources. Most of us are somewhere in the middle.
In this first training, we’ll be focusing on the key question: How can climate organizations think about responsible AI usage?
Participants will leave this Lab training being able to:
Identify key climate and environmental factors that often inform AI use in advocacy organizations
Explain why AI use involves real trade-offs
Apply a values lens to think about responsible AI use
Training 2:
AI 101: Getting Started with Tools, Value, and Purpose
TUESDAY 03/17, 10:00 AM PACIFIC/1:00 PM EASTERN
Where do you start with AI when you care about using it responsibly? It begins with understanding what you're actually working with — and getting clear on what matters to you before diving in.
Join us for the second installment of our AI Training Series, which will focus on building a foundational understanding of AI (what generative AI is, how it works, key terms and concepts), exploring the landscape of AI tools and their use cases, learning core prompting principles, and using your personal values and organizational mission to guide how you engage with AI.
No technical background is required, and it is a great introduction for those unsure of where to start with AI.
Participants will leave this training being able to:
Understand core AI concepts, key terms, and the types of tools available
Write effective prompts and begin exploring AI tools with confidence
Articulate their personal values around AI use and how those connect to organizational decisions
Training 3:
Building AI Policy That Actually Works for Your Organization
TUESDAY 03/24, 10:00 AM PACIFIC/1:00 PM EASTERN
Whether your organization has started exploring AI or is still deciding, the question is the same: how does responsible AI use actually show up inside real organizations, day to day?
Join us for the third installment of our AI Training Series, which will focus on understanding the components of effective AI policies and governance structures, facilitating organizational conversations around AI adoption, designing space for experimentation while maintaining guardrails.
Participants will leave this training being able to:
Distinguish between AI policy, guidance, and organizational learning culture
Facilitate conversations with leadership and teams about AI governance
Identify how to balance responsible experimentation with clear organizational guardrails
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/8uoVWuFhSC21a3th5e8RsA
Training 4:
Beyond the Basics: Advanced AI Skills for Real Work
THURSDAY 04/09, 10:00 AM PACIFIC/1:00 PM EASTERN
“Hey ChatGPT, please draft an event promotion blurb for the fourth installment of our AI Training Series, which will focus on advance prompting techniques for generative AI.”
Join us for the fourth installment of our AI Training Series, where we'll move beyond basic prompting into more advanced techniques and practical AI setups. This session will cover how to build persistent AI tools (like Projects, custom GPTs, and Gems) for recurring work and how to choose the right AI approach for different types of tasks.
Participants will leave this training being able to:
Use advanced prompting techniques to get more reliable, nuanced results from AI
Build and manage persistent AI setups (Projects, knowledge bases, custom contexts) for ongoing work
Choose the right AI approach for different tasks — from one-off prompts to integrated workflows
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/vsKZsrasS5GePJH6ubqVjg#/registration
Training 5:
AI in Action: Real Applications for Advocacy and Campaigns
TUESDAY 04/14, 10:00 AM PACIFIC/1:00 PM EASTERN
How can AI supplement your advocacy and campaign work–be it research, communications, organizing, etc? In this training we will look at case studies from other climate & advocacy organizations to help you evaluate if an AI application can serve your campaign goals, and help you design your own AI experiment to integrate into your existing workflows
Join us for the fifth installment of our AI Training Series, which will focus on ways that AI can support advocacy and campaign work in responsible and mission-aligned ways.
Participants will leave this training being able to:
Identify high-value AI use cases for their specific advocacy or campaign work
Design a small AI experiment and integrate it into existing workflows
Assess risks and benefits of AI use in campaign-specific contexts
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/z6rNb_-OSfuyLSPQt4phAw
Training 6:
AI and the Future of Work: What It Means for Your Team
WEDNESDAY 04/22, 10:00 AM PACIFIC/1:00 PM EASTERN
One of the biggest worries with AI is job security. Understandably, people are both worried and confused as accusations are volleyed from either side: AI will reduce work! No, it will increase it! It will support employees! No, it will replace them! Amidst the panic, it’s hard to know how AI will impact the workforce – or how to navigate these changes in ways that center the people doing the work
Join us for the sixth installment of our AI Training Series, which will focus on how AI is impacting organizational staffing and labor in the advocacy sector, and how organizations can approach these changes with workers’ wellbeing and justice at the center.
Participants will leave this training being able to:
Discuss AI and labor impacts with more clarity and less panic
Plan for organizational AI adoption in ways that center worker wellbeing
Engage staff in productive conversations about AI and the future of their work
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/gqCtkNWfSBC16qKSueJQDQ