Resources

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

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Tips & How-Tos
01-01-2026

A shared crowdsourced resource for stopping data centers, to support community members and organizers to launch a data center site fight, or join ongoing efforts.

Energy Justice Messaging Guid

Rachel Jacobson and Keecee DeVenny (State Priorities Partnership)
Research & Articles
01-01-2026

This guide is designed to help organizations bring a consumer-centered lens to energy policy debates, and to show how utility regulation, affordability programs, and climate justice intersect with state budgets and economic health. By using this guide, you can frame energy affordability not just as an environmental or technical issue, but as a core economic justice concern, one that directly impacts household stability, community resilience, and long-term, your state’s prosperity.

Recommendations on how to talk about community power, including the opportunity because voters are fed up with skyrocketing bills and. for-profit utility greed and want solution, and a recommended message that “community power” is cheaper, faster, more efficient.

Research & Articles
01-01-2026

A toolkit for advocates and implementers on advancing neighborhood-scale building decarbonization strategies that shift the unit of building decarbonization from the building to the block, from the individual to the community.

Investor-Owned Utilities Messaging Guide

Rachel Jacobson and Keecee DeVenny (State Priorities Partnership)
Research & Articles
01-01-2026

This messaging guide is designed to equip organizations with clear, evidence-driven language to hold IOUs accountable, advocate on behalf of consumers, and demand transparency. Tailor the messaging strategy and sample talking points to fit your state’s context.

Blueprint for Affordable Energy: Working People’s Solutions for Our Energy Future

Mónica Mariko Embrey & Victoria Kaplan (People's Action Institute & United Ratepayers!)
Research & Articles
01-01-2026

This Blueprint for Affordable Energy lays out a plan to lower energy bills, confront the climate crisis, and rein in runaway corporate power.

Research & Articles
01-01-2026

The NAACP has been working with communities across the country that stand to experience the negative impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) data centers. Using policy, the courts, and advocacy, they are committed to making sure the harms to residents and the environment don't outweigh the proposed benefits. This page includes recommendations for protecting frontline communities, community benefit agreement template and resources, and frontline framework community guiding principles.

Katrina20

STEPS Coalition
Research & Articles
11-25-2025

Video, Katrina20, is a twenty year look back on Hurricane Katrina and how communities continue to support each other against climate disasters.

Role model narratives are underutilized in Instagram and TikTok climate action posts

Julia Fine, Joshua Ettinger, Sri Saahitya Uppalapati, John Kotcher, & Edward Maibach Oxford Open Climate Change
Research & Articles
11-19-2025

Role model narratives—stories about specific people taking recommended actions—are a proven communication strategy for encouraging socially beneficial behaviors such as climate action. However, the extent to which climate activists share role model narratives on social media has yet to be investigated. To measure the prevalence of climate action role model narratives on social media, Instagram and TikTok posts tagged with the hashtags #climateaction and #climateactivist (dated between August 2021 and October 2024) were collected and a content analysis of the over 600 posts was conducted.