Labor unions increasingly support carbon pricing, recognizing its potential to drive business innovation and job creation. Join us to explore this policy and learn how to build relationships with

Labor unions increasingly support carbon pricing, recognizing its potential to drive business innovation and job creation. Join us to explore this policy and learn how to build relationships with labor unions.

Our speakers include John Braxton, Co-President Emeritus of AFT Local 2026 and a founder of US Labor Against the War, who helped originate AFT's climate change resolutions. Peter Knowlton, former General President of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), brings 35 years of union leadership. Keon Liberato is President & Principal Officer of BMWED-IBT Local 3012. Arlene Grant, an artist and founder of ArlieSpeaks Media, has extensive experience in labor and employment disputes, and actively promotes environmental and social justice.

Climate change already impacts wildlife habitats, hunting, and fishing. Organizations like Conservation Hawks and Trout Unlimited empower outdoorsmen to advocate for climate solutions, ensuring

Climate change already impacts wildlife habitats, hunting, and fishing. Organizations like Conservation Hawks and Trout Unlimited empower outdoorsmen to advocate for climate solutions, ensuring environmental conservation for future generations.

Todd Tanner, President & Founder of Conservation Hawks, engages America’s 40 million anglers and hunters on climate change. Brian Wagner, a Trout Unlimited leader, serves on the National Leadership Council's Climate Change work group and coordinates youth education.

Drew Eyerly, CCL Conservative Outreach Director, lends a conservative voice to climate solutions, recruiting right-of-center individuals. He previously served in the U.S. Army. Find his full bio: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/?team=andrew-eyerly

Peterson Toscano, host of Citizens’ Climate Radio, facilitates a workshop helping you connect unique life experiences to future steps. A mind-expanding time-travel exercise frees imagination to

Peterson Toscano, host of Citizens’ Climate Radio, facilitates a workshop helping you connect unique life experiences to future steps. A mind-expanding time-travel exercise frees imagination to consider new solutions for personal growth and societal challenges.

Interactive prompts guide attendees to reflect on post-pandemic hopes, personal adaptations, and how to leverage passions for climate action, community protection, and resilience. A future-gazing exercise encourages envisioning life in 2030, fostering long-term vision and commitment.

Further resources include links on pandemic experiences, LGBTQ youth homelessness, unleashing imagination, climate adaptation, Peterson’s storytelling workshop, and the Future Protocol.

Doreen Orishaba, who helped build Africa's first electric car in 2011, now operates electric buses across Kenya and Rwanda, moving thousands daily on zero-exhaust vehicles. In her TED Countdown

Doreen Orishaba, who helped build Africa's first electric car in 2011, now operates electric buses across Kenya and Rwanda, moving thousands daily on zero-exhaust vehicles. In her TED Countdown Summit 2025 talk (recorded June 18, 2025), she explains how to scale clean transport and why electric vehicles are closer than you think. Watch her talk: https://go.ted.com/doreenorishaba

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This Summit21 session, live-streamed on June 10, 2021, featured leaders discussing systems-level change. Lucy Parker, Mariana Mazzucato, and James Quincey explored implementation strategies. Jyrki

This Summit21 session, live-streamed on June 10, 2021, featured leaders discussing systems-level change. Lucy Parker, Mariana Mazzucato, and James Quincey explored implementation strategies. Jyrki Katainen then highlighted ongoing transformations and market evolution. Finally, David Rotman, Alan Aspuru-Guzik, and Sheila Kennedy looked to the future, examining AI and advanced manufacturing's role in eliminating ecosystem destruction.

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On June 27, 2022, a discussion explored Blue Shield's latest Youth Climate Survey, focusing on how climate change impacts the mental health of young people.

The event featured insights

On June 27, 2022, a discussion explored Blue Shield's latest Youth Climate Survey, focusing on how climate change impacts the mental health of young people.

The event featured insights from David W. Bond (Director of Behavioral Health, Blue Shield of California—Promise Health Plan), youth environmental activist Kat Lee (APEN), and student representative Maya Gomez (Mind Out Loud, Whitney High School). Additional speakers included Antoinette Mayer (Senior Director, Corporate Citizenship, Blue Shield), Joel Castro (President, Cesar Chavez Service Club), and co-host Michelle Meow (Producer and Host, "The Michelle Meow Show").

Business support for climate action can significantly influence Congress. Join CCL volunteers Steffi Rausch and Alex Amonette to learn how to build relationships with businesses and chambers of

Business support for climate action can significantly influence Congress. Join CCL volunteers Steffi Rausch and Alex Amonette to learn how to build relationships with businesses and chambers of commerce, secure endorsements, and advance advocacy efforts.

Steffi, an Asheville CCL lead and co-lead of national campaigns, has secured over 100 endorsements. Alex, a long-time CCL volunteer and Chamber of Commerce member, offers practical business engagement insights. Kyle Kammien, CCL Senior Business Relations Representative, builds crucial business coalitions supporting CCL's policy goals. His full bio is available here.

The Energy Innovation Act is projected to save 4.5 million American lives over 50 years by reducing pollution. Dr. Susan Pacheco and Dr. Lori Byron will discuss the health community's growing

The Energy Innovation Act is projected to save 4.5 million American lives over 50 years by reducing pollution. Dr. Susan Pacheco and Dr. Lori Byron will discuss the health community's growing support for a carbon price.

Dr. Pacheco, a Professor of Pediatrics and expert in climate change and children's health, brings insights from her work with the AAP and AAAAI. Dr. Byron, a pediatrician and CCL Health Action Team Co-leader, has extensive experience in pediatric climate advocacy and energy policy, including her role on the EPA's Children's Health Advisory Committee.

Associated presentation slides: Climate Change and Health: The Price of Carbon

This solution tackles pollution, water waste, and aesthetic problems of surface parking lots in Portland, Oregon. Inspired by NPR's "Building Sponge City" concept (January 2015), the content was

This solution tackles pollution, water waste, and aesthetic problems of surface parking lots in Portland, Oregon. Inspired by NPR's "Building Sponge City" concept (January 2015), the content was curated by Ruth Ann Barrett of EarthSayers.tv.

A multidisciplinary team developed this initiative, including Mary Vogel of PlanGreen (Regenerating Communities), Kelli A. Grover of Firwood Design Group (Surveying, Engineering, Planning), Maria Cahill of Green Girl Land Development Solutions (Cost-Effective Storm Water Infrastructure), Suenn Ho of Resolve Architecture (Architectural and Urban Design), and Marianne Zarkin (Landscape Architects).

Summit 21's second session, live-streamed in June 2021, explored growth in a circular economy. Discussions featured Dame Ellen MacArthur, Wolfgang Blau, Chile’s Environment Minister Carolina

Summit 21's second session, live-streamed in June 2021, explored growth in a circular economy. Discussions featured Dame Ellen MacArthur, Wolfgang Blau, Chile’s Environment Minister Carolina Schmidt, and a panel on circular economy investment with leaders from Morgan Stanley and BlackRock. H&M also shared insights on redesigning global supply chains for sustainable, inclusive growth.

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