About us
Are you a conservative who is concerned about the stewardship of Earth?
A college student? A BIPoC activist? All of the above? None of the above?
Citizens' Climate has a place for you!
And the Huntsville chapter wants to be your home base.
For now, the Huntsville CCL Chapter is meeting every month. (This may change starting August for football season.)
First we watch the monthly speaker and national call at 12 noon CT. Then our chapter meeting will follow directly after, about 12:45pm CT. You can find the meeting link and RSVP on our chapter events calendar page, at
http://bit.ly/CCLHSV-Calendar.
More about CCL / CCE:
Citizens’ Climate encompasses the following two organizations:
- Citizens’ Climate Lobby is a non-profit, non-partisan, grassroots advocacy organization focused on national policies to address climate change.
- Citizens’ Climate Education’s mission is to educate the public, media, volunteers and members of Congress on climate change solutions.
We empower people to experience breakthroughs exercising their personal and political power. Citizens' Climate provides training, tools, resources, and coordination to help volunteers become effective advocates for climate solutions. The Huntsville chapter is just one of hundreds of chapters across the world working to build the political will for a livable world.
Interested in solving climate change? You are welcome in Citizens’ Climate. We’re regular people from Alabama who are working together to get climate laws passed. We believe that the only way to tackle climate change is together. We connect over shared concerns, build consensus, and work with elected officials from every party towards climate solutions.
Together, we make a much bigger impact than we could individually by:
- Starting productive conversations about climate solutions in our community
- Getting more people talking about solutions
- Building support for climate action with community leaders
- Meeting with our members of Congress to advocate for effective climate solutions
We are laser focused on a specific legislation and a proven strategy to gain its passage. We are working for the passage of Carbon Fee and Dividend, the climate change solution economists and climate scientists alike say is the “best first-step” to preventing the worst impacts of a warming world.
Our market-based Carbon Fee and Dividend policy will drastically reduce emissions, create jobs, and support small businesses and families — all without growing government.
Our consistently respectful, nonpartisan approach to climate education is designed to create a broad, sustainable foundation to drive climate action across all geographic regions and political inclinations. By building upon shared values rather than partisan divides, and empowering our supporters to work in keeping with the concerns of their local communities, we work towards the adoption of fair, effective, and sustainable climate change solutions.
We’ve seen firsthand how passionate citizens who are well-trained, organized by district and with a good system of support can more than influence the political process.
Come and be a part of it! You can't solve climate change alone - but together, we can. You in?
Upcoming events
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Sallie's Ashes - FREE film screening @ Downtown Huntsville Library
Huntsville-Madison County Public Library, 915 Monroe St SW, Huntsville, AL, USCCL Huntsville chapter is proud to partner with the League of Women Voters Alabama / Tennessee Valley to present a FREE SCREENING of
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Sallie's Ashes
=============a documentary about 80-year-old Alabama grandmother Sallie Smith, facing terminal lung cancer, who rallies fellow grandmas to fight to remove a toxic coal ash pit.
Please register at the Eventbrite link :
http://bit.ly/SalliesAshesHSV
because seating is limited!About the film:
Sallie Smith doesn’t know how to retire.
The 80-year old from Alabama admits "when I see something that's a problem, it tends to call my name... and once it's done that, I need to see it through."
The problem now is threatening her beloved Mobile Bay. Alabama Power's "Plant Barry" -- Southern Alabama's largest power plant -- has been depositing its waste ash into an unlined pit next to the plant for decades. It's a ticking time bomb; if the levees were to be breached, 21 million tons of toxic ash would be released into the Mobile River and Bay.
Sallie recruits fellow retirees Diane Thomas and Savan Wilson to her cause, and together they set off on a late-life crusade to try and force the plant -- and the EPA -- to move the ash to safer ground.
But Sallie is racing against more than one clock. The cancer she once beat has returned and metastasized. With only months to live, can she and her friends pull off one final fight for their community, the Bay, and for the generations to come?
Event Details:
Location: Downtown Huntsville Library Auditorium
Date and time: Thursday, March 12, 5:30-7:30pmAgenda
05:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Pre-screening Social networking06:00 PM - 06:45 PM
Screening of Sallies Ashes documentary06:45 PM - 07:30 PM
Post documentary Conversation with Savan Wilson and Diane ThomasHelp us spread the word so that we can build a sold out audience for environmental awareness.
More buzz, but not linked directly to our event, so repost these + share the link to register: http://bit.ly/SalliesAshesHSV
From the filmmakers:
- https://www.instagram.com/salliesashesfilm/
- https://www.facebook.com/salliesashes
- https://www.salliesashes.com/
- from the actual movement itself
https://www.movetheash.com/about-sallies-ashes - screenings around Alabama (but still share our registration link!)
https://www.movetheash.com/film-screenings
Event description:
FREE FILM SCREENING IN HUNTSVILLEThe award-winning short documentary Sallie's Ashes -- an Oscar qualifying film about an Alabama group's fight to protect Mobile Bay from toxic coal ash. Now showing at film festivals across the US. If 21 million tons of cancer-causing coal ash sludge were spilled into the Tensaw Delta, Mobile Bay would be polluted forever.
Two of the activists featured in this film will be joining us to discuss threats posed by Coal Ash to our waterways.
This is a great networking opportunity for civic, voting, and environmental protection groups!See you there!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/huntsville-screening-of-sallies-ashes-with-discussion-afterwards-tickets-1981975903280?aff=flyer~
Citizens’ Climate Lobby empowers everyday people to bridge divides and build political will for effective climate solutions in Congress. We are committed to advancing federal policies that reduce emissions, remove climate pollution, and protect people.Citizens' Climate Education provides training, tools, resources, and coordination to help volunteers become effective advocates for climate solutions.
Need more details on CCL? Learn more here: CitizensClimateLobby.org or sign up for our intro call cclusa.org/intro
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Postcards with the Environmental Voter Project
Downtown Huntsville Library, 915 Monroe St SW, Meeting Room A, Huntsville, AL, USWe have another opportunity to build political will by encouraging non-voting environmentalists in Pennsylvania to turn up to vote for their May 19th State Primary Election. We will write postcards for CCL partner, the Environmental Voter Project. It's super easy and there's data testifying to the effectiveness.
We will do this Saturday at noon, in person, at the Downtown Huntsville Library. To help us prep materials, please RSVP for this postcard event, and arrive ten minutes early at 11:50am to find the Auditorium (ground floor, right inside the library) and also to get a super fast training at 11:55am before the national call starts.
At noon we will write postcards while watching the CCL national call.
Following that, we will have our Huntsville chapter monthly meeting at 12:45pm.If you have questions, or you don't have a meetup account, you can reach out or RSVP by emailing:
Huntsville {at} CitizensClimateLobby {dot} org~
Citizens' Climate Lobby exists to build the political will for climate solutions by enabling individual breakthroughs in the exercise of personal and political power.
Need more details on CCL? Learn more here: CitizensClimateLobby.org or sign up for our intro call cclusa.org/intro2 attendees
Climate Action Meeting @ Downtown Huntsville Library
Huntsville-Madison County Public Library, 915 Monroe St SW, Huntsville, AL, USOur solution to climate change?
Democracy.Join Citizens' Climate Lobby Huntsville chapter
and take collective action on climate change.
We meet each month on the second Saturday to organize, plan and take actions!Environmentalists and "Non-environmentalists" alike are strongly encouraged to attend!
Where:
Downtown Huntsville Library, Main Auditorium
915 Monroe Street, Huntsville, AL 35801If you have questions or you don't have a meetup account, you can reach out or RSVP by emailing:
Huntsville {at} CitizensClimateLobby {dot} orgRSVPs also let us know who to update if there are any last minute venue changes.
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Citizens' Climate Lobby is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that builds political will for climate solutions by enabling individual breakthroughs in the exercise of personal and political power.
Citizens' Climate Education provides training, tools, resources, and coordination to help volunteers become effective advocates for climate solutions.Need more details on CCL? Learn more here: CitizensClimateLobby.org or sign up for our intro call cclusa.org/intro
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CCL Huntsville - Climate Advocacy Training Workshop
Huntsville Public Library, 3011 Sparkman Dr NW Huntsville, AL 35810 United States,, Huntsville, AL, USYou are invited to a free, CCL Climate Advocacy Training & Group Start led by Citizens' Climate Education / Citizens' Climate Lobby (CCE/CCL), a nonpartisan volunteer group (www.citizensclimatelobby.org) focused on national policies to address climate change.
Getting started with a new organization can be daunting, that’s why we’ve made it easy to get you plugged in with our Climate Advocate Training so you can begin contributing right away. All are welcome to attend.
Climate solutions are a priority, now more than ever. Our goal is to make sure our Senators and Representatives are part of the solution! Join us to:
- Learn the basics of becoming an effective climate advocate
- Review the structure, mission, and purpose of CCL
- Learn how to build constructive relationships with elected representatives
- Review CCL’s methodology of creating political will
- Practice how to appeal to the best in others and build common ground
- Practice how to be part of a Congressional lobby team meeting with your members of Congress
- Understand CCL's legislative policy agenda including carbon pricing, clean energy permitting reform, building electrification and efficiency, and healthy forests.
RSVP at : ClimateHuntsville.eventbrite.com
Conservatives, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color), students, environmentalists, and "non-environmentalists", are all especially encouraged to attend!
Where: North Huntsville Library
Large Community Room 132 (which is on the far side of the library)
3011 Sparkman Drive, Huntsville, AL 35810Where:
North Huntsville Library, Community Meeting Room 132
3011 Sparkman Drive, Huntsville, AL 35810
We will be in the large community room 132 at the opposite end of the library.
When: Saturday May 10, 2024 | 12:00noon to 3:30pm CT
* 9:00am - sign in, refreshments, set up
* 9:05am - begin Climate Advocate Workshop
* 12noon - National speakerThe training will be for two and a half hours with the chance to meet in small groups with a CCL mentor and practice a mock congressional lobby meeting.
Optional but recommended: Stay with us after the training at 12 noon to hear updates from national and watch the speaker.We are looking for VOLUNTEERS for this event! (greeter, promotion, setup/cleanup, food, phone banking, outreach, etc.) If you are interested in helping out, and/or if you have any questions about this event, please attend our March monthly meeting at the Downtown Library, leave a comment below, or reach out to CCL Huntsville leaders by emailing Huntsville at Citizens Climate dot org .
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About CCL
Citizens' Climate Lobby is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that builds political will for climate solutions by enabling individual breakthroughs in the exercise of personal and political power.
Citizens' Climate Education provides training, tools, resources, and coordination to help volunteers become effective advocates for climate solutions.
Learn more here: CitizensClimateLobby.org or sign up for our intro call cclusa.org/intro1 attendee
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