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Table of Contents
Hotel Floor Plan ................................................................................. 1
Conference Agenda ......................................................................... 2-5
Speaker Biographies ..................................................................... 6-10
Congressional Meeting Report Template ........................................ 11
Lobbying Requests........................................................................... 12
Nearby Restaurants ............................................... Inside Back Cover
Metro Rail/Capitol Hill Maps .......................................... Back Cover
The Liaison Capitol Hill Floor Plan
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Sunday, June 23
9:00-6:00 Registration- Pre-Function Area (AM Coffee & Tea)
9:30-12:30
Group Leader Meeting (Existing Group Leaders)
Metropolitan
12:30-2:00
CCL Group Leader Lunch
Hub/Grid/Hill
2:00-5:00 Group Start Workshop: This session is for CCL members
Metropolitan who have not attended a group start workshop or for new
members who are starting CCL chapters in their communities.
It covers the basics of CCL, how we got started, the CCL
approach & methodology, and advocacy tools that we use.
2:30-5:00
Lower
Senate Park
5:00-6:00
6:30-8:30
Metropolitan
8:45-9:45
Rooftop Pool
Cool Planet Frisbee Play
Head South on New Jersey Ave, left onto D St NW, .2 miles,
destination will be on your right.
Dinner (On Your Own)
Conference Begins: After welcoming remarks, this session
will be devoted to learning and practicing the speaking points
we will use in our meetings on Capitol Hill.
Welcome Reception: Hosted beer/wine/soda bar &
hors d’oeuvres.
Monday, June 24
8:30-6:00
9:00-9:30
Metropolitan
9:30-10:45
Metropolitan
Registration- Pre-Function Area (AM Coffee & Tea)
Opening Remarks
Keynote: “Itinerant Farming to White House Arrests: A
Scientist's View of the Climate Crisis”-Dr. James Hansen:
Former NASA head climate scientist tells the story of his
personal journey from a scientist who was content to do the
research and eschew the spotlight to a concerned citizen who
felt compelled to speak up about policy to address the threat of
catastrophic climate change.
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-12:15 Plenary:“The Case for a Carbon Tax”-Dr. Shi-Ling Hsu:
Metropolitan Why a gradually-rising carbon tax is the least costly and most
effective policy for curbing the pollution driving global
warming, and how enacting such a tax can usher in a new era
of clean energy and efficiency.
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Monday, June 24 Continued
12:30-2:00 Lunch (On Your Own)
12:30-2:00
Major Donor Luncheon (By Invitation)
Unite
2:00-3:00 Breakout Sessions:
Metropolitan “Building the Green Economy”-Joe Robertson:
Center There’s a myth that we have to choose between ecology and
economy, that taking steps to protect the environment and stop
climate change will exact an economic toll. Robertson
explodes that myth and explains how policies to address
climate change will produce jobs and grow our economy.
Hub/Grid “Can We Power the World Without Fossil Fuels?”
-Dr. Danny Richter:
The discussion about clean energy often gets bogged down
with doubts about our ability to meet energy needs. Can it be
done? According to an extensive study out of Stanford
University, the answer is yes, and Danny Richter explains how
it can be done.
Hill “Listening Skills for Activists”-Madeleine Para:
A good listener gains people’s trust, learns what people need
to hear in order to change, and brings people closer together –
just what we need to do with both our members of Congress
and our fellow activists. Brush up your listening skills and
practice them in this workshop.
Metropolitan “Getting Op-eds Published”-Steve Valk:
West If you’re an old pro at getting letters to the editor published in
your newspaper, maybe it’s time to take your media work to
the next level and start publishing op-eds. This workshop will
look at different approaches to writing op-eds and tips that
will improve your chances of getting published.
“Putting the FUN into FUNdraising”-Lynate Pettengill:
Metropolitan
When you think of fundraising, does it sound like fun? Or do
East
you think to yourself, “I’d rather poke a sharp object into my
eye”? This breakout session will take the fear and dread out of
raising money to fund our vision for a livable world, whether
it’s to send local activists to Washington or to grow our
national organizations.
3:00-3:15 Break
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Monday, June 24 Continued
3:15-4:00 Breakout Sessions:
Metropolitan “Getting the Most Out of Social Media”-Steve Valk, Erica
Center Flock & Cathy Orlando:
Twitter and Facebook and Pinterest… Oh my! We all know
it’s important to use social media, but unless you have a
strategy, you’re spinning your wheels. This session will help
you develop a game plan to effectively use online tools to
organize your group, attract new members, and get your
message out.
Metropolitan “Building Relationships with Editorial Boards and
West Congressional Offices”-Elli Sparks:
Want your town's newspaper to speak out for a consumerfriendly carbon tax? Looking for a breakthrough with your
conservative member of Congress? It all turns on relationship.
In this session we’ll share the tools and techniques that CCL
groups have used to build those relationships.
Metropolitan “Peer Support for Climate Activists”-Dr. Jim Driscoll:
East Global warming can scare, anger, and/or discourage us,
causing burnout, too urgent communications and other
ineffective activism. This workshop will teach participants the
tools of peer support to help deal with these feelings in order
to become more effective activists.
Hub/Grid “What the Heck is Pigouvian Taxation?”-Jerry Hinkle &
(till 4:15) Sieren Ernst:
Want to bring conservatives around on a carbon tax? You
need to talk about Pigouvian taxation, the concept of
correcting distortions in the marketplace by taxing things that
are unaccountable for their true cost to society. Become
persuasive by mastering this talking point.
Hill “Why the RESULTS/CCL Model Works”-Sam Daley(till 4:15) Harris:
Something remarkable is going on in CCL. You and your
colleagues are stepping into the action and altering the
conversation around climate. Learn why this model works and
what we must protect in the model to have the ultimate
breakthrough we are committed to.
4:15-4:30 Break
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Monday, June 24 Continued
4:30-5:30 Breakout Sessions:
Metropolitan “Effective Meetings on the Hill”-Emily Enderle and Scott
Stephanou:
Whether you’re meeting with a member of Congress or their
staff, there are things you should do – and things you
shouldn’t do – to ensure having a successful and productive
outcome. Staffers from Capitol Hill will offer their tips and
answer your questions.
Hill “O, Canada!”-Cathy Orlando:
What lies ahead for CCL Canada? This session is for
Canadians to come hear the vision for growing CCL and the
strategic plan to have Ottawa enact a revenue-neutral carbon
tax.
Hub/Grid “The Health Related Impacts of Burning Fossil Fuels”Joel Charles:
Presenting climate change from a human health angle is one
of the most effective messages to spur people to action.
Participants will become literate in the threat climate change
poses to human health, the current health impacts of fossil fuel
use, and the significant, immediate health opportunity
available if we act now on climate change.
Unite Regional Coordinators Meeting – Mark Reynolds:
Strategic meeting for CCL’s regional coordinators.
5:30-7:00 Dinner (On Your Own)
7:00-10:00 CCL Celebration- Come kick up your heels with fellow CCL
Metropolitan Partners.
Tuesday, June 25
8:15 am
9:00-5:00
RHOB
Cafeteria
Photo on Capitol Hill – Location TBA
Congressional and World Bank Lobbying:
Between meetings, CCL staff and volunteers will get together
in the rear of the Rayburn cafeteria to share stories and
encouragement.
7:00-9:00 Lobby Day Reception: Join all our volunteers, special guests,
Metropolitan and members of Congress to celebrate your accomplishments.
Refreshments will be served.
Wednesday-Friday: Additional Lobbying
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“Creating a Climate for Change”
Speaker Biographies
Joel Charles
Joel is a Wisconsin medical student who recently
completed his Masters of Public Health, focusing on the
health impacts of climate change. He is currently finishing
his medical degree with the intention to practice family
medicine while advocating for climate policy. He is
helping build a network to provide physicians with
efficient, effective ways to make health a central piece of
conversation in climate change. He is also organizing an
effort to help climate activists become literate in the health
impacts of climate change. He was awarded the Jack Kent Cooke Graduate
Scholarship in 2009 to pursue his M.D. and Master’s Degree at the
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Sam Daley-Harris
Sam is the CEO and founder of the Center for Citizen
Empowerment and Transformation, which seeks to bring
strategies to organizations so that a segment of their
membership can create champions in Congress and the
media for their causes. In 1980, he founded RESULTS, a
citizen lobby working to end hunger and poverty that later
became the model for CCL. In 1997 he organized the first
Microcredit Summit and managed the Microcredit Summit
Campaign. The Summit’s goal of reaching 100 million of
the world’s poorest families with micro-lending services was surpassed in
2007. This fall, he will release the 20th Anniversary edition of Reclaiming
Our Democracy: Healing the Break Between People and Government, which
includes a new chapter about Citizens Climate Lobby.
Dr. Jim Driscoll
Dr. Driscoll earned his BA and MBA from Harvard (along
with All-East honors in football), his Ph.D. from Cornell in
Organizational Behavior, and has taught at MIT’s Sloan
School of Management. As a decorated combat veteran of
Vietnam, he quit his job as a college professor in 1982 to
work full-time in a variety of social change movements for
the next 22 years. He has helped found and lead a number of
successful state and national organizations including Peace
Action and US Action. In 2004, he launched NIPS, which seeks to make the
tools of peer support broadly available to those seeking to make this a better
world. For the last two years, he has focused exclusively on climate change,
including co-founding the CCL chapter in Tucson, AZ, and is currently
helping expand the chapter in DC (where he and his wife recently moved to
help raise new twin grand-daughters!).
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“Creating a Climate for Change”
Speaker Biographies
Emily Enderle
Emily currently serves as an environmental policy advisor
for U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI). She holds a
Master of Environmental Management from the Yale
School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and a B.A. in
Environmental Studies from Oberlin College.
Sieren Ernst
Sieren has over a decade of experience in development and
environmental markets in the United States, Europe, and
Asia. She has worked for diverse organizations from the
UNDP-GEF to global carbon funds. Her clients have
included innovative start-ups, civil-society organizations,
and commercial investment funds. Sieren is a graduate of
Northwestern University with degrees in economics and
history.
Erica Flock
Erica manages social media and other communications for
the nonprofit EarthShare, a federation of over 500 national
and local environmental groups. She's also provided
marketing support to the National Wildlife Federation,
Rachel's Network, and Citizens Climate Lobby. She recently
started a consultancy, Negwegon Communications that works
to tell compelling stories for the environmental community.
Dr. James Hansen
Dr. Hansen, perhaps best known for bringing global warming
to the world’s attention in the 1980s when he first testified
before Congress, is an adjunct professor at the Department of
Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University
and at Columbia’s Earth Institute and the former director of
the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. He has
appeared on 60 Minutes, ABC News Tonight, Anderson
Cooper, and Charlie Rose; has been interviewed in the New
York Times and profiled in the New Yorker; and has written for the Boston
Globe, the Nation, the New York Review of Books, and Scientific
American. He is the author of Storms of My Grandchildren.
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“Creating a Climate for Change”
Speaker Biographies
Jerry Hinkle
Jerry is ABD in Economics, has a Masters Degree in Climate
Policy, and has several publications in finance and in the
economics of climate policy. He taught economics and
finance for seven years. He is committed to a transformation
in mankind’s relationship to environmental stewardship,
such that we live sustainably. He has given public
presentations for 12 years and lobbied Congress for seven to
forward market-based solutions to climate policy.
Professionally, he has worked as an economist in bank risk management for
the last 30 years. He has served as a Team Leader for CCL for 2 years and
currently serves as the Northern California Regional Coordinator.
Dr. Shi-Ling Hsu
Dr. Hsu is a Professor of Law at the Florida State
University College of Law. Prior to his current
appointment, Professor Hsu was a Professor of Law and
Associate Dean for Special Projects at the University Of
British Columbia Faculty Of Law. He has also served as
Deputy City Attorney for the City and County of San
Francisco. Dr. Hsu has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering
from Columbia University, and a J.D. from Columbia Law
School, M.S. in Ecology and a Ph.D. in Agricultural and
Resource Economics, both from the University of California, Davis. He has
taught in the areas of environmental and natural resource law, law and
economics, quantitative methods, and property. He is the author of The Case
for a Carbon Tax: Getting Past Our Hang-ups to Effective Climate Policy.
Dr. Danny Richter
Dr. Richter is Legislative Director for Citizens Climate
lobby. He earned his doctorate in Oceanography at the
Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of
California, San Diego, in 2013. His research is focused on
iron, zinc, cadmium, copper, aluminum, and phosphorus
incorporation into marine diatoms, a class of phytoplankton
responsible for producing 40% of photosynthesis in the
ocean. His studies have taken him to all 7 continents. Danny
received his B.S. in Environmental Geoscience from the University of Notre
Dame, and his M.S. in Earth Science from UC San Diego.
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“Creating a Climate for Change”
Speaker Biographies
Cathy Orlando
Cathy, National Manager for CCL Canada, is a mother of three
girls ages 6, 16 and 17, partner of Sanjiv Mathur for 27
years, published scientist, educational author, and regular
contributor to both of her local newspapers (The Sudbury Star
and Northern Life). She was formerly the Science Outreach
Coordinator for the Faculty of Science and Engineering at
Laurentian University. A national environmental award was
named for her by Let's Talk Science to honor her work for
environmental protection and science communication. Cathy
was also nominated for a CBC Champion of Change award in
2010 and received a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee
Medal in 2012.
Madeleine Para
Madeleine Para, CCL's Program Director, has helped start
8 CCL chapters in her home state of Wisconsin and is the
group leader for the Madison chapter. Prior to joining the
staff of CCL, she worked as a pre-school and first grade
teacher, which she insists is excellent training for
organizing adults. In addition, she has taught listening
and co-counseling skills to people from all backgrounds
for over 30 years. She lives with her husband and fellow
CCL teammate Glen Ecklund and her 22-year-old son
Ethan in a co-housing community in Madison.
Lynate Pettengill
Lynate, CCL’s Director of Field Development, started the
Lawrence, Kansas, CCL group in 2011 and joined our staff
in the spring of 2013. Before coming to CCL, she worked
as a major donor fundraiser for 20 years for various
nonprofits, including The Nature Conservancy and Sierra
Club. Lynate brings an infectious enthusiasm to CCL, and
she’s determined to infuse FUN into all aspects of our
work, INCLUDING fundraising! Lynate resides in
Lawrence, KS with her 18-year-old son, Ethan, and her
Labrador, Ringo.
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“Creating a Climate for Change”
Speaker Biographies
Joseph Robertson
Joseph is the creator and director of the HotSpring
Network. He is editor-in-chief of the science, technology
and economics-focused periodical, the HotSpring
Quarterly. He is the author of the 2010 report Building a
Green Economy: On the Economics of Carbon Pricing &
the Transition to Clean, Renewable Fuels. He was
Citizens Climate Lobby’s first group leader on the east
coast, and now volunteers as tri-state coordinator for New York, New
Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Since 2009, Joseph has been involved in
Villanova University's vibrant sustainability community. He is one of the
faculty members working to establish the proposed Augustinian Center for a
Just, Sustainable & Resilient World.
Elli Sparks
Elli, CCL’s Development Director, started CCL
Richmond and pioneered several CCL techniques
including relationship building with staff of conservative
members of Congress and editorial page editors
of conservative newspapers. She runs a small family farm
with her husband and children in south central Virginia.
Their farm employs holistic management practices
to enhance the carbon sucking capacities of the land and
feed her family. Elli has worked in non-profit management for twenty years,
specializing in fundraising. Currently, she is working with interns from a
nearby university to establish a group in her new congressional district.
Scott Stephanou
Scott earned a B.A. in Political Science from Quinnipiac
University in Hamden, CT. Prior to joining the staff of U.S.
Congressman John Larson, he worked for a number of
political campaigns such as Senator Evan Bayh's Political
Action Committee, Senator Christopher Dodd's presidential
campaign, and as field director for the campaign of U.S.
Congressman Jim Himes. Since 2009, he has worked for
Congressman Larson as a legislative assistant, advising him
on issues such as energy, environment, transportation, Social
Security, telecommunications, and government oversight.
Steve Valk
Steve is Communications Director and Regional Manager
for CCL. He trains and supports volunteers to get published
in their local newspapers and to develop relationships with
their members of Congress. He joined the CCL staff in
2009 after a 30-year career with the Atlanta JournalConstitution. He has worked as a media consultant for
RESULTS. Steve blogs for Citizens Climate Lobby on
Huffington Post and his writings on climate change have
appeared in newspapers throughout the US.
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Congressional Meeting Report Template
Member of Congress Name: (Last Name, First Name)
State/District: (i.e. MA SR, MA JR, MA01, MA02)
Date/Time: (Month, Day, Year, Time)
Location: (DC Office)
CCL Meeting Leader: (Last Name, First Name)
Minute Taker: (Last Name, First Name)
Congress Member and Staff Present: (Last Name, First Name)
Was this a “Face to Face” meeting with Congress member? Yes No
Delivery of materials only?
Citizens Climate Lobby members present: (Last Name, First Name)
Main Discussion Points:
Include Congress members’ concerns, questions, comments
**** Who does the Congress Member work with across the aisle?****
Handouts given at meeting:
Duration of meeting:
Follow- up assignment & dates:
Information to send? Action steps to build support? Next meeting?
After the meeting:
Specifics to mention in a thank you note to the Congress person or staff?
CCL meeting leader: Take the report today to CCL staff for photo-scanning
the day of your meeting.
amy.bennett@citizensclimatelobby.org
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Hill Requests
Introduce or support a bill for a steadily-rising fee/tax on carbon-based fuels
that returns all revenue to households.
With the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reaching 400
parts per million this year – a level not seen since long before humans existed
and sea levels were 60 feet higher – it becomes clear that steps must be taken
to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The largest market failure in the history of humanity is the under-pricing of
fossil fuels. This costs American jobs, since wind, solar, and biomass
generate 2.5 - 9.25 times as many jobs as coal, oil, and gas for every $1
million contribution to GDP.
Citizens Climate Lobby believes the best solution – one that can find
common ground with both Republicans and Democrats – is a revenue-neutral
carbon tax that returns proceeds to households.
Such legislation should:
 Tax carbon-based fuels upstream, at the first point of sale.
 Increase the tax at a pace that motivates the emissions reductions
necessary to avoid catastrophic consequences.
 Protect low- and middle-income households from increased energy
costs associated with the carbon tax.
 Protect American businesses with border adjustment tariffs that also
encourage other nations to adopt equivalent carbon pricing.
HOUSE REQUEST
There are several options to support
such legislation. Which of the
following would be appropriate for
your office?
 Republicans can meet to draft
their own revenue-neutral
carbon fee/tax bill.
 Talk to members of Congress
who are developing carbon
fee/tax bills -- Rep. John Larson
or Rep. Henry Waxman/Earl
Blumenauer.
 For all House members, insist
that any bill be 100% revenue
neutral, and that the tax reaches
at least $100 per ton of CO2
within 10 years.
SENATE REQUEST
There are several options to support
such legislation. Which of the
following would be appropriate for
your office?
 Talk to Sen. Whitehouse or Sen.
Schatz about the bill they are
drafting and consider
sponsoring.
 Talk to Sen. Boxer or Sen.
Sanders about co-sponsoring the
Climate Protection Act (S.332).
 Republicans can meet to draft
their own carbon tax bill.
 For all senators, insist that any
bill be 100% revenue neutral,
and that the tax reaches at least
$100 per ton of CO2 within 10
years.