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Rising Tides of Concern: Why the Next Year Holds the Key to Our Climate Future

2023-12-04T18:32:19+00:00December 1st, 2023|Actions You Can Take, Climate politics, Climate Strategy, Reasons for Acting|

I have a confession. I read eclectically, and a portion of what I read is absurd. I am fascinated by Bigfoot, aliens, and Elvis. It’s not that I believe in Bigfoot or aliens, but I am curious this may be a reality for others. I guess it makes me [...]

We’re Losing the Climate War to Fossil Fuel Corporations and Republican Extremists, and We Don’t Even Know It

2023-08-09T15:58:58+00:00August 9th, 2023|Actions You Can Take, Climate Communications, Climate politics, Identity|

According to Anthony Leiserowitz, Director of the of the Yale Project of Climate Communication, “We are in a propaganda war with the fossil fuel industry, but we aren’t even on the battlefield.” To which I will add, that we don’t even know we’re in a war, or if we [...]

We Have the Word “Drought” All Wrong

2022-05-26T17:18:16+00:00May 26th, 2022|Actions You Can Take, Climate Change, Climate Communications, Environmental Messaging|

I was in the great Southwest in April. I drove north up 84 toward Las Vegas, New Mexico glad to finally have a 40 mph tailwind. Halfway there, I ran into a tumbleweed storm. Hundreds of dusty rolling aliens flying across the road like some herd of strange frightened [...]

Bigfoot and Jackalope – Moving Beyond Reactive Climate Campaigns

2021-10-20T14:56:54+00:00October 10th, 2021|Actions You Can Take, Climate Communications, Climate politics, Climate Strategy|

Let’s say we wake up and find out that Jackalope are going extinct because they are being eaten by Bigfoot. After all, they are a favorite delicacy of Bigfoot. What do we do? We probably start a Save the Jackalope campaign... of course. We have to make people aware [...]

The Reconciliation Bill: Can You Overcome These 3 Climate Messaging Mistakes?

2021-09-26T17:11:32+00:00September 25th, 2021|Actions You Can Take, Climate Communications, Environmental Messaging|

What is the Reconciliation bill, what’s in it, and can we afford it? Once again, the Left and climate champions missed the messaging on the “$3.5T Reconciliation Bill,” and it may be DOA, primarily because of 3 mistakes. The Right didn’t have to spend much effort to do this, [...]

Thelma and Louise, Personal Action, and Climate Responsibility

2021-06-23T19:23:21+00:00June 20th, 2021|Actions You Can Take, Climate Change Denial and Misinformation, Framing, Reasons for Acting|

My next personal act of climate responsibility is to limit my driving to no more than 6,000 miles per year. For those without cars this may still seem like a lot. I'd rather not have to use a car. Maybe this will be hard? We’ll see. In December of [...]

Do I Smell a New Methane Gas Frame Being Created?

2023-02-15T17:58:53+00:00January 29th, 2021|Actions You Can Take, Climate Communications, Climate politics, Climate Strategy, Environmental Messaging|

Natural Gas, Fossil Gas, or Methane… Which Should We Use? Reality and truth should be bedrocks in climate communications, but what we believe often informs reality. Words influence these beliefs and thus our collective reality. Choose words that unconsciously activate the wrong neurons in the brains of our audience [...]

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