WEBVTT 42 00:10:09.520 --> 00:10:17.800 Madeleine Para: Hello, everybody! This is Madeline Para. I'm your executive director, and I am honored to get to host the call today. 43 00:10:18.170 --> 00:10:31.660 Madeleine Para: If if you've never watched our pre conference Video: that just finished, I encourage you to check it out from community. I i'm just always really jazzed every time I watch and see all the videos and all the things that are said on that. 44 00:10:32.440 --> 00:10:46.070 Madeleine Para: So I had to divert into that. But mostly I want to start our meeting today by acknowledging that this call is happening on a weekend when lots of people are gathering with their families for Easter for Passover. 45 00:10:46.250 --> 00:10:59.530 Madeleine Para: and I just want to wish everybody across all faiths and traditions, good times with your family, and in whatever traditions that you celebrate, and deep connections to the values that sustain you through those 46 00:10:59.840 --> 00:11:17.510 Madeleine Para: we're carrying on the call today, even though it's on this particular weekend, because we trust that you'll use this resource at the time, and in the way. That's right for you and for your group. So I do expect that some groups have changed when they're meeting this week, and you know that's totally fine whether you're listening, live, or watching the recording. 47 00:11:17.680 --> 00:11:20.910 Madeleine Para: Our goal with the call here with this meeting is 48 00:11:20.950 --> 00:11:29.930 Madeleine Para: to provide a resource to you and and basically to make manifest for all of us that we're part of a national team. 49 00:11:30.400 --> 00:11:34.650 Madeleine Para: You know we're tackling a problem that's just so much bigger than 50 00:11:35.030 --> 00:11:42.170 Madeleine Para: than any one of us, you know. And so it's a reminder that none of us is tackling this problem by ourselves. 51 00:11:42.590 --> 00:11:57.570 Madeleine Para: So in the meeting we get to hear from people outside the organization who are doing good work and also tackling climate change. and we get to celebrate what we got done each month, and we put attention on how the work in your communities and chapters moves us forward on our national goals. 52 00:11:57.730 --> 00:12:03.650 Madeleine Para: So welcome again in whatever way you're able to participate in the meeting, and it's supporting the work of Ccl. 53 00:12:04.720 --> 00:12:11.990 Madeleine Para: So i'm excited about our guest today. It's Ka. Hendrickson, and she's a director at future 500 54 00:12:12.050 --> 00:12:20.910 Madeleine Para: Isa works to build bridges between people and groups that are at odds or even in conflict. sounds a little bit like us. 55 00:12:20.970 --> 00:12:34.680 Madeleine Para: She's currently collaborating on several projects, one of which includes Ccl. Coordinators, non governmental organizations and community representatives in the southeast, on a utility stakeholder information exchange 56 00:12:34.950 --> 00:12:46.780 Madeleine Para: before joining future 500 kaiser worked on stakeholder engagement with the largest solar incentive program in the country, posing the gap between who has access to and who benefits from sustainable energy. 57 00:12:46.940 --> 00:12:48.780 Madeleine Para: So welcome. 58 00:12:49.120 --> 00:12:57.220 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: Well, good morning, Madeline. The like. I'll just be here and excited to talk to you. And I was so jowsed by that Video: yeah, isn't that something. 59 00:12:57.240 --> 00:13:20.680 Madeleine Para: Okay. So first of all. what is future? 500 tell us about that. It's taken me a while to figure it out. And what do you do with it? We get asked that question a lot. We are a very small boutique consulting group, but we're actually a nonprofit consulting group, and how that started is back in the nineties. Our founder at Bill Shireman, who's also known as Bottle Bill, because he helped pass the bottle. Bill in California 60 00:13:20.680 --> 00:13:34.500 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: was doing ended up doing work between the rainforest action network and it's B cooperation around advocacy and campaigns that rainforests that work was launching against distribution regarding deforestation in their supply chain. 61 00:13:34.640 --> 00:13:47.860 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: he managed to get both groups together, find the right people in the room who would be willing to have conversations and essentially help them mediate over the course of several months, a an outcome in a new Forestry 62 00:13:48.160 --> 00:13:55.900 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: forestry commitment from the to be she that was agreed on by both groups, and so from there he saw the opportunity that you know, instead of 63 00:13:56.050 --> 00:14:14.030 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: companies and advocates always being at at odds with one another, that there's a lot more we can do if we can work together sound familiar. And so he started future 500 as an organization who focuses on engaging with corporations, particularly large multinational corporations, so sometimes the ones that are 64 00:14:14.140 --> 00:14:31.610 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: at the most negatively and helping them understand their advocates, their activists, their stakeholders. So along what's called stakeholder capitalism now and then helping those companies actually build bridges with their advocates and stakeholder groups, knowing that that can help prevent a lot of work. 65 00:14:31.740 --> 00:14:42.800 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: Sometimes we work with companies more reactively, but we generally try to work with companies proactively, so that they can be talking to their stakeholders. particularly because oftentimes we find that these groups Don't speak the same language. 66 00:14:42.870 --> 00:14:56.150 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: so they think they both hate each other just on pure principle of wanting to destroy the planet and on just hating corporations and hating capitalism. So we do a lot of kind of bridge building there to to help both groups kind of come together, and when we say 67 00:14:56.190 --> 00:15:03.900 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: stakeholders, we mean activists, investors, philanthropists. It's a kind of a broad range of people that can be stakeholders. 68 00:15:03.940 --> 00:15:20.900 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: And so, when I do a future 500, because I come from a background. Conflict, resolution, as well as environmental policy is, I advise and work with all of our utilities. So I work with large utilities across the country to understand what their stakeholders are so helping them, kind of coaching them internally on 69 00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:31.530 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: what are sick of their issues? Why Are they asking me about a just energy transition when I'm just focused on the energy transition and helping them understand which stakeholders they can be talking to in building relationships with. 70 00:15:31.740 --> 00:15:39.930 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: So I I do a lot of kind of coaching. I get to bring in some of my justice and conflict resolution, background, and the relationships between people all the time. 71 00:15:41.040 --> 00:15:41.900 Madeleine Para: Of 72 00:15:42.240 --> 00:15:56.300 Madeleine Para: Wow! That that's very, very, very interesting. I I want to mention it. Maybe you can lean in again a little bit more, because we take a little feedback that your audio is not quite as clear or or just 73 00:15:56.390 --> 00:16:12.880 Madeleine Para: talk a little louder. That might help people. 74 00:16:14.300 --> 00:16:29.570 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: Well, ironically. It was in my last position, working for the solar on multi-family affordable housing program, or soma which again was the largest solar incentive program. When it came out, and that program was run by nonprofits in the State of California to create solar access. 75 00:16:29.630 --> 00:16:33.220 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: and the program itself 76 00:16:33.240 --> 00:16:51.250 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: was required. A lot of stakeholder engagement, and that required getting buy in from people across the state, from community groups, from local governments, from community based organizations. And so I ended up taking over that part of the role, and just fell in love with it 77 00:16:51.250 --> 00:16:54.720 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: because a lot of people had mistrust over the 78 00:16:55.150 --> 00:17:05.480 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: what an incentive program was for why it would be helping them. So what I ended up doing was taking what I thought was something I could never get paid to do, which is building relationships 79 00:17:05.550 --> 00:17:10.990 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: and took my knowledge of energy and then used that to build relationships across the program. 80 00:17:11.089 --> 00:17:24.670 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: And within 6 months we had some really big partnerships. We had a lot of collaboration between California's public utilities and the stakeholder groups across the State to help promote this program. 81 00:17:24.730 --> 00:17:33.070 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: And so, when future 500 opened up an opportunity. I was more than thrilled to come in, particularly because it's focused on bridge building, which is what 82 00:17:33.310 --> 00:17:39.700 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: Ccl. Appeals to me for, because I grew up in Utah. I grew up in an area where there's not a whole lot of 83 00:17:40.900 --> 00:17:46.430 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: positive interactions between environmental groups and the government. And so I have 84 00:17:46.960 --> 00:17:49.360 grown up being in this intermediate area. 85 00:17:49.380 --> 00:17:57.150 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: so that really appeals to me about both what Ccl. Does and what future 500 does in terms of getting people to unite around. What matters to them? 86 00:17:59.800 --> 00:18:01.960 Madeleine Para: Do you have any 87 00:18:02.260 --> 00:18:12.540 Madeleine Para: favorite stories of how you got people to understand each other? Because, you know we're constantly trying to figure this out. 88 00:18:12.860 --> 00:18:23.700 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: I can share a few of them actually. So. The first one i'll share is actually when it happened before I joined Future 500, but is, I think, just a fantastic story that gets into 89 00:18:24.470 --> 00:18:38.010 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: not just successes, but also some of the learning lessons around doing this kind of work, which is that it takes time and so future 500 in the past. One of our clients was a large oil and gas company, and sometimes our team said 90 00:18:38.350 --> 00:18:46.720 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: it feels like we're getting nowhere. We try to connect them to stakeholders. We've built some relationships, but we're just not seeing any changes. 91 00:18:46.840 --> 00:18:55.040 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: and then probably about a few years, into the relationship. We got a call from a a C-suite person at this oil and gas company, saying. 92 00:18:56.120 --> 00:19:06.430 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: I just got a call from someone from a large environmental Ngo group saying they were about to launch a campaign against us on a particular topic. We were able to resolve the whole thing before the campaign launched. 93 00:19:06.580 --> 00:19:16.560 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: because we didn't know it was an issue. It wasn't something we prioritized, but because you helped us build that relationship with this Ngo. They felt comfortable reaching out to us in advance, saying, hey. 94 00:19:16.870 --> 00:19:24.760 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: we're really unhappy with something you're doing. We want to get you to change your behavior. And they said, okay, great, we'll change our behavior. 95 00:19:24.940 --> 00:19:30.480 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: So that's something. Again. That took years. It took time. It took a lot of relationship building, but 96 00:19:30.620 --> 00:19:38.330 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: that large oil company and that large Ngo were able to prevent something and change the company's behavior. 97 00:19:38.380 --> 00:19:41.560 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: which I the best that we can ask for. 98 00:19:43.230 --> 00:19:49.310 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: So that's one that i'll share another one. I just have to. That's fascinating because 99 00:19:49.460 --> 00:20:01.290 Madeleine Para: you it bore fruit in unexpected ways later. And and that's part of the power of it of what you're doing there. But you can't predict it. 100 00:20:01.990 --> 00:20:10.990 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: You definitely can't predict it, and we even found out later from from the same company that they said, working with us, helped shift their culture, which is 101 00:20:12.130 --> 00:20:26.580 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: bind blowing to get to here, but is also so valuable, and the person who who shared that feedback who I've spoken to said, You know it took time. A lot of people in our company didn't see any value in engaging our stakeholders. 102 00:20:26.580 --> 00:20:44.830 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: They thought they're just there to be an annoying fly in our ear to just pester us. Why bother? And and in taking time to work with us, and to see the outcomes that can happen from building relationships, from being open to having conversations with stakeholders; that these 103 00:20:44.900 --> 00:20:52.640 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: the the whole company was able to kind of shift their perspective on the importance of stakeholders. So they got ahead on the stakeholder capitalism front. 104 00:20:53.100 --> 00:20:59.940 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: So one of the the other really great examples. That is, one that I'm actually working on now is with a large utility. 105 00:20:59.970 --> 00:21:05.130 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: and they even in some of the smallest ways. So this is going to sound. 106 00:21:05.490 --> 00:21:17.420 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: Maybe not like the most exciting things have gotten through. But there were some large issues coming up around environmental justice, and they approached us and said, You know, why does this one particular concern matter? 107 00:21:18.250 --> 00:21:36.910 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: I got to pull into my master's degree to use some of the information I've done in the past, and really explained to them where this group was coming from, why environmental justice was a bigger issue in this area and actually got to refocus part of our entire meeting series with them, based on this feedback and helping the company understand 108 00:21:37.570 --> 00:21:50.660 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: why this mattered, and why, ignoring it would be an even worse decision. So it it was a a really cool, successful moment, even if it was small. But again, that goes towards company-wide culture and change. 109 00:21:53.420 --> 00:21:59.430 Madeleine Para: I love these stories, and and it brings my mind into like the nitty gritty like 110 00:21:59.530 --> 00:22:00.640 Madeleine Para: I. 111 00:22:01.010 --> 00:22:03.850 Madeleine Para: So I on a like 112 00:22:03.970 --> 00:22:19.230 Madeleine Para: day to day thing, you know, like in one case i'm sort of imagining, like maybe people are sitting in a circle talking to each other, and you're facilitating it. And then another case it's like they're on the phone talking to you, or something like like what it what is the like? 113 00:22:19.250 --> 00:22:30.340 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: The the real like the nitty gritty of like, how do you do this? I'll start with a few different examples or kind of pathways that this works. 114 00:22:30.460 --> 00:22:34.180 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: The first one was common. One is companies come to us, and they say 115 00:22:35.470 --> 00:22:37.010 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: someone says, mad at us. 116 00:22:37.120 --> 00:22:53.150 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: Why are they mad? And so we sit down and have a conversation, and they explain. Because we're we're kind of an expert generalist team. So one of my colleagues is really a specialist, more on the plastic side. I'm more specialist on the energy side, and we see, and we are all specialists in knowing 117 00:22:53.150 --> 00:23:08.470 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: who are the activist investors in here. What are activist investors talking about? Who are the Ngo advocates who are the community based organizations. And so in that instance, say the the company comes to us. We sit down and and talk about okay. 118 00:23:08.630 --> 00:23:19.780 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: which groups are you talking to? Who are you engaging with? Are you actually engaging with them, or are you in or ignoring them? Are you just relying on Pr. Which is also not relationship building that is very different. 119 00:23:19.840 --> 00:23:26.200 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: And and so we. So a lot of it is just kind of that coaching conversations with the clients, and that takes months 120 00:23:26.230 --> 00:23:34.760 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: that takes, and and oftentimes instances that can take years depending on the organization, because sometimes we're working with someone who is. 121 00:23:34.810 --> 00:23:43.660 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: and what I like to call an entrepreneur, someone who's trying to make change from within the organization, but who may not have leadership support for engaging with stakeholders 122 00:23:44.220 --> 00:23:45.940 and other times we are working with 123 00:23:46.130 --> 00:23:50.120 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: to sustainability officers or chief operations, officers. 124 00:23:50.280 --> 00:24:00.820 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: and in those instances it's kind of more direct where they have immediate influence to get change in the company, or get buy-in and willingness to engage with stakeholders 125 00:24:01.120 --> 00:24:05.740 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: and and so i'll. I'll use the example of a large 126 00:24:05.790 --> 00:24:12.380 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: very large utility out of the southeast that we've been working with now for 12 years, and they came to us 12 years ago and said. 127 00:24:12.850 --> 00:24:14.110 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: we're having just 128 00:24:14.450 --> 00:24:27.170 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: like shareholder resolution after shareholder resolution. Our activists are coming after us. It's just terrible. And so our our team sat down with their CEO and developed an annual forum 129 00:24:27.360 --> 00:24:46.870 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: between where they invited they selected a group of investor or activist investors, community, based organizations, Ngos, and to come into a room and meet with the CEO and a few of the team members, and give them direct feedback on what they wanted to see the company do differently. How the company was forming 130 00:24:47.430 --> 00:24:57.790 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: particular groups. How their actions were were causing pollution, or how many environment. and the outcome from that was within a few years their shareholder resolutions completely dipped. 131 00:24:57.950 --> 00:25:08.860 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: The company is still doing it now 12 years later, and we still have a relationship with the CEO, who very vociferously advocates to other Ceos about the importance of 132 00:25:08.890 --> 00:25:19.960 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: having these relationships and conversations, and the best part is, he says they're going to say things you don't like. They're going to say things that are going to hurt, and we're going to make you feel bad about your company. 133 00:25:20.270 --> 00:25:22.280 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: But that's where the dialogue starts. 134 00:25:22.340 --> 00:25:34.810 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: and over the course of the years we've been working with them we've had to do a lot of coaching with their team on. How do you accept feedback? That's not going to feel good. How do you still be? How do you remove the personal from this situation? 135 00:25:34.860 --> 00:25:46.170 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: How do you still engage positively? And how do you keep those relationships going on. How do you build accountability? So that's one of our our best success Stories of kind of the nitty gritty. 136 00:25:46.170 --> 00:25:55.770 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: So it involved a lot of coaching a lot of mentoring, and then we actually facilitated and mediated all of their meetings, and continue to as a third party. 137 00:25:55.850 --> 00:26:03.610 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: And so my day involves a bit of mediating a bit of on that phone kind of coaching. Call a bit of talking to stakeholders to get feedback on 138 00:26:03.880 --> 00:26:06.830 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: their perspective. We Don't. Just rely on the company's perspective. 139 00:26:08.870 --> 00:26:20.110 Madeleine Para: Again I find this fascinating. So here you're talking about a situation, I think, where activists did, what activists do. 140 00:26:20.190 --> 00:26:29.430 Madeleine Para: using a variety of techniques, and and it eventually I i'm. I'm. Putting this out to see if I've got it. 141 00:26:29.610 --> 00:26:34.980 Madeleine Para: It motivated the company, but but but often that's out of the public eye. 142 00:26:35.110 --> 00:26:41.460 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: Yes, that that's one of the things that's interesting Here, like your role is, is mostly out of the public eye. 143 00:26:41.530 --> 00:26:51.240 Madeleine Para: but the activists were necessary part of this to motivate the company. but maybe without a go between it's hard to make progress 144 00:26:53.470 --> 00:27:01.430 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: more than anything. That is what we we hear is is that the activists are like I don't I don't know how to break in. They won't. Listen to us. They won't 145 00:27:01.580 --> 00:27:08.890 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: come to to the table. And how do we know that there's good faith, and that comes from? We hear that from both the companies and the stakeholders? That 146 00:27:09.430 --> 00:27:24.500 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: why would I trust them? They're just going to immediately go out to the to the media and publish something about us or the stakeholders think this is just to find ways to exploit the situation. And so part of that is, we we host every gathering, every interaction we have under Chatham House rules 147 00:27:24.510 --> 00:27:42.240 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: where people are allowed to take what they hear from this, but not attribute it to somebody. And that's one of multiple tools that we use in terms of trust building and establishing communication boundaries. Things that I imagine Ccl. Uses just in teaching people how to talk to senators and how to talk to aids 148 00:27:42.240 --> 00:27:47.690 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: that may be really disagree with you. We use those same tools to 149 00:27:47.890 --> 00:27:50.860 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: once activists and advocates have have started 150 00:27:50.990 --> 00:28:02.150 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: launching their campaign campaign to say, okay, here's now. Here's a venue to get you in the same room. We need you to come in in good faith and participate just like the companies coming in and good faith to participate. 151 00:28:05.010 --> 00:28:17.510 Madeleine Para: Yeah. Okay. So you haven't mentioned yet that you were a Ccl. Volunteer. But but you're well positioned then, for this next question, which is, how 152 00:28:17.510 --> 00:28:27.860 Madeleine Para: how can we and Ccl take what you understand, and have learned and use into our work building bridges, or or you know whether that's 153 00:28:27.960 --> 00:28:36.220 Madeleine Para: our outreach to companies or to other stakeholders or members of Congress. So 154 00:28:36.450 --> 00:28:37.360 Madeleine Para: yeah. 155 00:28:37.890 --> 00:28:42.560 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: favorite question, so far all wonderful. So I would say 156 00:28:42.780 --> 00:28:55.490 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: it, hey? Yes, I was a Ccl. In 2,019 for a short period of time, especially for the pandemic hit. But I really loved the work, and was really drawn into what Ccl. Does and got to learn from. 157 00:28:55.650 --> 00:29:00.470 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: And Carl, who's here on the chat, and and a few other fantastic folks in San Diego, who were 158 00:29:00.610 --> 00:29:08.930 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: very much in a divisive environment of some of our politicians were very for this. Some were very against anything environmental. 159 00:29:09.010 --> 00:29:15.770 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: and and so I am. I am so grateful for what I learned, and what I've got to take then into the work that I do now. 160 00:29:15.820 --> 00:29:26.130 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: And so what i'd say from the work that I do now, for for Cclers is a there's a lot of overlap in in what we do where fundamentally, what you're doing is your 161 00:29:26.270 --> 00:29:36.670 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: humanizing people to one another. You're humanizing yourself. You're humanizing the stories that you're telling. And if you're a meeting with Congress people, if you're meeting with companies. 162 00:29:37.160 --> 00:29:49.690 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: that person is a person. And so, first and foremost, treating them like a person and building that personal connection is the most important thing I can be talking to someone from a company that I vehemently disagree with. 163 00:29:49.880 --> 00:29:58.480 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: But I know that's their life and their livelihood that they are doing the best that they are are in their situation Likewise, when i'm talking to an activist or an advocate. 164 00:29:58.490 --> 00:30:09.410 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: and that humanizing is how we can get past all of our differences, and it you can't even get to a point of having a conversation. If you can't see each other as people 165 00:30:09.710 --> 00:30:18.260 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: so just like in in working with your Congress people and representatives. They are people, too. It may be hard sometimes to feel like that. 166 00:30:18.310 --> 00:30:27.890 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: but they are people to regardless of their political affiliation. So I'd say that that humanizing is one component, a second component is the patience 167 00:30:28.000 --> 00:30:35.070 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: and the like. The long-term thinking and knowing which can be so hard when environmental work feels like 168 00:30:35.080 --> 00:30:36.660 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: everything is on fire. 169 00:30:36.670 --> 00:30:41.630 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: What do you do when everything is on fire? But so much of these relationships and 170 00:30:41.820 --> 00:30:52.460 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: these cultural changes are what we call social acing pressure acupuncture where you're putting pressure points at different spaces and stages. So your 171 00:30:52.740 --> 00:31:06.390 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: the work that we do I see going hand- with the work that Ccl. Does that you are putting pressure in different areas. We are putting pressure in different areas. And so much of the time. This is where my conflict. Resolution background comes in. 172 00:31:07.240 --> 00:31:11.620 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: People stop listening when they get yelled at. We all shut down if we're being blamed. 173 00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:23.560 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: so I love the Ccl. Approach of kindness, of gratitude, of thanks to who you are working with and appreciation and using that as a 174 00:31:24.090 --> 00:31:26.990 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: again a way to to humanize, to build trust. 175 00:31:27.090 --> 00:31:33.990 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: And that's a a really hard thing to do. But it's so important, and i'd say some of the other things that I would learn are 176 00:31:35.080 --> 00:31:46.450 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: find things to stay excited about. Find, find those little winds, no matter how small they are, they are never too small. particularly because this is a long term battle, no matter how 177 00:31:46.700 --> 00:31:50.360 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: hard and how urgent the work is. 178 00:31:50.420 --> 00:32:08.810 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: you still have to keep yourself going and motivated, and to find joy with people you'd it's amazing how much laughter can break everything down. So again that humanizing that relationship building, finding some joy and finding some humor in what you're doing or with other people is one of my my favorite 179 00:32:08.840 --> 00:32:09.900 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: takeaways. 180 00:32:10.030 --> 00:32:11.820 Madeleine Para: Hmm. Thank you. 181 00:32:12.210 --> 00:32:18.540 Madeleine Para: We've got some questions in the Q. And a. Now. So let's see what planner is 182 00:32:18.810 --> 00:32:20.770 Madeleine Para: that for us got for you 183 00:32:22.190 --> 00:32:26.960 Flannery Winchester | Sr. Director of Communications | she/her: all right, so we have our top. 184 00:32:27.480 --> 00:32:37.830 Flannery Winchester | Sr. Director of Communications | she/her: or one of our top uploaded questions is asking, pointing out that the fossil fuel industry has such a history of dishonesty? How do you 185 00:32:37.830 --> 00:32:56.190 Flannery Winchester | Sr. Director of Communications | she/her: verify, or can you verify that they're not just using the tools of conflict, resolution to further manipulate or delay, action, or just continue to expand extraction, and that we have a couple of other questions where folks are asking. Has a fossil fuel company ever committed to to changes that Would 186 00:32:57.340 --> 00:33:01.330 Flannery Winchester | Sr. Director of Communications | she/her: that would move away from fossil fuels. Or would you know. 187 00:33:01.520 --> 00:33:04.040 Flannery Winchester | Sr. Director of Communications | she/her: work to me by Ipcc Goals things like that? 188 00:33:05.480 --> 00:33:14.790 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: A fantastic question, and I will say, just like trying to reach across the political boundaries. It's a really hard area to work in, and these are companies where 189 00:33:15.590 --> 00:33:18.650 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: this is their business model. This is what keeps them going. 190 00:33:18.710 --> 00:33:32.490 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: and in terms of the kind of the good faith component we do that the background of the companies that we work with. We do have certain commitments that they have to reach. We also have a transparency requirement. So every company we work with is on our website. 191 00:33:32.600 --> 00:33:35.070 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: and we 192 00:33:36.190 --> 00:33:51.860 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: so, and that's the the kind of the the transparency side we have not had a company commit to moving away from from fossil fuels. I think that is similarly an an issue that everyone has to kind of keep. That's a social, acute pressure point to to keep moving companies away. 193 00:33:51.870 --> 00:34:04.110 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: What we describe ourselves as is a critical friend. that we are here. We're there to answer questions, and we're also going to give them feedback. They don't like. So does that mean that they always take action on what we say? 194 00:34:04.180 --> 00:34:18.880 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: No; but it also means that we get to give them hard feedback, saying, you know this next choice you're going to make is going to further harm trust or nobody trust you. To begin with, right now. Here's some steps you can do towards building trust, and I will say we've we've had 195 00:34:19.020 --> 00:34:28.270 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: commitments from companies on smaller things again, not changing their entire business model. That would be amazing. I would so. But who knows 196 00:34:28.330 --> 00:34:41.670 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: but we have had smaller commitments to change how they work in an area to engage with groups that are actively trying to change their business model. So 197 00:34:42.940 --> 00:34:57.400 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: not a full answer to that. It's again. It's a challenging area. It's a huge massive industry, and we are just one of those pressure points. So those pressure points are also being pushed by public by consumers, by policy, as well as what we're, what we're doing. 198 00:34:58.970 --> 00:35:17.460 Flannery Winchester | Sr. Director of Communications | she/her: and and by activists, as you mentioned. So we have one question just clarifying your the the use of the term, so they say, activists. Andester means one thing on Wall Street, which you think is different than the way you're using it. So could you sort of clarify what you need when you talk about activists, and then also the sort of a follow up question 199 00:35:17.460 --> 00:35:24.920 Flannery Winchester | Sr. Director of Communications | she/her: can you weigh in on? If there are certain activist investor groups that are effective at at creating change 200 00:35:25.180 --> 00:35:38.920 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: great point and and clarification. So we we actually use a spectrum with companies that we explain to them where different groups kind of fall in terms of their willingness to engage. And even with activists just traditional activist Ngos, whose goal is 201 00:35:38.920 --> 00:35:48.060 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: changing company behavior through public campaign. So big ones like Nrdc. Smaller ones like. I think it's type of action 3, 50 for 360, 202 00:35:48.410 --> 00:35:56.890 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: those ones we we talked to companies about the impact that each one of those groups are for, and that there are some that will not work with them. And that's the point 203 00:35:57.110 --> 00:36:05.930 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: that those groups are there to push the narrative to a certain direction, and that to help lead companies there and then. There are activists that are in the middle who will talk to companies. 204 00:36:06.050 --> 00:36:23.480 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: and so that's when we're talking about the activist side. We're talking about activist investors. We are traditionally talking about investors who will buy a share in a company, and we'll use their votes to get the company to make different changes. Who will file proxies with the company asking for change. 205 00:36:23.480 --> 00:36:36.460 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: and so one of the biggest ones that most people are familiar with is one like as you. So who. 2 or 3 years now ago got 3 board seats on Exxon's board, overthrown essentially, which was historic. 206 00:36:36.700 --> 00:36:38.280 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: and that 207 00:36:38.450 --> 00:36:43.820 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: it it's a little too soon for us to see just how much of an impact that is going to have, but that has never happened. 208 00:36:44.220 --> 00:36:47.160 and that is a level of power that I think it is hard to 209 00:36:47.230 --> 00:36:52.750 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: understate. And so I I do think again to the social acupuncture. Iraqi pressure 210 00:36:52.820 --> 00:37:01.760 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: point of view, Activist investors have a very important role in terms of pressuring a company through the channels of power. That companies already work in 211 00:37:01.800 --> 00:37:13.020 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: as opposed to traditional activists and Ngos, which are kind of forced to be a voice externally outside of the systems of power, and fight harder to get their voices current because they are out of the system. 212 00:37:13.700 --> 00:37:26.430 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: So that's how we when we're talking about activist investors. That's what we're we're talking about. So the interface Council and corporate responsibility as you. So engine number one, or what we talk about with activist investors. 213 00:37:27.760 --> 00:37:41.700 Madeleine Para: It would seem to me that this validates this idea of a an ecosystem of of within the climate movement or the the environmental movement, so that different groups doing different tactics, help 214 00:37:41.940 --> 00:37:46.800 Madeleine Para: to that that at least sometimes there's a synergy there that can help to move things forward 215 00:37:46.890 --> 00:37:52.710 Madeleine Para: rather than one thing all you know, only doing one tactic by everybody. 216 00:37:52.940 --> 00:38:03.550 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: and that they're all really equally important. So there's not one we and we don't tell companies that like, oh, this one's the one that matters, and these are the ones to pay attention to. They. They all have such an important role in the pressure. 217 00:38:03.570 --> 00:38:10.610 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: So, for example, this utility that i'm working with, I'm. Working with a coordinator from Ccl. As well on this. And 218 00:38:10.640 --> 00:38:21.020 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: this is a series of stakeholder engagements with this utility, and we have voices coming from local government, from local power companies, from Ccl. From Sierra Leone, from 219 00:38:21.050 --> 00:38:40.230 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: other Ngos, and each one of these groups bring such a different perspective and different voice, and our job is to elevate each one of those voices. Help the company, be ready to hear those, and each one. It's a different pressure point, and and a different. It brings a different validity to what they're trying to get the company to do. 220 00:38:41.460 --> 00:38:42.340 Madeleine Para: Thank you. 221 00:38:42.830 --> 00:38:46.510 Madeleine Para: We're just about out of time. Is there one sort of 222 00:38:46.740 --> 00:38:57.830 Flannery Winchester | Sr. Director of Communications | she/her: concluding question. You would pull out, Flannery. We could do one short one. Someone was wondering, how long does the mediation process take, or what's the longest you've ever spent on a successful mediation. 223 00:38:58.720 --> 00:38:59.740 years 224 00:38:59.760 --> 00:39:01.730 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: or for the longest. 225 00:39:01.790 --> 00:39:20.170 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: the shortest, I would say no less than a year to 18 months, because we're talking culture change. We're talking interpersonal change, and half the time we're also kind of getting companies to look at how they handle their own internal stakeholders. That's a part I didn't mention is like their employees, their their board. Those are stakeholders to. 226 00:39:20.170 --> 00:39:26.710 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: so we we also do a lot of work with companies, even just trying to get their teams on board, or how to 227 00:39:26.790 --> 00:39:38.280 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: change the language around, how they see environmental things or environmental groups. So i'd say much. I hate to say it. It depends but a long time. Unfortunately, this is 228 00:39:38.400 --> 00:39:45.760 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: the the one i'm doing out of the southeast that has been an 8 month process, and i'd say we're still very much in the trust building stage. 229 00:39:47.010 --> 00:39:55.070 Madeleine Para: Good thing we're all in it for the long haul. Exactly. And again that every single person, every single Ccl. Or I've met Ccl. Or I'm. Back 230 00:39:55.350 --> 00:39:58.460 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: is so important and impactful, and makes 231 00:39:58.570 --> 00:40:06.380 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: a difference in every conversation you have so never feel like you are unimportant, because every conversation you have matters, even if it's not with a legislator. 232 00:40:08.340 --> 00:40:23.950 Madeleine Para: Thank you so much for being here for taking time on Saturday, and for all of the years of work that you're investing in. Thank you. Pcl: Everyone on this call you all do incredible, wonderful work, and I believe in what you do, and i'm so grateful for you all. 233 00:40:24.800 --> 00:40:36.350 Madeleine Para: You are welcome to stay on for the last 10 min of our call, where we go over to what's been happening and what we think should be happening. But I understand that it's a Saturday. So 234 00:40:36.520 --> 00:40:38.960 Kajsa Hendrickson, Future 500: okay, thank you so much. 235 00:40:39.140 --> 00:40:39.980 Madeleine Para: Thanks. 236 00:40:43.170 --> 00:40:49.840 Madeleine Para: Well, so yeah, folks. March was a busy month, you know, but you're always busy 237 00:40:50.090 --> 00:40:52.490 Madeleine Para: being climate advocates. That's how we are. 238 00:40:53.320 --> 00:41:11.740 Madeleine Para: Oh, I want to highlight a few things. The return to regional conferences was in full force, and this made me so happy that any way we can come together, whether it's virtual or in person, but especially in person, to have that coming back. So we had in person conferences in the mid Atlantic. 239 00:41:11.740 --> 00:41:29.080 Madeleine Para: California, southeast, and northeast regions, and we had virtual conferences in the tornadoes and Pacific Northwest regions. Texas jumped in with the State Conference and a State lobby day as well, and I hear other States also have been lobbying their State legislatures. 240 00:41:29.110 --> 00:41:46.050 Madeleine Para: and I just want to say how incredibly grateful I am to the people who did the work of putting those conferences and events together. It's again so valuable to give people that way to connect and take our advocacy to a new level. So thank you. Conference organizers. 241 00:41:47.140 --> 00:41:58.160 Madeleine Para: We also had our third Conservative Climate Leadership Conference in Washington, DC. Last month, over 80 people attended. And this marked our return to in-person lobbying on the hill. 242 00:41:58.550 --> 00:42:05.590 Madeleine Para: The right of Center Cclers had 24 meetings with Republican members of Congress. 243 00:42:05.720 --> 00:42:17.780 Madeleine Para: and in several cases those meetings went on for over an hour, and in one case that included a member of Congress who came out and stood there with them for an hour. 244 00:42:18.150 --> 00:42:21.450 Madeleine Para: That's how well received our Conservatives were. 245 00:42:21.610 --> 00:42:36.980 Madeleine Para: and as always, you know, as you're at ahead of Lobby Day. You see these little groups of people meeting in the hallways at every break at meals, planning their meetings all through the Conference venue, and that always just bring such joy to my heart, seeing that. 246 00:42:37.030 --> 00:42:44.990 Madeleine Para: and you know they invite our integrity, value of being prepared. I I just. I love the way you all are. 247 00:42:46.020 --> 00:43:02.620 Madeleine Para: March also included our spring fundraising campaign, and, thanks to your support and generosity, we reached our goal of 10,000 in New Monthly donors. That steady stream is very, very helpful, and that also unlocked the $100,000 matching gift which we love receiving. 248 00:43:02.700 --> 00:43:21.200 Madeleine Para: So again thank you for all the support of the March appeal, and you know, by spreading the word, and by doing what you could do personally. You know, you might have heard the news last week that, like many businesses and nonprofits, Ccl. Has found this to be a challenging economy and a challenging time. 249 00:43:21.580 --> 00:43:30.720 Madeleine Para: and the support of our membership provides the foundation. So we are so grateful for the way you hold study in good and bad economies. 250 00:43:31.010 --> 00:43:43.060 Madeleine Para: I have to mention that the staff was incredibly touched by the way extra donations poured in after the group leader meeting on Tuesday, when I let our group leaders know that we had to make some cuts and staffing. 251 00:43:43.090 --> 00:43:53.740 Madeleine Para: See, Sales got to remain strong because of that mutual support that flows through all parts of our organization from the volunteers through the staff and through our boards. 252 00:43:55.440 --> 00:43:57.300 Madeleine Para: So thank you again. Everybody. 253 00:43:57.990 --> 00:44:13.410 Madeleine Para: March was also a month when many of you connected with your members of Congress in the district. I love how you rose to the challenge that we gave of finding new ways to build a relationship with your member of Congress and their staff. And here's my latest favorite example. 254 00:44:13.410 --> 00:44:24.630 Madeleine Para: So you can see there's a picture here from our Chester County, Pennsylvania Citizens Climate Lobby group. They planted a tree in honor of their representative 255 00:44:24.700 --> 00:44:37.310 Madeleine Para: representative, Kissy Huli, who's there with the shovel. So she came. She helped with the planting, and there was a news story. So congratulations to all of you. And what a wonderful way to build a relationship! 256 00:44:38.710 --> 00:44:54.000 Madeleine Para: All right. April's gonna be busy, too. Of course you're already out there with Earth Day related activities. It's always a big month for us. and so you know. Remember how we're a national team and all our individual and group actions add up to big things. 257 00:44:54.060 --> 00:44:56.180 Madeleine Para: Well, that's why we have a new challenge for you. 258 00:44:56.400 --> 00:45:11.420 Madeleine Para: 500 outreach events in April. That's our national goal. We are already at 67 logged, and this includes tabling presenting film screening grass tops and editorial board events. 259 00:45:11.420 --> 00:45:21.320 Madeleine Para: So Keep putting those in the action tracker as they happen. And i'm confident we're gonna blow past that goal because it's April, and it's Earth Day coming. 260 00:45:21.600 --> 00:45:27.900 Madeleine Para: So you'll be able to see the National Progress on the home dashboard of our member, website, Ccl. Community. 261 00:45:29.130 --> 00:45:40.500 Madeleine Para: Here are the recommended April actions, and they are almost entirely related to Earth day. So i'm going to read them, and then we'll dive into one of them a little bit more with some slides. 262 00:45:40.510 --> 00:46:00.250 Madeleine Para: So one is include a peanuts, climate activity, counseling Booth peanut, as in Charlie Brown or Lucy, who used to have that counseling booth at your Earth Day table to onboard new folks you recruit during your Earth Day activities. I'm sure you'd be doing that anyway. 263 00:46:00.590 --> 00:46:07.470 Madeleine Para: 3, Our social media bonus action is to record and post a short video of an Earth Day event. 264 00:46:07.750 --> 00:46:14.580 Madeleine Para: Fourth, the chapter Development Bonus action is to pass the hat to send someone to the June Conference. 265 00:46:14.750 --> 00:46:21.360 Madeleine Para: and then the communications action exercise is to practice talking to a table visitor. 266 00:46:22.220 --> 00:46:30.190 Madeleine Para: So let's go back to the first one. I asked Brett to to show you what this climate anxiety, counseling Booth looks like. So, Brett. 267 00:46:30.700 --> 00:46:36.520 Brett Cease | VP Programs | he/him: Thanks, Madeline. Yeah, I guess my first question for everyone is, what do April showers bring? 268 00:46:36.730 --> 00:47:04.110 Brett Cease | VP Programs | he/him: Well, if you're here in Duluth, a historical, long, heavy winter due to global warming. But for the rest of the country we have Earth Day outreach events that we're going to preview today. Everyone, and I know that, like Madeline's already highlighted, we have already gotten almost 70 of them throughout the country what i'd like to highlight. We just put a link in the chat is where you can find and what is available for this Earth month in your outreach. Thanks to our amazing marketing team. 269 00:47:04.110 --> 00:47:06.370 Brett Cease | VP Programs | he/him: we're going to talk through the counseling booth. 270 00:47:06.370 --> 00:47:24.430 Brett Cease | VP Programs | he/him: The climate guilt-free pass, as well as a fun. New flyer by the climate of coffee. I'll do this very quickly. So the first reminder is, all of our resources are available on Ccl community. If you just click on this little resources and training, drop down menu, and then from there all resources. 271 00:47:24.430 --> 00:47:35.920 Brett Cease | VP Programs | he/him: You should see here that main view. They're right here at the very top, but they're also available in our tabling materials. Section. You can also search and type in any of these keywords if you're looking as well. 272 00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:49.640 Brett Cease | VP Programs | he/him: So what are we actually talking about here? Well, the great creative idea behind this theme is shared with that peanuts comment that Lucy behind the booth is going to be able to provide help. Right now. All of us 273 00:47:49.640 --> 00:48:01.920 Brett Cease | VP Programs | he/him: are in a position where we can listen to and engage our communities on their concerns about climate change, and then provide them the opportunity to take action which we know is the antidote to despair. 274 00:48:01.920 --> 00:48:17.050 Brett Cease | VP Programs | he/him: So let's do that this year, in a really creative and fun, engaging way by putting together your own climate, anxiety, counseling Booth, or using the one that we've created, and have available for download and order on that resource page that we just put in the chat. 275 00:48:17.060 --> 00:48:36.180 Brett Cease | VP Programs | he/him: You're more than welcome to set it up like this. If you don't have the full budget for a phone board, we have an 8 and a half by 11 in sign you can print out to and again engage in conversations where you listen and help others express their concern for being engaged on climate change, and then also finding out how they can take action 276 00:48:36.300 --> 00:48:50.220 Brett Cease | VP Programs | he/him: and how they can take action. We have a couple of great options, one of which is this wonderful climate guilt-free pass you can see here on the left hand side Climate guilt gets us all so we're giving you one climate guilt-free pass 277 00:48:50.220 --> 00:49:09.300 Brett Cease | VP Programs | he/him: they're able to immediately scan and redeem that pass by taking action and contacting their member of Congress to ask them to protect america's, forests, which is our main, ask and engagement for Earth month. You're also welcome to use any of our other handouts for that same opportunity. And then, in addition, we have this wonderful handout 278 00:49:09.300 --> 00:49:28.670 Brett Cease | VP Programs | he/him: where you can engage people to crowdfund for Ccl. If they're interested with this fun creative approach where they're able to scan with their app and download, or at least to access paypal. And then immediately there kind of feel part of the movement by being able to look out for the climate by donating, supporting. Ccl. 279 00:49:29.150 --> 00:49:49.120 Brett Cease | VP Programs | he/him: The last thing I'll just highlight here is we have already gotten some great photos of these booths in action, and so, if you are interested in having marketing share what you have been up to, so that we can communicate across all of our social media channels and on our future trainings and outreach. Please just email marketing at citizens climate org 280 00:49:49.120 --> 00:50:05.390 Brett Cease | VP Programs | he/him: or go to this short link and upload your own photos that Ccl: U.S.A. dot org forward slash chapter photos drive, and you 2 can engage in these discussions and have a chance to really help your community take action together and feel like their concerns are being addressed. 281 00:50:05.390 --> 00:50:12.540 Brett Cease | VP Programs | he/him: So with that i'll pass it back to you madly, and we can't wait to hear and see all of the inspirational photos and outreach events. Each of you are doing. Thank you. 282 00:50:13.890 --> 00:50:15.040 Madeleine Para: Thanks, Brett. 283 00:50:16.600 --> 00:50:25.980 Madeleine Para: You know that amazing display of creativity embodies the amazing synergy between Ccl. Volunteers and staff. 284 00:50:26.020 --> 00:50:31.880 Madeleine Para: The idea for that climate Counseling Booth came from one of you or several of you. 285 00:50:31.890 --> 00:50:42.610 Madeleine Para: It got, you know, shared and passed along, and Staff could tell you were excited about it, and then Staff developed it further into something that everyone could use. 286 00:50:42.780 --> 00:50:50.070 Madeleine Para: You know. I I just think with teamwork like that happening across the country between our members and our staff. 287 00:50:50.070 --> 00:51:04.180 Madeleine Para: We are going to build the political will. It takes to ensure a livable planet. So thank you for the creativity you have out in the field. Thank you. To our marketing and program staff, who put that out 288 00:51:04.420 --> 00:51:05.680 Madeleine Para: to everybody. 289 00:51:06.680 --> 00:51:16.840 Madeleine Para: I want to end the call with another part of our stellar team work, which would be, which is the synergy between the power of constituents that's you 290 00:51:16.860 --> 00:51:36.570 Madeleine Para: combined with the know-how of a skilled government affairs team. That's our Ben and Jen on to our hill staff, and they took a few minutes last week in front of the iconic, Washington, DC. Cherry Glass, to tell you why Congress is eager to see you again this June. So we're going to share that video and wrap it up 291 00:51:42.510 --> 00:52:00.400 A. C. Ellers. I'm. Ben Pendergrass, your Vice President of Government affairs, and I'm. Jen Tyler, your senior director of Government Affairs, as you can see from the trees around us. Spring is coming a little bit early here to DC. And that's getting us really excited for the upcoming June conference, you know, Last year we had some of the most significant climate winds in history. 292 00:52:00.430 --> 00:52:26.000 But we're not done yet. We need to get back to DC. In June to make sure Congress knows that climate is still a priority. even with all the other things going on in the world right now. Not only are we going to be talking about and lobbying on some really important topics, but just being there in numbers, sends a strong message to Congress. I can't tell you how many times I've had conversations with staffers who have been so impressed by how many people we bring to the hill Every June. 293 00:52:26.000 --> 00:52:41.190 every single chair in the Longworth cafeteria seems to be taken by a Ccl. And that really sends a key message to members of Congress that we're there. We're united, and we're going to push them to advance priorities on climate, You know. There's going to be a lot of important things happening this year. 294 00:52:41.290 --> 00:52:59.400 We know we have to engage in Congress on permeate reform, make it where we can build clean energy infrastructure faster. We know the farm bill is coming, and we need to preserve our climate wins from the Ira and the farm bill, and you know we need to keep pushing Congress on a carbon price and sea bam legislation as well, and that's why you need to make it here in June 295 00:52:59.520 --> 00:53:01.640 really hope to see you guys in June. 296 00:53:05.500 --> 00:53:18.350 Madeleine Para: I can't wait to see you in June to all of you who are able to make it, and I look forward to wherever I cross. Pass with you and hear from you have a great month. A April is always wonderful. 297 00:53:19.050 --> 00:53:21.680 Madeleine Para: Take good care and see you in June. 298 00:53:41.430 --> 00:53:50.530 The I really needed an outlet where I felt like I was really making an impact and really contributing. And when I found Ccl. It was exactly that 299 00:53:52.420 --> 00:53:53.660 you. 300 00:53:55.060 --> 00:54:16.690 The My work is centered around. going out into the highways and byways, and compelling people to know that there is hope as an indigenous man. It helps me to be able to understand that I am from the earth. You know whether it be the trees or the bush or the rocks, the elements in itself, You know we are connected to these things 301 00:54:16.690 --> 00:54:29.370 since the climate lobby. It helped me to look at climate change in a different manner. Which generation sort of gets defined. What politics is. It's why it's so key for people who, I think, are level headed and 302 00:54:29.370 --> 00:54:58.240 want to have fruitful discussions to really get involved with the King, because they bring a lot of people with them. They create a culture in which we can talk about these things in a calm way. I really believe that talking about it and trying to educate people and help them come to their own conclusions. I think that that's very, very important. Our voices can make a difference, You know whether you're on the reservation, or whether you're from a small town or a State. You can literally write a letter, a call, and top directly to the office, or the Congressperson themselves 303 00:54:58.240 --> 00:55:16.610 growing up, wanting to be politically involved, but being a little bit quiet about it, I was able to just observe the conversations both on the conservative and liberal spectrum. You're trying to understand the other person, and compassion plays a part in that desire for communication, and that desire to be understood 304 00:55:16.610 --> 00:55:32.920 politically. I I've voted both ways. I know there's good people, both Democrats and Republicans. They're good people over there are State House. I'm actually optimistic about the future of the party, just because I know so many young republicans that care about climate change. I'm very optimistic. 305 00:55:33.450 --> 00:55:46.450 I believe that somewhere, somehow we're going to get it right. Don't be discouraged by what the future looks like. Come to our meeting and be in carries to make a difference and make the change happen. 306 00:55:46.490 --> 00:55:55.960 If you're nervous. just jump in, just jump in and help because I was nervous. But sometimes you're needed.