August National Monthly Meeting

Each month, Citizens’ Climate Lobby supporters gather locally for a National Monthly Meeting where we educate ourselves by listening to a guest speaker. Go to your local chapter's page to find out more about your chapter's plans for listening in. Our monthly action sheets are posted by the Saturday ahead of the National Monthly Meeting. You can post any questions you have about this event in the comments below.

August 2025 Featured Speaker: Amanda Ripley

At CCL’s 2025 Summer Conference and Lobby Day in D.C. last month, we were privileged to hear from Amanda Ripley in a keynote conversation with CCL’s Illinois State Coordinator Alex Marianyi. We want every CCLer to have a chance to hear Amanda’s powerful message and Alex’s takeaways, so this month’s meeting features recorded highlights from their keynote session. Amanda Ripley is a New York Times bestselling author, a Washington Post contributing columnist, and the co-founder of Good Conflict, a media and training company that helps people reimagine conflict. She has written three award-winning, nonfiction books about three very different subjects: High Conflict, The Smartest Kids in the World, and The Unthinkable. Previously, Ripley spent a decade writing about human behavior for Time magazine in New York, Washington, and Paris.

Playback options and other resources

You can watch or download the video recording. You can also listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, or Spotify.

Be sure to log your participation, or if you’re watching the recording, your viewing in the Action Tracker.

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