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Action Team
Description:
Engaging farmers, ranchers, foresters as individuals and organizations in climate solutions. Co-leads: Elli Sparks and Nancy Jacobson
CCL and Outreach to Agricultural Communities - intro webinar
Ag Action Team Monthly Call
When: 2nd Tuesdays
Time: 9 am PT – 10 am MT – 11 am CT – 12 noon ET
Where: See the appropriate Upcoming Event.
Recent Calls (recordings)
July 13 - What Ag Team members have been doing, chat
June 8 - Lobbying resources, chat
May 11 - Discussion of the GCSA; model by Stephen Shafer, chat
April 13 - Mike Williams to work with us on media communications, chat
March 9 - Biochar and what ag team members have been doing
CCL and Outreach to Agricultural Communities - intro webinar
Ag Action Team Monthly Call
When: 2nd Tuesdays
Time: 9 am PT – 10 am MT – 11 am CT – 12 noon ET
Where: See the appropriate Upcoming Event.
Recent Calls (recordings)
July 13 - What Ag Team members have been doing, chat
June 8 - Lobbying resources, chat
May 11 - Discussion of the GCSA; model by Stephen Shafer, chat
April 13 - Mike Williams to work with us on media communications, chat
March 9 - Biochar and what ag team members have been doing
Group:
Public
Members:
387
More Info
The Growing Climate Solutions Act passed the Senate 6/24! Flannery has put together the following resources:
Lobbying resources
2021 June Lobbying Resources including Alternative Supporting Ag Asks
EICDA resources
Agriculture Climate Declaration
FAQ on the EICDA and Agriculture
Study on Impact of EICDA on Agriculture and Supplementary Material (see pages 23-24 for info on net returns for each crop studied, for year 1 use GHG 15, for year 10 use GHG 25 data)
EICDA Information Sheet with Ag Exemption
SFR Seed supports EICDA - video
EICDA - Farmer Concerns and CCL Responses (some of this needs to be updated)
Ag Attitudes on Climate Change
GCSA resources
Intro to the Growing Climate Solutions Act
GCSA Outreach Resources from BCL-Ag
Press release for the Growing Climate Solutions Act
GCSA handout by BCL-Ag
Alternative supporting ag asks
Interview Team GCSA Fact Sheet
Growing Climate Solutions Act 2020 and Supporting Materials .
Farmers and ranchers and foresters have the potential of becoming climate heroes by changing land use practices so that their systems create a net sink of greenhouse gases. They are the ones who can most efficiently scale up the effort to extract carbon from the air and store it in plants, soil, and trees.
The Ag Action Team is collecting bills that help farmers, ranchers, and/or foresters changing their land use practices so that their systems create a net sink of green house gases. If you know of any more such bills in Congress right now, please add it to this tracking spreadsheet for Potential Secondary Ask Bills.
Soil Health/Carbon Sequestration Bills in State Legislatures
Soil Health Articles and Case Studies
Members in the Congressional Agriculture Committees
House of Representatives
Senate
CCLJune2020 Agriculture Lobbying Resources
CCLJune2019 Agriculture Lobbying Resources
Presentation Slides
Media outreach
Grasstops Outreach
Coalition on Agriculture Greenhouse Gases
CCL volunteer Jan Storm serves as our delegate for this relationship.
Organic Consumers Association
Alexis Baden-Mayer, Political Director, has offered to connect CCL chapters with farmers. These farmers may be willing to host a tour for a member of Congress of their farm with a CCL chapter.
National Young Farmers Coalition
Would you like to reach out to young and beginning farmers? The National Young Farmers Coalition might be a good place to start looking for connections. Jan Storm, Kelly Lively, and Elli Sparks met with Michelle A.T. Hughes, Federal Policy Associate, while in DC for the CCL Conference in June 2019.
Press materials:
- CCL's press release is out to reporters, and it will be up on CCL's blog tomorrow morning after 10 a.m. ET at this link.
- We've posted a local press release template that volunteers can use to praise their Senator(s) for their vote.
- If volunteers want to write LTEs about this news, you can send them to this post in the CCL Community media forum.
- Sen. Braun and Stabenow held a press conference immediately following the vote, which you can watch and share here.
More background on CCL's work on this bill:
Relevant social media posts:
- CCL's tweet
- CCL's Facebook post
- Sen. Braun's Twitter video after the vote
- Sen. Stabenow's Twitter announcement
Lobbying resources
2021 June Lobbying Resources including Alternative Supporting Ag Asks
EICDA resources
Agriculture Climate Declaration
FAQ on the EICDA and Agriculture
Study on Impact of EICDA on Agriculture and Supplementary Material (see pages 23-24 for info on net returns for each crop studied, for year 1 use GHG 15, for year 10 use GHG 25 data)
EICDA Information Sheet with Ag Exemption
SFR Seed supports EICDA - video
EICDA - Farmer Concerns and CCL Responses (some of this needs to be updated)
Ag Attitudes on Climate Change
GCSA resources
Intro to the Growing Climate Solutions Act
GCSA Outreach Resources from BCL-Ag
Press release for the Growing Climate Solutions Act
GCSA handout by BCL-Ag
Alternative supporting ag asks
Interview Team GCSA Fact Sheet
Growing Climate Solutions Act 2020 and Supporting Materials .
Farmers and ranchers and foresters have the potential of becoming climate heroes by changing land use practices so that their systems create a net sink of greenhouse gases. They are the ones who can most efficiently scale up the effort to extract carbon from the air and store it in plants, soil, and trees.
The Ag Action Team is collecting bills that help farmers, ranchers, and/or foresters changing their land use practices so that their systems create a net sink of green house gases. If you know of any more such bills in Congress right now, please add it to this tracking spreadsheet for Potential Secondary Ask Bills.
Soil Health/Carbon Sequestration Bills in State Legislatures
Soil Health Articles and Case Studies
Members in the Congressional Agriculture Committees
House of Representatives
Senate
CCLJune2020 Agriculture Lobbying Resources
CCLJune2019 Agriculture Lobbying Resources
Presentation Slides
- Farmers & Agriculture: Making a CCL Presentation to the Ag Sector (Oct. 2019)
- Winning the Hearts and Minds of Your Member of Congress by Engaging the County Farm Bureau
- Presentation about soil health practices given by farmer Asher Wright to small-time organic growers followed with Presentation regarding Energy Innovation Act given by CCL volunteer
- Climate Change Impacts & Agriculture (2018)
- Agriculture and Energy Innovation Act - CCL Laser Talk
- Farm Bureau policy on climate aligns with our bill
- 2021 Farm Bureau Policy on Climate Change
- Winning the Hearts and Minds of Your Members of Congress by Engaging the County Farm Bureau
- 'Agriculture at the Table' Webinars
- Former California Farm Bureau President Paul Wenger at CCL Norcal Regional Conference 2019
Media outreach
- Ag Op-eds and LTEs (written by CCL volunteers)
Grasstops Outreach
Coalition on Agriculture Greenhouse Gases
CCL volunteer Jan Storm serves as our delegate for this relationship.
Organic Consumers Association
Alexis Baden-Mayer, Political Director, has offered to connect CCL chapters with farmers. These farmers may be willing to host a tour for a member of Congress of their farm with a CCL chapter.
National Young Farmers Coalition
Would you like to reach out to young and beginning farmers? The National Young Farmers Coalition might be a good place to start looking for connections. Jan Storm, Kelly Lively, and Elli Sparks met with Michelle A.T. Hughes, Federal Policy Associate, while in DC for the CCL Conference in June 2019.
- NYFC 2017 Young Farmers Survey
- Young Farmers Chapter Database
- Blog post on climate change and agriculture
- Podcast on IPCC report with one of the authors
- Their Communications Director is leading the effort to craft a climate statement with case studies - if you would like to follow up with them on this, please contact Elli
- Elli will help with connecting CCL staff with Young Farmers policy staff at the state and federal level
- You can help by Introducing any young farmers in the CCL network with Young Farmers and vice versa
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