{"id":1982,"date":"2019-10-24T08:11:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T13:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/?p=1982"},"modified":"2019-10-24T08:11:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T13:11:06","slug":"speaker-elli-sparks-citizens-climate-lobby-wednesday-october-30th-at-noon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/?p=1982","title":{"rendered":"Speaker: Elli Sparks, Citizens&#8217; Climate Lobby, Wednesday, October 30th at Noon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/93\/2019\/10\/CCLLogo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1983\" src=\"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/93\/2019\/10\/CCLLogo-1024x756.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/93\/2019\/10\/CCLLogo-1024x756.png 1024w, https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/93\/2019\/10\/CCLLogo-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/93\/2019\/10\/CCLLogo-768x567.png 768w, https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/93\/2019\/10\/CCLLogo-1200x886.png 1200w, https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/93\/2019\/10\/CCLLogo.png 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">Please mark your calendars for <strong>Wednesday, October 30th\u00a0at\u00a012<\/strong>&#8211;<strong>1pm in the GIS Lab (Science Center Room 207)<\/strong>,\u00a0if you are interested in learning more about <strong>legislative\u00a0political action<\/strong>, <strong>climate advocacy<\/strong>, and <strong>citizen lobbying<\/strong> from the Field Development Director of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/citizensclimatelobby.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Citizens&#8217; Climate Lobby<\/a><\/strong>, <b>Elli Sparks. <\/b>(There will be food!)<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div>Citizens&#8217; Climate Lobby\u00a0(CCL)\u00a0is\u00a0an international nonprofit focused on building support in Congress for a national bipartisan solution to climate change and increasing civic engagement.\u00a0They have recently:<\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: georgia, serif\">Successfully worked with Congress to introduce (H.R. 763)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/energyinnovationact.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act<\/a>\u00a0of 2019. CCL supports this bill, and is working towards its re-introduction in the Senate, and its passage through Congress.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: georgia, serif\">Instrumental in establishing the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/citizensclimatelobby.org\/climate-solutions-caucus\/\">House Climate Solutions Caucus<\/a>, a bipartisan group in the US House of Representatives which will explore policy options that address the impacts, causes, and challenges of our changing climate.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: georgia, serif\">Partnered with California state legislature to pass a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/citizensclimatelobby.org\/california-congress-tax-carbon-give-revenue-households\/\">resolution<\/a>\u00a0calling on the federal government to enact Carbon Fee and Dividend nationwide.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Elli\u00a0is committed to the success of CCL volunteers working to start new chapters in communities across the United States. She hosts CCL\u2019s weekly Introductory Calls and trains volunteers around the world to lead Climate Advocate Training Workshop; she also works closely with volunteers in coal and agricultural communities, ensuring that all voices find a place at the solutions table\u2013a passion founded on her own family roots in Appalachia and rural Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>Elli\u2019s work is informed by her fifteen years in nonprofit management and by her founding and leadership of Virginia\u2019s first CCL chapter, where she gained experience in nearly every volunteer role. She lives on a family farm in rural Virginia, where she rotates her cattle through the pasture to store carbon in soil and plants.<\/p>\n<p>Please do try to come! It&#8217;s a great opportunity to find your voice and political will for climate solutions.\u00a0We also have a chapter at OWU if you want to stay involved!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Mahnoor Ansari,<\/p>\n<p>Campus Leader, CCL OWU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please mark your calendars for Wednesday, October 30th\u00a0at\u00a012&#8211;1pm in the GIS Lab (Science Center Room 207),\u00a0if you are interested in learning more about legislative\u00a0political action, climate advocacy, and citizen lobbying from the Field Development Director of Citizens&#8217; Climate Lobby, Elli Sparks. (There will be food!) \u00a0 Citizens&#8217; Climate Lobby\u00a0(CCL)\u00a0is\u00a0an international nonprofit focused on building support &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/?p=1982\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Speaker: Elli Sparks, Citizens&#8217; Climate Lobby, Wednesday, October 30th at Noon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,5,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate","category-energy","category-special-events"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1987,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions\/1987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}