Climate

Communication with Companies

Promoting Equality & Group Unity

Levels 2-4 Activism

• A Student Guide for Community Organization (PDF) "I wrote this guide as a collection of anecdotes and lessons I have learned from being an undocumented, working-class woman of color who is also an organizer and a student. I want this guide to inspire people to organize in their communities and develop the tools they need in the ongoing fight for liberation and freedom. I chose to write this guide as a form of resilience.
  Over the past six years, I have been an organizer and have had to balance school, work, and being an activist. At times I had to prioritize my organizing over my own academic goals, and I am now just understanding how to balance each part of my life." While this guides is directed at students, it's got valuable lessons for people outside of school too.

• Climate Action Tracker

• Climate + Health Peer Learning Circle

• Restore Your Community

• Community Organising Training Manual "This manual is similar to the PACOS COT Manual 2005 which consists of input materials and the process involved in training community organizers who are mainly indigenous youths with no previous exposure or training. The materials in the manual can also be used as general information for those interested in learning to conduct community organising work and must be complemented with other resource materials.
  The manual consists of six modules in three different parts. Each module is estimated to be completed within 1-3 months. The methods and activity durations suggested in each module are only a guide and will need to be adjusted according to the training conditions, time, availability of materials and the participants’ levels.
  Each module needs to be complemented with fieldwork and practical in order for the participants to understand and apply the principles, concepts and methods learnt during theory sessions. Some additional activities are provided in this manual, for example, the land and the community mapping workshops. Through these extra activities, participants will be able to generate ideas on activities according to the needs of their own villages.
  With this manual, we hope the introduction to the process of community organising is more effective and that it enhances the readers’ interest in learning community organising work."

Level 3-4 Activism

• Vision Toolkit Booklet (PDF) "The Visions Toolkit contains instructions and tools to support YFOEE facilitators to run a variety of outreach activities, in three phases, enabling diverse individuals and groups across Europe to: 

1. Identify and map their values 

2. Explore changes today and share perspectives on possible  futures 

3. Develop and share visions for national Green New Deals, and prototype ways forward. 

• For each phase, there are: 

• Guidelines for facilitators 

• Activity worksheets 

• Explanations and examples 

• Guidelines for sharing insights across YFOEE 

Calculators

Climate Change

• En-ROADS Climate Solutions Simulator "is a fast, powerful climate solutions scenario tool for understanding how we can achieve our climate goals through changes in energy, land use, consumption, agriculture, and other policies. The simulator focuses on how changes in global GDP, energy efficiency, technological innovation, and carbon price influence carbon emissions, global temperature, and other factors. It is designed to provide a synthesis of the best available science on climate solutions and put it at the fingertips of groups in policy workshops and roleplaying games. These experiences enable people to explore the long-term climate impacts of global policy and investment decisions.
  
  En-ROADS is being developed by Climate Interactive, Ventana Systems, UML Climate Change Initiative, and MIT Sloan.
  
  This guide provides background on the dynamics of En-ROADS, tips for using the simulator, general descriptions, real-world examples, slider settings, and model structure notes for the different sliders in En-ROADS."

North America

USA

• Rewiring America: Track Your Local Pace of Progress "These projections from Rewiring America worked backwards from the emissions targets for 2050, and forward from current sales of machines for cooking, water heating, space heating, transportation, and rooftop solar to set a number of new clean electric machines that must be sold each year to reduce emissions from fossil-fueled machines. Type your city, county, or state into the search bar to get those numbers broken down for your area, by each machine category.
  
  While creating this tool, one of things we found is that some individual communities and states are leading the way: their goals are bolder than the rest of the country and so don’t match the path laid out in our data. That’s a great problem to have. So our tool should not be considered the only source of its kind -- but one that reflects only one of the possible paths to decarbonization."

Maps

International

• More People Care About Climate Change than You Think "The majority of people in every country support action on climate, but the public consistently underestimates this share."

North America

USA

• Coastal Flood Exposure Mapper "Jumpstart community discussions about local coastal flooding hazards by developing maps that show the people, places, and natural resources at risk."

Grants

International

• Animal Charity Evaluators "ACE Movement Grants (formerly “Effective Animal Advocacy Fund”) is for anyone who is interested in making the animal advocacy movement more effective."

• The Pollination Project (TPP) "is a vegan foundation that offers seed funding to grassroots activists working to build a kinder, more compassionate world for human & non-human animals.
  
  TPP focuses on early stage ideas and funds individuals directly. Over the years, they’ve seen the power of bottom-up, community-led grassroots activism. Through “pollination philanthropy”– a democratic model of peer-to-peer decision-making — TPP works with a global network of grantees, community partners, and volunteer advisors to identify extraordinary project leaders who, due to the grassroots nature of their work, are often not in a position to receive funding from other foundations or institutions.
  
  They make micro grants 365 days a year to grassroots global change agents and have a growing global community of 4,500 grassroots leaders in 150 countries. They support vegan outreach projects around the world, and have a special program for farmed animal activists in Brazil, India and Mexico. Their goal is to offer not just seed funding, but capacity-building support and connectivity with other activists working in the same geographic or issue area."