Connections

Developing relationships with a broad base of organizations is one of things we do at CCL because we want to become too connected to fail
 

• Internationally we encourage our members to partake in 350.org events. In May 2012, our CCL group leaders helped out at 350.org Connect the Dots events in Scarborough, Winnipeg, Halifax and Sudbury 
   
• Some of us have committed to the pledge at Four Years Go 
   
• A few of our members, including the USA and Canadian founders of CCL, are Climate Reality Project Presenters
   
• Citizens Climate Lobby works closely with our sister organization Citizens Climate Lobby (U.S.A.) 
   
• On our  second lobbying adventure in late November 2011 to Parliament Hill, Voices of  Women for Peace were part of that journey and we made new friends across Canada because of their support. We are so grateful. 
   
• We recently offered our grassroots support for the September 21- October 2, 2012 Climate Fast and Vigil on Parliament Hill by helping get MP's to sign the pledge and by wrote a letter to the editor thanking the Northern MP's for doing so 
   
• We are members of Canada's Climate Action Network.  We have lobbied with them in June 2012 and in November 2012 
   
• We were partners with the Post Carbon Toronto, Transition Toronto, Southern Ontario Centre for Atmospheric Aerosol Research, University College, Ontario Clean Air Alliance Science for Peace, Zero Carbon Toronto, Physicians for Global Survival, Just Earth, Climate Change Toronto and the Peace and Social Action Committeee  (Quakers) for the Mark Jacobson visit to Toronto on October 15-16, 2012
   
• We collaborated with Hamilton 350 on an event
   
• Many of our group leaders having taken part in Idle No More actions - another awesome grassroots organization
   
• Other partners in past events and actions include: Ontario Sustainable Energy Association,  Voters Taking Action on Climate Change, York University Faculty of Environmental Studies  and more 
   
• Some of our volunteers were part of the actions against the Keystone Pipeline and we partnered with the Canadian Showcase Dance company to Flash Mob a parliamentary constituency office to thank all MP's who opposed the Keystone XL Pipeline

   

• please forgive us if we left you out :) 

We are non-partisan and will do our best to stand behind any politician from any political party that will stand up for the climate. We are grateful to everyone who have joined us on the journey from me to WE!

Below is an image that shows many of the problems facing humanity.  You may feel overwhelmed looking at all the problems but as our Executive Director Mark Reynolds likes to remind us being overwhelmed is an incorrect interpretation of a situation.  Why is it an incorrect interpretation? It is almost impossible to be overwhelmed. It is something that rarely happens.

How do you overcome the feeling of being overwhelmed? Identify the problem and reframe to something other than overwhelmed. Work directly on that problem and come up with a plan that will help you successfully tackle that problem.

By working effectively on any one of these problems, be rest assured you will probably have a beneficial impact on the other problems because: