CCL Volunteer Video Documentaries
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This short documentary video series is comprised of seven videos, each one featuring a different CCL volunteer in his or her hometown, sharing about their lives and the work that they do to support climate change.
This short documentary video series was created to reveal the grassroots support for the Energy Innovation Act provided through Citizens' Climate Lobby.The series is comprised of seven videos, each one featuring a different CCL volunteer in his or her hometown, sharing about their lives and the work that they do to support climate change.
The videos will be launched approximately once per week until all seven are live by the end of 2019. See below for the list of what videos are available and how to find them outside of the Energy Innovation Act Site Main Page and CCL Community's Videos resource page.
Video 1: Emily is a young Latina woman from Fresno, California who is starting college at Stanford University as a first generation college student. Video 2: Mike is a former coal miner living in coal country, West Virginia and working towards a renewable energy future for his family. Video 3: Sonna is a pastor, community organizer, environmentalist in Fort Smith, AR who does her work with love. Video 4: Morgan is a young, Conservative, Evangelical Christian woman from Texas whose faith compels her to solve climate change. Video 5: Sarah is an 8th grade physical science teacher and mom in Northwest Georgia who helps her students understand about climate change. Video 6: Reggie grew up in the Navajo Nation with a strong connection to nature. He's protecting his own little corner of the earth for his family and the nature around him. Video 7: Jacob is a young Republican Congressional staffer in Washington DC who explains that Young Republicans care deeply about climate change.
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