NNOCCI Week 2024

Often the hardest part of climate conversations is the ask of our audiences - how do we leave people inspired and empowered to take meaningful, community-level action to address climate change? And how can those actions create co-benefits for folks in their own communities? Join the JEDI Council and Training Committee for the latest on how to talk about solutions and how to assess if the solutions really help those most at risk from climate change.

Earlier this year NNOCCI wrapped our grant from NOAA’s Environmental Literacy Program; the grant’s goals were to update and integrate JEDI principles into our work, while developing a Trainer Course pilot program. Come hear about the course’s completion, evaluative process, and lessons learned!

Join us for a networking session on this last day of NNOCCI Week. Participants will have an opportunity to meet other NNOCCI members from near and far. Through this session, members will discuss how regional and audience differences can play a part in climate communication. We hope to see you there!

Join this live-streamed Zoom direct from Polar Bears International to learn more about NNOCCI's long standing relationship with PBI. You might even get the chance to see a polar bear right out the window!

Join your fellow framers in this interactive session to kick off NNOCCI week! You'll meet other network members from around the country, receive a welcome from NNOCCI's leadership, and learn about network happenings and how to get involved!

Join us for an uplifting hour during NNOCCI week as fellow members, recently trained and experienced alike, share their climate stories from around the country. We’ll screen climate stories shared by practitioners in the field and then break out into groups to discuss and provide glows and grows. Come be inspired by your fellow framers stories!

Join a panel of young climate activists to hear what sparked their passion in the climate movement. We’ll share strategies and brainstorm possibilities for how we and our organizations might better engage young people in climate work.

In this interactive, 90-minute session, we will explore ways to bring genuine, energizing lightness to the heavy topic of climate change. We will focus on zooming in and out of a situation, as well as using every day experiences, to illuminate key dynamics of important issues. And we will belly laugh.
The session is led by Belina Raffy, creator of the climate comedy course Sustainable Stand Up. The Sustainable Stand Up course has been running for over 9 years online and in 10 countries. Past alumni include a NASA climate scientist, several humanitarian workers, environmental phd students, CSR consultants, two sustainable transport experts, and many more.

Founded during the Reconstruction era in the late 1860s, Louisiana’s Freedpeople’s communities have been sites of collective resilience and inclusive development for a century and a half. Collective resources like benevolent associations, schools, and churches were community infrastructures for surviving and thriving amidst waves of post-Reconstruction racial exclusion.
These institutions notably gave rise to the grassroots environmental justice movement in the mid to late twentieth century.
Today, residents in these communities draw on these institutions and cultural traditions to articulate a vision of inclusive resilience planning for protection in the present and future.

This Toolkit helps communicators explore people-centered connections to climate change, using a three-step process to develop engaging, site-relevant stories that move audiences to awareness and action. An accompanying worksheet helps interpreters implement the three-step approach. Although developed for National Park Service employees, interpreters and communicators from other organizations may find History and Hope equally useful.

Participants will practice how to effectively use bridging and pivoting to navigate challenging conversations and shape public understanding. Whether you need some practice flexing those framing muscles, or are new to bridging and pivoting, this session is for you!

Join game designer Alix Dvorak and NNOCCI member Lisa Yeager in playing an online version of Green House - a cooperative game that focuses on real-life climate solutions.
You'll have the option of observing or jumping into the game play during this session. Either way, you'll experience the game first hand, and hear how it's being used in the heart of climate training for volunteer informal educators at Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo.