Templates
We are building this out with example templates and resources – to help you talk to your elected representatives, to industry managers, to media editors, and more.
LETTERS
Here we provide a template with handy hints on how to set the tone of a meeting, how to connect to the representative, and how to get to the point.
Other Sites for Letter Resources
- Global:
- Although this letter has a former U.S. Representative listed, the guidelines and talking points it provides regarding the climate crisis are excellent for any politician anywhere. http://world.350.org/pensacola/files/2015/01/Letter-Guidelines-Senator-Rubio.pdf.
- This site provides a general framework: https://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/climate-change-letter.html.
- U.S.: The group Elders Climate Action, https://www.eldersclimateaction.org/sendaletter/, has templates/scripts for U.S. members of Congress and state legislators that are sent through their website, as well as letters to banks and finance groups, businesses, and newspaper editors. You will probably want to edit the letters (finish filling out your name, etc., first), as, uhm, there are typos and some old versions; also, We also are not fans of all caps in some of these. And please remember to personalize, as mentioned above. Include your story in this.
- U.S. – specific issues: Some others can be found here: CCL (regarding the carbon fee legislation: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/write-congress-now/#/14/) ….
- For the U.K. here’s a good guide with template: https://www.campaigncc.org/lobbying_mps. Here’s another from Hope for the Future: https://hftf.squarespace.com/template-letters.
- Australia: https://www.climateforchange.org.au/mpegs_writing; this second one is more of a guide than a template: https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/how-to-write-an-effective-letter-to-your-mp/.
Testimonial Examples
How does one write concise testimony? Start with an interesting, personal fact, and dive in – relating that fact to the issue.
Download: gndc-testimony-to-the-dc-city-council-2018
Presentations
We at Climate Steps would like to share some of our Presentations and their Templates. For mainly Templates for powerpoints, which you are free to use without asking, see below. For more complicated Presentations, look at our Resource>Presentations page (coming!), where we present the PDFs. We are happy to provide training on these before the presentation.
