The Climate Psychologist

We Marched Together in Climate Truth, Together: Now We Mobilize

by Margaret Klein SalamonLiving in Climate Truth, Social Movements, The Climate MobilizationPosted on September 25, 2014September 25, 2014One Comment

Attending the People’s Climate March was exhilarating for many reasons. In the coming months, we must not let the feeling dissipate, as media attention languishes, and the memory of the march slips away. The question is how. I was there with a small team from The Climate Mobilization—a grassroots organization or “social movement start-up”—and we …

First Video! Introducing The Climate Mobilization

by Margaret Klein SalamonClimate Change Denial, Climate psychology, Strategy, The Climate Mobilization, VideoPosted on September 23, 2014No Comments

What a weekend! The People’s Climate March was an absolutely outstanding, beautiful experience, and The Climate Mobilization had a great launch! Here is a brief update on our March activities. We talked with tons of Marchers about the Pledge, gained many allies, and received an exciting, if surprising, amount of press attention! But since this is …

Climate Mobilization Presentation: Saturday

by Margaret Klein SalamonSocial Movements, The Author, The Climate MobilizationPosted on September 16, 2014One Comment

This Saturday, the night before the People’s Climate March, the Climate Mobilization will be having our first public meeting. I will be giving a presentation, Ezra Silk and Ryan Brill, the other cofounders, will also speak. Then we will have Pledge giving and a strategy discussion based on the question, “How can each of us …

Rising to the Challenge of Our Time, Together: Introducing the Pledge to Mobilize

by Margaret Klein SalamonSocial Movements, Strategy, The Climate MobilizationPosted on September 10, 2014No Comments

Below is Rising to the Challenge of Our Time, Together–the strategy document for The Climate Mobilization. (Or read it as a PDF) It was written by myself and Ezra Silk, with help from several allies especially Phillip Sutton, who basically wrote the appendix. It is an update of Rising which was published in February. We came a long way as an organization …

Demands for the People’s Climate March and Beyond: Introducing the Pledge To Mobilize

by Margaret Klein SalamonSocial Movements, Strategy, The Climate MobilizationPosted on September 9, 2014September 11, 2014No Comments

A Movement and a March: Full of Possibilities The People’s Climate March September 21st will likely be the largest march for climate action that has ever taken place. We should be grateful to the organizers and sponsoring organizations for putting so much time, energy, and resources into persuading tens (or hundreds!) of thousands of people to come …