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#RenewablePowerForAll: Writing & Pitching Opinion Pieces

July 17, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EDT

#RenewablePowerForAll: Writing & Pitching Opinion Pieces

Description

Join the #RenewablePowerForAll: Op-ed’s for Climate Solutions training with Gideon Foreman from the David Suzuki Foundation. Gideon has been doing powerful climate and environmental communications work for decades, including his work lately to stop the disastrous Highway 413 project in Ontario. Participants will learn best practices for writing and pitching opinion articles to news paper outlets of every size and audience. This session is the fourth training in a series that we’ll be hosting this Spring and Summer that will cover strategies and skills for effective climate solutions storytelling.

Gideon’s training is the last in a series we’re offering to our network of supporters to equip more people with the skills needed to bring the truth about the benefits of achieving 100 per cent renewable energy to people throughout Canada.

We’ve recorded the previous trainings for you, in case you want to check them out:

  • Public Narrative, a foundational organizing leadership skill with me, Katie Perfitt. Watch here.
  • Social media for #RenewablePowerForAll with social media strategist Jennifer Deol. Watch here.
  • Making viral videos with climate influencer Hazel Thayer. Watch here.

These sessions are led by some of the most skilled communicators in the climate movement and offer something for everyone — whether you’re new to social media as a tool for change or want to take on advanced media skills.

We hope that no matter what stage you are at in your advocacy journey, you’ll use these new skills so that together we can tell the truth about the benefits of renewables and put all the naysayers in their place.

Speaker

For decades, Gideon Forman has been using the art of storytelling to expose climate villains and uplift powerful stories of communities leading the way to a sustainable future.

If we want to win #RenewablePowerForAll, it’s going to take more of us finding our voices to share our powerful vision for a just, livable energy future with our family, friends and neighbours.

That’s why we’re enlisting Gideon’s help to share the skills needed to write and pitch opinion pieces for media, a skill set he has honed over years of hard-hitting campaign work.

This 1.5-hour training will take place on Wednesday, July 17, at 8 p.m. ADT / 7 p.m. EDT / 6 p.m. CDT / 5p.m. MDT / 4 p.m. PDT.

Registration

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYsc-GgqTMsE9a-qnXZrUHqeSx4JY2rAN5J?mkt_tok=MTg4LVZEVS0zNjAAAAGUNsSb0m2UUhfdTFdDsuZWjg6BKLRxH2e0yecJNuSOrsTZ2dwmBy7-3by5a1mjKX1CDndWg5lAiwLSdeUyjqjbMdqVOm_Qr-whs6vyREmLBBxA#/registration

Venue

Virtual
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