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September 2025 Newsletter
In this Issue
Framing the Conversation Registration is Open
From Course to Conversation: An Example of a Climate Story
Climate Hope & Action Month Updates and Event Line-Up
Help Us Choose Our First Shirt Design!
Continuing to Build Our Community
Registration for Framing the Conversation
Registration is NOW OPEN for our virtual course for all climate communicators, ‘Framing the Conversation: A Crash Course in Effective Climate Change Communication’!
There is a sliding scale available if cost is a barrier. Please contact Kait Birghenthal at BirghenthalK_temp@tmmc.org to confidentially see if you qualify for our limited scholarships.
Register Today! Spots are limited to 25 participants per cohort—first come, first served.
✨ This course is a great way to unify our voices around climate hope and action. Consider joining us this fall, or share with someone who might be interested!
From Course to Conversation: A Climate Story on Kelp Forests
Curious what a finished Climate Story from the Framing the Conversation ‘Crash Course’ looks like?
As part of NNOCCI’s 7–week Crash Course, participants learn to tell powerful climate stories using science-based strategic framing tools, such as values, metaphors, and solutions. From riding public transit to supporting clean energy, the choices we make near and far from shore can protect ocean ecosystems. One participant turned this message into a climate story to spark conversation about kelp forests — paired with her whimsical underwater photography.
This fall, the National Network for Ocean and Climate Change Interpretation (NNOCCI) invites you to join us for Climate Hope & Action Month—a series of inspiring webinars designed to support our members, welcome new audiences, and raise funds for a program that is internationally impactful but critically underfunded.
Most events take place in October, but we’re offering a special sneak peek on September 19 with our Climate Conversations Taster Session, led by our partners at Yes and Nature. This session will introduce their unique approach th
at blends climate and conservation science, communication, social science, and improvisational theater.
From there, October is packed with opportunities to learn and connect:
Learn the basics of values-based framing to make your communication more effective, with American Sign Language interpretation provided. *We will have American Sign Language (ASL) Interpretation during this presentation
Let best practices for talking about climate with young children, featuring Suzie’s storytelling, music, and even a special appearance from Sprout the Sunflower.
💡 Your participation matters. By joining us, and sharing these events with your networks, you’ll help strengthen climate communication that is hopeful, solutions-focused, and urgently needed around the world.
👉 Don’t miss out! REGISTER TODAY for all events above, and be part of NNOCCI’s Climate Hope & Action Month.
AZA Conference Meet-Up is Happening Now!
A cross-section of NNOCCI members are meeting up live and in person at week’s AZA conference in Tampa, FL. What are their hot topics? How many were there? It’s all late breaking news—we look forward to sharing out those details in next month’s newsletter.
In the meantime, is there another gathering or event where you’d like to see a NNOCCI meet-up? Let us know! Our regional coordinators are on the ground and ready to make things happen for and with you.
Help Us Choose Our First Shirt Design
We’ve heard you loud and clear: for years, members have asked if we’d ever sell shirts so they could show their NNOCCI pride. Well, the time has come!
This October, during our Climate Hope & Action Month, we’re launching our very first shirt campaign through Bonfire. Bonfire makes it easy for NNOCCI to raise proceeds that support our programs, while also preventing waste; shirts are printed and shipped only when they’re ordered.
Here’s where you come in. We want your input to decide which shirt designs to launch. We’ll start with two or three options, and hopefully add more over time. Please complete the short survey linked below by Tuesday, September 30.
Thank you for helping us shape this new way to share NNOCCI pride. Stay tuned in October for the launch!
This survey uses ranked choice voting, so you can rank your favorite designs instead of picking just one. This way, the final choices best reflect what the whole community supports - the same reason RCV is so powerful in making decisions about big issues like climate change.
Building Community, Together.
NNOCCI thrives by connecting audiences to action through shared values. As members, you can help us build our community of practitioners in currently underrepresented populations by leveraging existing relationships within these spaces.
Which communities are we trying to reach? Historically underrepresented demographics as well as people and places currently unrepresented in our membership (ex. the states of Arkansas, Kansas, North and South Dakota).
Why are we asking you to help? Research shows that word of mouth is powerful. NNOCCI invites everyone to join the conversation, and people are more willing to accept an invitation from someone they know.
You are receiving this email because you are an integral part of our NNOCCI network. Thank you for framing your climate communications as hopeful and solutions-oriented!
Our mailing address is: National Network for Ocean and Climate Change Interpretation 2000 Bunker Road The Marine Mammal Center Sausalito, CA 94965-2619
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