About
Where We Come From
After years working to build a more ambitious climate justice movement, we’re piloting new strategies to win our survival. Learn about how we got here.
Our Origins
As the disasters mounted around us, we knew that something had to change.
It was 2022. The Climate Mobilization had passed Climate Emergency Declarations and other ambitious policies in more than 200 communities. But the climate movement was in crisis. Despite widespread support, millions of people saw the movement as irrelevant, alienating, or without a pathway to win.
So we launched Climate Survival:
A new strategy for the climate movement to lead through climate disasters, economic crises, and political instability.
The Climate Survival movement builds sustainable strategies to meet our basic needs:
food
energy
water
land
and care.
We’re building up local sovereignty over these resources.
It’s economic self-determination – taking our future into our own hands, so that we don’t keep having to support the systems that have failed us. And it’s a strategy to grow our movements. By showing our ability to govern and lead, we build the power we need to win more changes, here and now.
Our biggest source of support is individual contributions from people like you.
You’ll be in control of your giving and can cancel at any time.
“Every disaster is an opening for us to build an alternative world.”
Our Evolution
Founded in 2015, The Climate Mobilization has a track record of building climate organizations’ skills in:
Community organizing
Climate policy
Coalition building
Racial and economic justice
Our programs have trained 850+ individuals in community organizing and led to the passage of more than 200 climate emergency emergency declarations in the US.
In 2021-2022, we developed dozens of leaders and facilitated movement education, trainings, and peer exchanges for 40+ groups through Climate Mobilization Network, which transformed groups’ impacts in their communities and built power for frontline struggles. We also launched victorious frontline community-led transportation, housing and climate justice groups in Acton, MA and Sonoma County, CA.
The Climate Mobilization has:
organized tenants and won renter protections for working-class people at the frontlines of the housing crisis;
sparked hundreds of transit riders to participate in a campaign that won $1.4 million dollars for express bus service and fare free transit;
and won EV charging access for renters, and funding for a pilot renters rights education program.
In 2022, after seeking counsel from dozens of movement leaders, we began developing a new strategy for the movement’s next era:
Climate Survival
Within just a few months, this vision generated a stunning response, leading to:
The Climate Mobilization’s largest mass calls in its organizational history;
workshops that have trained more than 1,650+ people in the Climate Survival framework;
and dozens of organizations signing up to orient their own work toward this vision and helping build the movement in addition to the local communities where we work more intensively.
Climate Emergency
to Climate Survival
