by Michael Grossman | Jun 11, 2020 | Climate Change, Delivering Your Message, Elections/Public Policy
“It takes two years to learn how to speak and sixty to learn how to keep quiet.”–Ernest Hemmingway As the COVID-19 crisis has played out, I’ve been watching with increasing unease how some in the climate action community are...
by Michael Grossman | Aug 10, 2019 | Climate Change, Delivering Your Message, Elections/Public Policy, Uncategorized
It’s the personal, stupid. Every year, more and more Americans tell pollsters they believe in climate change, yet insufficient action has been taken by business and government to solve the problem. Welcome to the world of the communicating climate change...
by Michael Grossman | Mar 25, 2019 | Climate Change, Elections/Public Policy
The Democratic slate of candidates running for President in 2020 has been rounded out with the delightfully appropriate “oops” announcement of former Vice President, Joe Biden. Now, attention turns to matters like what differentiates 15 left of...
by Michael Grossman | Feb 18, 2019 | Climate Change, Elections/Public Policy
It moves us one step closer to the low carbon economy of the future. Before I’m voted out of the club for heresy, there’s much I admire about the recently released Ed Markey/Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sponsored Green New Deal. Much of it I’d...
by Michael Grossman | Jan 17, 2019 | Climate Change, Elections/Public Policy
Governors’ State of the State addresses kicked off legislative sessions in a majority of states this week, and it gave us the first glimpses of what kind of action on climate change we could see at the state level in 2019. In the West, which has already...
by Michael Grossman | Nov 7, 2018 | Elections/Public Policy, Storytelling
Creating your brand around a compelling story and staying true to that brand story yields good results. I learned storytelling in the binary world of political campaigns, and one of the things that’s stuck with me all of these years later is, absent...