Clean Energy and Environmental Campaigns

This course is about the strategies and tactics used by successful clean energy and environmental campaigns, taught from a practitioner's perspective. It is also a course about clean energy and environmental policymaking. Policy doesn’t just happen the way it’s described in civics textbooks. And it isn’t just policymakers who make it. Corporate and civic interests play critical roles at all levels of policymaking. As future participants in the policy process, whether you come at it from a perch in government, business, as an advocate, or as a private citizen, you can jumpstart your ability to participate and respond by understanding how policy campaign advocacy impacts policymaking. Though this topic is neither well-documented nor regularly taught, there is a toolkit that can be learned. Most clean energy and environmental campaigners and policymakers learn about policy campaigning on the job. This course attempts to advance understanding of the policy making process by exposing graduate and professional students to recent case examples from the environmental policy making world.