The four functions of shared infrastructure
Climate Commons operates through four integrated functions. Each one is a piece of the shared infrastructure. Together, they make every organization, creator, and communicator in the climate movement more effective.
Our Programs
Message Intelligence
The research engine
We commission shared audience research — quantitative polling, social listening, message testing — across the audience segments and geographies that actually decide political outcomes.
The findings will be published openly. Which frames resonate, with which audiences, delivered by which messengers. What triggers defensiveness, and what opens doors. How energy security performs relative to climate and jobs across different demographics.
Today, this research is either done expensively by individual organizations and kept private, published at a level so high it's not actionable, or produced for a single campaign so narrow it can't scale across the movement. We're changing that — making message intelligence a shared resource that dramatically lowers the cost for every organization in the ecosystem and raises the quality of messaging for all of them.
The Commons
The coordination network
The Commons is the relationship infrastructure through which message intelligence moves across the ecosystem in real time.
Members share access to the research, participate in shared narrative framework development, and coordinate their communications around agreed moments and frames. When a policy rollback happens, when a project gets attacked, when a narrative window opens — the ecosystem responds with one coherent voice, because the shared language and relationships already exist.
The Commons is designed to be light-touch. Organizations keep complete autonomy over their own communications. What changes is that they're rowing in the same direction as everyone else.
The founding cohort is forming now. We're recruiting 20 organizations who commit to adopting the shared narrative framework, coordinating around one major issue moment, and contributing their learnings back into the common resource.
Crash Courses
The on-ramp
In-person intensives that bring new communicators — organization staff, creators, campaign professionals — into the ecosystem with shared language, shared strategy, and shared community.
Crash Courses are not generic communications training. The curriculum is built directly on the message intelligence findings: participants leave with the specific frames, tested language, and practical tools that the research says work with their target audiences.
The first Crash Course is set for Year One. The goal is twofold — seed the network with trained communicators who share a common foundation, and generate a community of practice that sustains itself long after the intensive ends.
Climate Action Pathways
The messenger and campaign layer
This is how the intelligence generated by the engine reaches audiences at scale.
CAP brings creators and messengers into the Commons community. They get access to the research, the narrative framework, and the peer network. Then we coordinate their organic content around shared themes and moments.
Creators who have genuinely learned something and choose to integrate it into their existing work carry far more audience trust than paid posts ever will. CAP is the mechanism by which that trust is activated at scale across the movement.