#BeCOOLforClimate

a climate conversation tool

COOL is a four‑point prompt sequence that helps people navigate climate conversations with confidence, clarity, and critical thinking.

C-O-O-L stands for: Clarify your actions, Observe your impacts, Own your responsibility, and Live your values

It’s a discussion map designed to help both individuals and organizations communicate clearly, make meaningful choices, and push for the systemic changes needed to protect and beautify our home planet.

Clarify your actions

Map out what we know, identify what we don't know, and strip away the corporate greenwashing to find the baseline truth.

Question: Is this position backed by reliable evidence, or is it supported by unproven claims?

Observe your impacts

Look beneath the surface at the background data, material supply chains, and underlying policy factors that keep the problem in place.

Question: How do these operational structures and supply chains drive the broader problem?

Own your responsibility

Test out a highly doable, small-scale alternative in your own life or organization to actively challenge the status quo.

Question: What specific decisions are within your immediate power to change, pivot, or stop right now?

Live your values

Evaluate the real-world results of your trial, see what worked, and turn that successful experiment into a new baseline.

Question: Do your habits and decisions match the values you say matter?

License

Attribution

Please credit: "BeCOOLforClimate" by Heather Succio (Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)