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i Rural Climate Dialogues: citizensjuries a y� For climate solutions to work, they must be connected to community solutions.... Listening to communities about what they need is the only way to create policies that work on the ground and bring people together. -Tara Ritter, IATP From 2014 - 2020, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy partnered with the Center for New Democratic Processes (formerly Jefferson Center) to host Rural Climate Dialogues in five Minnesota counties: Stevens, Itasca, Winona, Redwood, and Murray. Conversations focused on community resilience and local energy systems, and brought together 15-21 randomly selected participants representative of the community, a form of engagement called the ''Citizens Jam." �IIIL Community Over the course of a session lasting 2-3 days, Microcosm participants (who were compensated for their time) got Sufficient Democrat', to know each other, established ground rules for I Time Studyor Conversationl discussion, heard presentations from local subject Citizens matter experts, debriefed and deliberated after each Jury presentation, collectively drafted a statement for their inimizing High Quality Biases Information neighbors, and voted to identify key community productive challenges. Deliberation Each RCD's recommendations have been shared widely: The most effective messengers of this information ore participants themselves. Participants hove presented their recommendations to their county commissions and city councils, state agency staff, the Rural Minnesota Energy Board and other local colloborotives. In every community, we hove also worked with the news media to write and broadcast follow-up articles and interviews about the event, and in some cases, to place opinion editorials from event participants and organizers. This ensures that RCD results ore transparent and fully available to the public. 34