OUR
SUCCESSES
Learn more about what we've been up to as a statewide coalition.
2024
Continued to lead stakeholder outreach and engagement in the Offshore Wind process in Maine in the mid-coast region
- Throughout 2024
Co-hosted with Maine Youth for Climate Justice a Models for Community Equity Ownership in Offshore Wind Forum
- October 2024
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MCAN Coalition virtual Fall Conferences
- September & November 2024
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Worked with Maine Labor Climate Council to secure resourced capacity for two tribes in Maine with the aim of better integrating Indigenous voices in the energy transition
- Throughout 2024
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Supported Wabanaki self-determination legislation as a member of the Wabanaki Alliance Coalition Field Team
- Throughout 2024
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Divest Maine campaign rally at Maine Public Employees Retirement System calling for implementation of Maine’s fossil fuel divestment law by their Board
- July 2024
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Co-hosted a Youth Climate Fiction writing workshop with The Telling Room in person for teens, Portland
- June 2024
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Climate Education Partnership with Fryeburg Academy faculty professional development
- June - August 2024
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Led Art as Activism workshop and art build at Center for an Ecology-Based Economy's 2030 Vision Climate Convergence
- May 2024
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MCAN Coalition in person gathering in Augusta
- May 2024
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2023
Crafting Your Own Climate Fiction virtual workshop
- October 2023
MCAN Science Portal included in New Maine Climate Education Hub
- September 2023​
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Hosted Climate Migration to Maine discussion panel
- September 2023
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Tell Your Story for Public Power virtual workshop
- August 2023
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Art Build for Pine Tree Power
- August 2023​
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Maine Climate Science Portal published on website
- June 2023
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Crafting your own Climate Poetry in-person workshop
- June 2023
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Received 501c3 status and grew staff & membership
- 2023
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Participated in drafting and passing into law offshore wind procurement bill
- 2023
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Continued leading Offshore Wind Inclusion & Equity group work in Maine
- 2023
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What does climate migration, globally and to Maine specifically, look like? Watch MCAN and Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition's 'Climate Migration to Maine' panel
- September 2023
2022
Climate Justice Crash Course published on website
- December 2022
Crafting Your Own Climate Story virtual workshop
- Spring and Fall 2022
Supported Youth Day of Action, Statehouse
- April 2022
Adult/Youth Partnerships in Climate Organizing virtual training
- April 2022
Board Members Attended Wabanaki REACH’s Decolonizing Conservation Communities Program
- Winter 2022
Climate Justice Crash Course Art Contest
- January 2022
Watch CEBE 2030 Vision's Keynote Speaker Lokotah Sanborn discuss colonialism at the heart of the climate crisis
- April 2022
2021
Expanded Our Coalition Membership
Member Organizations hosted Stop New England’s Greenwashing of Hydropower
- September 2021
Supported Maine Youth for Climate Justice’s Youth Day of Action for a Consumer Owned Utility, Statehouse
- June 2021
Virtual Lobbying Training for Youth
- June 2021
Virtual Facilitation Training for Youth
- February 2021
Volunteer Scientists Team starts creating Maine Climate Science Resource Portal content
- Winter 2021
“MCAN has provided youth with ally support and backing when Maine Youth for Climate Justice has pushed Maine's climate and environmental movements to be more intersectional, just oriented, urgent, and radical.”
2020
#VoteClimateJustice Campaign
- Fall 2020
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Intergenerational Team starts creating Climate Justice Crash Course
- Spring 2020
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Supported Maine Youth for Climate Justice’s Youth Voices Day coinciding with the Maine Climate Council’s first meeting, Augusta
- January 2020
2019
Youth Day of Action, Statehouse
- April 2019
Maine Climate Action Now founded
- January 2019
