Upcoming Events
Youth Climate Justice Network
Youth Climate Justice Network is open to anyone under 30 who is interested in connecting with other climate-conscious youth in Maine.
The structure will include a 20-30 minute presentation on a climate justice topic or training, followed by 20-30 minutes for attendees to share events, opportunities, and resources with one another and foster connections with other young people working for climate justice in Maine communities.
Youth Climate Justice Network
Youth Climate Justice Network is open to anyone under 30 who is interested in connecting with other climate-conscious youth in Maine.
The structure will include a 20-30 minute presentation on a climate justice topic or training, followed by 20-30 minutes for attendees to share events, opportunities, and resources with one another and foster connections with other young people working for climate justice in Maine communities.
Youth Climate Justice Network
Youth Climate Justice Network is open to anyone under 30 who is interested in connecting with other climate-conscious youth in Maine.
The structure will include a 20-30 minute presentation on a climate justice topic or training, followed by 20-30 minutes for attendees to share events, opportunities, and resources with one another and foster connections with other young people working for climate justice in Maine communities.
Youth Climate Justice Network
Youth Climate Justice Network is open to anyone under 30 who is interested in connecting with other climate-conscious youth in Maine.
The structure will include a 20-30 minute presentation on a climate justice topic or training, followed by 20-30 minutes for attendees to share events, opportunities, and resources with one another and foster connections with other young people working for climate justice in Maine communities.
How Youth Can Unite Communities for Local Solutions to Climate Change
We’re so excited to join The Climate Initiative for a discussion on youth led climate solutions hosted by Bath Climate Commission!
Join us in-person in Brunswick or on Zoom!
Constituent Collective
Join Maine Youth for Climate Justice for a casual, supportive space where we come together to call our representatives about urgent climate and justice issues. We'll start with a quick circle-up to introduce ourselves and highlight key topics to call about, then go cameras-off to make our calls. Afterward, we’ll regroup to share who we contacted and how it went. Whether it’s your first call or your fiftieth, you're not alone. Let’s take action together!
Constituent Collective
Join Maine Youth for Climate Justice for a casual, supportive space where we come together to call our representatives about urgent climate and justice issues. We'll start with a quick circle-up to introduce ourselves and highlight key topics to call about, then go cameras-off to make our calls. Afterward, we’ll regroup to share who we contacted and how it went. Whether it’s your first call or your fiftieth, you're not alone. Let’s take action together!
Constituent Collective
Join Maine Youth for Climate Justice for a casual, supportive space where we come together to call our representatives about urgent climate and justice issues. We'll start with a quick circle-up to introduce ourselves and highlight key topics to call about, then go cameras-off to make our calls. Afterward, we’ll regroup to share who we contacted and how it went. Whether it’s your first call or your fiftieth, you're not alone. Let’s take action together!
Youth Climate Justice Network
Youth Climate Justice Network is open to anyone under 30 who is interested in connecting with other climate-conscious youth in Maine.
The structure will include a 20-30 minute presentation on a climate justice topic or training, followed by 20-30 minutes for attendees to share events, opportunities, and resources with one another and foster connections with other young people working for climate justice in Maine communities.
Constituent Collective
Join Maine Youth for Climate Justice for a casual, supportive space where we come together to call our representatives about urgent climate and justice issues. We'll start with a quick circle-up to introduce ourselves and highlight key topics to call about, then go cameras-off to make our calls. Afterward, we’ll regroup to share who we contacted and how it went. Whether it’s your first call or your fiftieth, you're not alone. Let’s take action together!
Constituent Collective
Join Maine Youth for Climate Justice for a casual, supportive space where we come together to call our representatives about urgent climate and justice issues. We'll start with a quick circle-up to introduce ourselves and highlight key topics to call about, then go cameras-off to make our calls. Afterward, we’ll regroup to share who we contacted and how it went. Whether it’s your first call or your fiftieth, you're not alone. Let’s take action together!
Youth Climate Justice Network
Youth Climate Justice Network is open to anyone under 30 who is interested in connecting with other climate-conscious youth in Maine.
The structure will include a 20-30 minute presentation on a climate justice topic or training, followed by 20-30 minutes for attendees to share events, opportunities, and resources with one another and foster connections with other young people working for climate justice in Maine communities.
Summer Picnic
MYCJ X MYP Summer Picnic
Join Maine Youth Power (MYP) and Maine Youth for Climate Justice (MYCJ) on Saturday, July 26th at 4pm for a summer cookout at Glen Cove Park in Rockport, ME!
After a busy legislative session, we invite current and prospective members to come together for a casual hangout where we can connect, eat, and discuss ways to get involved moving forward.
Food and refreshments will be provided, but attendees are welcome to bring their own! So we can get a proper head count, please RSVP below.
Where: Glen Cove Park, Rockport, ME 04846
When: Saturday, July 26th, 4pm to 6pm (Rain Date: Saturday, August 2nd, 4pm to 6pm)
Queer Earth - June Teach-In for Youth
Queer Earth: Exploring the Intersections of Queerness & Climate Justice
Join us for a Pride themed teach-in with the MYCJ team as we dive into the shared histories and futures of the queer rights and climate justice movements.
📅 June 17th | 5 PM
Addressing PFAS Contamination in Maine - May Teach-In for Youth
Addressing PFAS Contamination in Maine: A Teach In for Youth
Join us for a teach-in on PFAS contamination with Sarah Woodbury VP of Policy & Advocacy at Defend Our Health. Learn how these toxic “forever chemicals” impact our communities—and what we can do about it.
Floating Offshore Wind 101
Learn about the climate and economic benefits of offshore wind: the jobs created, how it fits with Maine’s Climate Action Plan, and how a port will benefit our region. Free pizza and childcare will be provided.
Fix the Grid: Rally for Reform
The community group 'Fix the Grid' created a scorecard report evaluating all the electric grid operators in the country on measures of governance and accountability. Our New England grid operator received a failing grade for governing our electric grid with accessibility, transparency and accountability! Join us to deliver their 'F' scorecard to Maine's Public Utilities Commission (PUC) in Hallowell on Wednesday, May 14th at 11am. We'll ask the PUC for reforms!
Youth Day of Action 2025
Youth Day of Action
April 17th, 2025
10 am - 1 pm
Maine State House
Augusta, ME
Across the globe, young people are leading the fight for bold climate action and climate justice. What’s on your climate agenda? On April 17th Maine Youth for Climate Justice, MEEA Changemakers, JustME for JustUS, Maine Youth Power, Community Organizing Alliance, and Young People’s Caucus will be hosting a Youth Day of Action at the State House in Augusta.
This event will be a day for youth in Maine to mobilize and present our vision and demands for our future. The day will include a rally, press conference, lobbying, and networking. We are also working on a livestream of the event.
This event is free, and transportation assistance is available.
Please direct any questions to info@mycj.org
What If We Get It Right? - An Evening with Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Join SPACE Gallery, Sierra Club Maine, Print, and a coalition of environmental organizations at Hannaford Hall for a special appearance by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, a marine biologist, policy expert, writer, and teacher working to help create the best possible climate future. Johnson will be joined by special guest performers and discussing her provocative and joyous new book that asks the important question, “What If We Get It Right?”
This special evening is a homecoming celebration for the book, as Dr. Johnson currently serves as the Roux Distinguished Scholar at Bowdoin College, and culminates her 28 stop book tour across the country, including signature “climate variety show” events.
Through clear-eyed essays and 20 vibrant conversations, infused with data, poetry, and art, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson guides us through solutions and possibilities at the nexus of science, policy, culture, and justice. Sugarcoating nothing, while imagining the myriad of opportunities we have to still get the future “right,” Johnson’s book invites musings from friends and contributors across the fields of culture and science. Visionary farmers and financiers, architects and advocates, help us conjure a flourishing future, one worth the effort it will take—from every one of us, with whatever we have to offer—to create.
In October and November, SPACE Gallery is thrilled to present the work of Olalekan Jeyifous in the SPACE Window Gallery, a visual artist featured in the book and part of Dr. Johnson’s curatorial project “Climate Futurism” which began at Pioneer Works in 2023. Jeyifous’s newly commissioned works are an extension of his project Frozen Neighborhoods, which reimagines Brooklyn from the 1990s on an alternate timeline—set within an alternate world in which the government combats climate change through a market-based system of so-called “mobility credits” that curtails movement of the poor and working classes.
Books will be available for purchase through Print: A Bookstore, and local environmental orgs will table in support of their work in the Hannaford Hall lobby.
$5 sugg. donation
Presented by SPACE Gallery at Hannaford Hall with support from:
Made possible with support from Becky Bartovics, Roger Berle and Lesley MacVane.
Models for Community Equity Ownership in Offshore Wind
Join us and Maine Climate Action Now on the evening of Wednesday, October 23rd to learn about the different models of ownership that could play out in offshore wind and explore possible realities regarding shared ownership or profit sharing.
A panel of experts will briefly describe models such as community investment; federal ownership; state ownership; public/private partnership; and cooperative ownership. After the presentation, a moderator will facilitate questions to the panel delving more deeply into abstract possibilities and on-the-ground realities on this topic.
Monthly Teach-In for Youth
Disability and Climate Justice
Wednesday, September 17th, 5 PM, on Zoom - For our September Teach-In for Youth, we'll be joined by Izzy Bailey, a Rehabilitation Counselor at the Division for the Blind & Visually Impaired in the Maine Department of Labor. Izzy will help us dig into the intersection of disability and climate justice. Discover how climate change disproportionately affects people with disabilities and how their voices and experiences are crucial in crafting inclusive, equitable environmental solutions.