Please join us at any of the meetings and events hosted by 350 Maine groups! Some of our allies' events are also listed (RSVP may be required). You can click on the event for more information, including location and a contact for more details.

350 Maine is currently leading campaigns aimed at addressing key components of the climate justice movement. Check out our Youth Engagement page to learn more about our current initiatives, or scroll down to see our past ones. 

350 Maine Past Actions

April 2020 - Earth Day Virtual Art Build

350 Maine members joined virtually for a Zoom art build calling for an end to fossil fuel finance. 350 Maine artists led participants in creating banners demanding an end to the money pipeline that finances the fossil fuel industry. #ArttoStoptheMoneyPipeline.

For more on our 3 days of Earth Day online action, click here!

March 2020 - Transportation Webinar

Held with MYCJ and the Natural Resources Council of Maine, this webinar focused on what climate action is needed in the Transportation Sector of Maine. It was followed by a youth focused discussion and Question and Answer time.

January 2020 - Youth Voices Day

As a member of the coalition Maine Climate Action NOW! we hosted 100 youth to come together in Augusta for the Maine Climate Council meeting to share their activism with each other, hold a press conference and meet the Council members over lunch.

December 2019 - School Strikes

This youth-led climate strike, supported by 350 Maine, at Portland City Hall demanded that the state of Maine declare a climate emergency. Youth leaders spoke about the importance of the climate emergency movement then held a lie-in that corresponded with the December 6th global climate strike. 

November 2019 - Megadamage Speaking Tour

Co-Hosted a North American Megadam Resistance Alliance event with the Sierra Club Maine Chapter.

October 2019

Member volunteers act as adult allies and partner in on-going work with youth in Portland and South Portland to meet with the cities' Sustainability Officers to closely follow their joint climate change initiative as follow through on the Climate Emergency Declarations.

September 2019 - Climate emergency resolutions

The Global Climate Strikes lead to immediate steps by municipal governments following when youth’s presentations of demands and a draft climate emergency resolution calling for bold and immediate action within a 2030 timeframe. These resolutions were adopted by Brunswick, Bar Harbor, Portland, and South Portland City Councils.

September 2019 - Global Climate Strikes, supported by 350 Maine, occurred throughout Maine

As part of an International Day of Global Climate Strikes adults joined youth in stopping business as usual and we saw record numbers rallying in Portland (2,000) Bangor, Bar Harbor and Farmington where hundreds amassed, and Machias where 50 gathered (2% of the population!) 350 Maine worked alongside intergenerational allies to organize these strikes while in other towns many independently gathered.

April 2019

Youth Day of Action

About 400 Maine youth from 20 schools—elementary, middle, high school, and college—left school to demand that climate justice be a priority for all state lawmakers. The Youth Day of Action was organized by Maine Youth for Climate Justice, and supported by adult allies and organizations involved in the Maine Climate Action coalition, including 350 Maine. 

March 2019 

Youth Climate Strikes, supported by 350 Maine, occurred throughout Maine

Hundreds to thousands of Maine youth walked out of their schools or workplaces across Maine on Friday March 15th. This was organized as part of an international day of strikes for climate action. These young people ranged from elementary school to college students. 350 Maine's youth engagement team, along with many other intergenerational organizations, utilized their organizing resources to support these student organizers. Read more here.

January 2019 

Window Dressers Community Workshop in South Portland

December 2018 

Window Dressers Community Workshop in Machias

October 2018

Candlelight Rally for #TrialoftheCentury

In support of #youthvgov plaintiffs in Juliana v. United States.

September 2018 

RISE for CLIMATE, JOBS and JUSTICE

350 Maine, Sierra Club Maine, Maine Conservation Voters, and the Maine Poor People's Campaign, led a march to a City Hall rally as part of a worldwide mobilization which took place days before the Global Climate Summit in San Francisco.

May 2018

Maine Climate Protectors petition to the Department of Environmental Protection

Maine Youth and Voters get their hearing with the DEP.

September 2017

Launch of 100% Clean Renewable Energy Campaign

April 2017

People’s Climate Marches, Augusta and Washington D.C.

350 Maine organized art builds, bus-fills and supported members attending both marches.

April 2016

Break Free (from fossil fuel) Albany, NY

350 New England joined 350 NY and NJ to stage a rally, march, and sit-in on railroad tracks to stop crude oil “bomb” trains rolling through Albany, NY endangering nearby communities and adding to the climate crisis.

2015-present

Penobscot Nation – Justice for the River

In an on-going relationship with the Penobscot Nation, 350 Maine stands in solidarity in the fight to protect the nation’s river and subsistence fishing rights in the legal battle with the State of Maine. When asked to stand with them and Standing Rock in 2016, 350 Maine participated in several coalition sponsored events.

November and December 2015

Road through Paris:

Art Build and Rally, Portland: Painting signs with school children that were marched to a rally in Monument Square marking the opening of COP21

Jobs, Justice, Climate - March, Boston: In coalition with 350 NE, union, faith and other climate organizations, 350 Maine joined the rally and march on the Boston Common

October-November 2014

350 Greater Portland formed

350 Maine joined the Sierra Club to organize the first Climate Action Team Conference in Brunswick.

September 2014

People's Climate March, NYC

350 Maine organized biking and buses to bring Mainers to the march.

June 2014

5th Annual Healing Walk in Alberta, Canada

350 Maine leaders wanted to connect the front line communities of Mobile, Alabama and Houston, Texas, affected by the tar sands infrastructure development, to the indigenous communities in Alberta affected by the pits and its infrastructure/pollution.

A broad coalition raised funds so the Americans could join the Healing Walk to be in solidarity with Indigenous peoples of Alberta. They witnessed the tar sands pits’ devastating impacts undermining their right to clean air, clean water.

January 2014

Tar Sands Speaking Tour – 10 talks in ME, NH, VT, MA, Canada

The reversal of Portland Pipe Line Corporation’s pipeline to bring tar sands to South Portland was a threat to the city, but tar sands was a reality in Alberta. Working with a broad coalition of environmental organizations the Tar Sands Team chose to highlight this big picture to the region. They arranged presentations by First Nation Representatives (Athabasca Chipewyan and Beaver Lake Cree) of Canada and internationally awarded photographer.

August-November 2013

Protect South Portland

Together with Protect South Portland and other environmental groups, 350 Maine backed a referendum against tar sands coming through Portland Pipe Line. Door-to-door and telephone canvassing; Hands-Across the Bridge and other large demonstrations took place.

July 2013

Sebago Flotilla

Staged along with a flotilla of rafts and kayaks on Sebago Lake, street theater (on Route 302 in Raymond) of an ‘oil spill clean-up’ dramatized the threat posed by piped tar sands to Maine’s water supply.

June 2013

Train Blockade - Fairfield, Maine

Activists blockaded train tracks in protest of Bakaan crude oil passing through to the New Brunswick oil refinery. 9 days later a similar oil train exploded in Lac Megantic, Quebec killing 47 people and destroying the downtown.

January 2013

Climate Rally

Working in coalition with others, 350 Maine organized Portland’s largest Climate Rally ever; sounding the alarm against tar sands coming from Montreal to South Portland through the Portland Pipe Line.

November 2012

Bill McKibben Do the Math Tour

Standing room only at 350 Maine event at the State Theater in Portland.

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