MEEA's Maine Environmental Changemakers Network connects young Mainers from diverse backgrounds who are passionate about the environment with peer and professional mentors. Changemakers provides training and resources to support environmental actions that participants organize in their communities. Photo credit: MEEA
April 22 marks the 52nd annual Earth Day, a celebration of the beginning of the modern environmentalism movement.
Podcast guests Red Fong and Olivia Griset, co-directors of the Maine Environmental Education Association (MEEA), talk about the history of the field, how Maine educators are teaching it today, and how MEEA is looking at environmentalism through an equity lens.
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Maine Community Foundation donors helped fund the Relearning Place Convening, a summit this May that will bring together Black, Indigenous, other people of color, and others from across the Northeast for three days of building relationships, sharing resources, and developing cross-racial coalitions and solidarity networks.
Founded in 1982, MEEA supports and advocates for both informal and formal environmental education professionals as they work to build a more just, environmentally literate, and civically-engaged Maine. MEEA advocates for the importance of outdoor learning and environmental education, convenes training and workshops to support educator professional learning, nurtures youth leadership, and mobilizes resources to advance environmental education and outdoor learning throughout Maine.
