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Stories from Maine

This page is all about sharing amazing stories of youth leadership and youth-led change right here in Maine. Do you have a story to feature? Email Molly  or post it in one the success sharing forums in the online communities groups (members only), which is one of the places we'll go to get ideas for this page.


Featured Story: Lincoln Academy Climate Action Club & the First Here, Then Everywhere Network

The Lincoln Academy Climate Action Club, led by Chloe Maxmin, Alex Hadik and Climate Action Club picture
Jeanette Schaible is an amazing group doing proactive work to raise awareness about and take action on environmental issues. The Climate Action Club is currently making news as a winner of the Best Buy Foundation's @15 Community Impact Challenge grant competition, which is sponsored by Youth Venture. The Climate Action Club's "venture" objective is to monitor power consumption and install solar panels throughout the Newcastle community as part of global warming awareness program which has already sold town-wide reusable bags, obtained a no-idling vehicle policy in the high school parking lot, and collected batteries and ink cartridges for recycling. Congrats to the Climate Action Club for winning this $5,000 grant to do some amazing work in the Newcastle area!

And the members of the Climate Action Club don't stop there! Chloe also founded First Here, Then Everywhere (FHTE), an online network for young environmentalists, in 2007. The mission of FHTE is to unite these young activists by

  1. providing a place where they can connect/collaborate and
  2. by featuring outstanding examples of youth environmentalists around the world.
FHTE has grown steadily and they are always looking for more young environmentalists to connect with, showcase on the website, and integrate into the global network. Their next project,
GoDu Networks (http://goduit.org/, which is still in development), is to expand the services of FHTE by providing support tools environmentalists around the world so they can track each others' progress on certain campaigns and download toolkits on how to run different types of environmental initiatives. Check out the First Here, Then Everywhere website to learn more.


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