Climate Generation
We envision a just, abundant earth beyond climate crisis.
08/21/2024
Our Executive Director Susan Phillips writes in this month's Letter from the Director's Table about the uncertainty of the future –– how we can use disciplined hope to choose to believe something good will happen and contribute to changing the world.
Read the full letter ⬇⬇⬇
https://climategen.org/blog/the-great-turning-and-the-great-learning/
The Great Turning and the Great Learning - Climate Generation I love a good podcast. I can listen while in the garden or the kitchen, the two spaces of my summer life. This season, I have been participating in a podcast club; together, we are listening to and studying the work of Joanna Macy through the podcast We are the Great Turning. And since a […]
08/20/2024
The new school year is here! For educators, that means you are be busy preparing classrooms and lesson plans. Climate Generation offers free curriculum, like our Experience Energy for grades 3-8, for ways you can elevate your classrooms and lesson plans. 📖 📓 📚
https://climategen.org/resources/
Climate Generation will be at the Minnesota State Fair on August 26th in the Eco Experience Building! We’ll share information about how schools, especially in Minnesota, are laboratories for climate solutions. Students, teachers, parents, administrators, and other community members can support school-related climate solutions in various ways, so stop by our table to learn more, or follow along on social media to learn with us!
08/16/2024
🎢 🍿 🌽 We can't wait to celebrate the great Minnesota get-together! We'll see you at the fair on August 26th in the Eco Experience Building and we'll be talking about how schools are solutions to climate change. There will be prizes, so look out for trivia on our stories!
08/15/2024
Educators, it's back-to-school season! 🍎
As you plan your curriculum, check out our free Experience Energy resource. This curriculum looks at energy use in interdisciplinary ways to explore the connections between our energy use and climate change impacts and solutions.
Our resource library has so many amazing resources to help guide your class through climate change conversations.
Download this free resource in our library: https://bit.ly/4fHoBEU
08/09/2024
Do you know a young person who cares about climate justice?
Exciting news! We have opened our registration for this year's Youth Environmental Activists Network.
Register here: https://climategen.org/youth-environmental-activists/sign-up-for-youth-environmental-activists-yea-programs-updates/
We are looking for paid leaders of our program who:
-Live in the Minneapolis/St.Paul/Metro
-Excited to Take climate change action in your school, build youth power, and advocate to your local-elected body
-Students between the ages of 14-18
-Available to participate in 4 monthly meetings, at 3 hours per week
All leaders receive a monthly stipend!
We were inspired by the Summer Institute For Climate Change Education, it was a treat to build community with educators across the nation and learn practical skills through case studies, expert talks, and localized cohort days.... Next year's institute can't come soon enough!
Andra Yeghoian, the Chief Innovation Officer at Ten Strands spoke on our plenary panel for the Summer Institute about the importance of understanding power dynamics when supporting youth in climate change decision-making at schools.
The Summer Institute for Climate Change Education was incredibly powerful this year. We couldn't have done it without our sponsors! Thank you Xcel Energy for making presentations like this one possible at the institute this year 📗 🍏
08/03/2024
✨Please give a warm welcome to Lee , our new Administrative Coordinator✨
Lee originally hails from the moody north shore of Boston but has happily been calling South Minneapolis home for five years. He has worked for Open Eye Theatre, in addition to other nonprofit and education settings. Lee holds a degree in English Literature and Theatre Arts. Outside of work, he enjoys swimming, thinking about art and occasionally making it.
We are over-the-top excited to have Lee on board!! Welcome 🎉 🎈
08/01/2024
We enjoyed being at LTD Brewing in Hopkins on Monday! This was our final in person gathering this summer, and sharing community with everyone who came was such a joy. Thank you to all who came out to support our work and play bingo with us!
07/22/2024
Climate Generation is hosting climate trivia and climate conversations at LTD Brewing in Hopkins! Come join us for our final community happy hour of the season on Monday, July 29th from 6-8pm
If you missed it, our Summer Institute kickoff plenary panel was amazing -- you can access the recording here
07/19/2024
This Summer Institute has left us rejuvenated, inspired, and ready to be changemakers in our communities -- we couldn't have done it without the support of our sponsors! Thank you Best Buy, Old National Bank Xcel Energy Minnesota, Two Bettys Green Cleaning Company, and Peace Coffee!
"climate literacy must include the word functional.” 💯 💯 💯
At this year’s , Amelia Cook, Sustainability Science Manager and Tribal Liaison at the South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center spoke to over 300 educators about what’s needed in climate change education people-centered in our plenary panel alongside Ten Strands and the Main Department of Education.
When we connect climate change science to the intersectional nature of climate change, we invite students to see themselves fitting into the various skills, industries, and backgrounds needed to address it, in a way that builds both trust and engagement.
Climate change solutions are made in the classroom, at home, and within our communities. This year we are celebrating the people that make climate change solutions possible! We've invited leaders in climate science, environmental and social justice, and education to better understand how we can create localized opportunities for climate change education and action.
The Summer Institute couldn't happen without the powerful speakers who share their knowledge and expertise with our community!
Education is a climate solution. Students, administrators, caregivers, and community leaders all have a role to play in mobilizing their communities to create transformational climate action through education. Join leaders from across the country to hear how school communities and community-based educational initiatives are proactively working to create transformational climate action.
Join speakers Yvonne Mongare, Amelia Cook, Andrea Yeghoian, and Teddy Lyman to as we open the Summer Institute for Climate Change Education and begin learning together.
07/12/2024
We CANNOT wait for the Summer Institute next week!! Registration is now closed, but you can still join us for our kickoff plenary panel on Monday, July 15th at 11:30 am! See you there: https://bit.ly/3XH53Ke
Earlier this year, our policy manager B. Rosas spoke at the Rise and Repair Lobby Day. Climate Generation is working to promote climate change education while we support educators and young people in navigating the climate crisis. ⭐ 🌎 💚
07/05/2024
We can't wait for the Summer Institute for Climate Change Education! The Teach Climate Network's three-day climate change education conference is built by educators and climate change professionals from across the US, Canada, and the Pacific Islands. We have amazing speakers, panels, and fun planned for the conference. Today is the last day to register -- See you there! 🌼
07/01/2024
We are still hiring! Please share with your networks:
Do you know someone with grant writing and fundraising experience? We're hiring a full time Fund Development Manager! This position will join our team to support fundraising and grant management efforts.
The Fund Development Manager provides strategic and tactical resource development and revenue building efforts from institutional and individual donors. This position provides leadership for prospecting research, writing, submitting and reporting on funding requests to institutional donors, and partners with the Executive Director on individual donor efforts. The description includes:
⭐ Prospecting research of current and new institutional funders.
⭐ Ensure institutional gift solicitation is entered into the Raiser’s Edge database.
⭐ Creates and meets annual institutional fundraising goals.
⭐ Stewards relationships with institutional funders, develops and writes regular communications to institutional donors.
⭐ Schedules, prepares, and participates in key meetings with institutional funders in collaboration with the Executive Director and any other relevant team members.
This is a full time benefits eligible position listed at $59,000 – $61,800 annually. Learn more and apply at go.climategen.org/careers. hashtag hashtag
06/28/2024
🌈 Climate justice is inextricably linked with pride. As states propose legislation banning discussions of LGBTQ+ issues in the classroom, they are also banning scientifically accurate climate change education. Read more from Trevor Cobb ⬇️
A Pride Month Worth Celebrating - Climate Generation As the calendar flips to June and organizations big and small roll out their rainbow logos to wish my community a “Happy Pride Month,” I am filled with a simultaneous joy and sadness. I look forward to celebrating Pride with my friends, dressing up in my wildest outfits, and holding hands in pub...
06/26/2024
There’s still time to register for the Summer Institute! Over 3 days in July, we’ll discuss the intersections between social justice, climate change, and education. Details here: https://lnkd.in/gNT9BDJ4
Educators, come with us at the Summer Institute for Climate Change Education! Connect, learn, and be inspired by changemakers across North America. Registration closes Friday, July 5th so you still have time to register: https://bit.ly/48NZxYk
06/24/2024
We're excited to welcome three summer interns this summer who will be working with our youth and education teams on summer programming! Chloe will be supporting , and Iman and Libby are organizing youth and alumni programming. We're so happy to have them on our team.
06/23/2024
👂 LISTEN: Our Policy Manager B. Rosas joined MPR News to discuss the implementation of the 100% Carbon Free law that passed in Minnesota last year.
“We’re really hoping that carbon-free actually means carbon-free."
How do you define clean energy? Minnesota climate group working on answer How will Minnesota transition to a carbon-free future? B. Rosas with Climate Generation talks about the organization’s efforts to inform communities across the state about clean sources of energy.
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Our Story
We are a nonprofit organization empowering individuals and their communities to engage in solutions to climate change. We are dedicated to climate change education, youth leadership, and citizen engagement for innovative climate change solutions.
We were founded by polar explorer Will Steger in 2006 through his powerful eyewitness account of climate change from over 50 years of exploration. His work has inspired our unique programming grounded in personal storytelling, public organizing, and education.
Our Approach
Build Climate Literacy: We work with educators nationally, providing science-based interdisciplinary climate change curriculum and professional development opportunities.
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