Climate Generation

After 20 years of advancing climate literacy, youth leadership, and a just transition, Climate Generation has made the difficult decision to wind down organizational operations.

Today is our last day.

This news may bring disappointment, surprise, or sadness. Climate Generation has been a professional and political home to many, and we hold this moment with deep care and gratitude.

Over the past year, we explored multiple paths forward: accelerating fundraising, restructuring, and partnership or merger options. Ultimately, continuing without sufficient, reliable resources would have compromised our values and the quality of our work. Choosing to wind down was not a decision made lightly, and how we end matters just as much as how we’ve led.

We’re proud that we’ve been able to wind down thoughtfully, ensuring staff had time to transition programs and resources, and creating space to collaborate with partners throughout the wind-down.

We’re reminded of the nursery log: a fallen tree in the forest becomes the foundation for new growth and what was built here is nourishing what comes next. Our curricula live on in classrooms. The youth we’ve co-mentored are organizing in their communities. Our partners continue advocating for climate justice across Minnesota and beyond.

For two decades, Climate Generation brought people together, shared knowledge, and supported meaningful action to address the systems driving the climate crisis. From local classrooms to international climate gatherings, from the Minnesota Youth Climate Summit to climate change education book clubs, our impact was created by you. We also want to thank everyone who came before the current staff at Climate Generation, our programs have been built over the course of twenty years, and we thank everyone who came before us!

We've never done this alone. Thank you for co-creating alongside us.

CG resources and some programming will live on. The last Gist and Teach Climate Tips have this info, links here:
Gist: https://shorturl.at/Q7EP0
Tips: https://shorturl.at/0JDSg

Join Climate Generation and Project Drawdown on Wednesday, January 21st from 12:00 - 1:00 PM CT for our first Teach Climate Network free workshop of 2026!

This workshop introduces the power of climate storytelling as a tool for climate connection, education, and action. We’ll explore how personal narratives can bring climate science down to earth—making it human, local, and real. Drawing from Project Drawdown’s Neighborhood storytelling work, we’ll look at examples of how everyday people are shaping climate solutions. Participants will leave with a clearer sense of their own climate story and how to share it with courage and care.

We understand that some of these workshops do not work for educator's schedules, so all registrants will receive a recording and additional resources to their e-mail within 1 week of the event. We are striving to make our events more welcoming to all, with specific goals about racial equity and inclusivity. Your answers during registration will help us to know how we are doing.

Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/KvfP2gsxSgKbKVJrxvmLCw #/