In 2010, 100+ volunteer organizers in Vermont held local actions during 350.org’s Global Work Party on 10/10/10. A group of those organizers founded 350VT in 2011. We are affiliated with 350.org, but financially independent.

Over the following years, 350VT organized bold actions like the Human Oil Spill in 2012 and co-organized several mass actions against the fracked gas pipeline in Montpelier, which brought hundreds into the streets. In 2016, 350VT co-led a mass civil disobedience in Geprags Park, a pipeline construction site, and supported the local group to raise over $50,000 in legal fees.

In 2014, we sent 22 buses to the People’s Climate March in New York City and 10 buses to the march in DC in 2017. In September 2018, we held six actions around Vermont as part of Rise for Climate, Jobs, & Justice, a day with over 900 actions worldwide.

In 2019, we organized the five-day Next Steps Climate Justice Walk, in which more than 300 people walked some or all 65 miles from Middlebury to the State House, culminating in a powerful youth-led action. We convened a statewide coalition to organize the Climate Strikes on September 20, 2019, followed by a week of action - that day was led by youth worldwide and with more than 30 actions in Vermont, and was the largest climate mobilization in history so far.