Charlotte Taylor tells hopeful stories about the real impacts of climate change. The University of British Columbia student has been selected for a Climate Storytelling Fellowship as part of UBC’s 2024 Communicating Climate Hope conference.
Joshua Ralph honours the lives of invasive plants. The Vancouver-based artist, 25, hosts workshops teaching participants to make art supplies from plants removed in the work of restoring and rewilding.
As the head of communications for Sierra Club Canada, 30-year-old Conor Curtis supports environmental activists. He reminds us that a bad day never stopped oil and gas industry lobbyists, and we shouldn’t let one stop us either.
As president of Armour Valve, Liz McBeth led the company to recognize it exists to enable an energy and industrial landscape that ensures prosperity for future generations and the planet.
Finnegan Brown, 16, uses art and political action to protect our climate. A high school student from Sooke, B.C., Brown received a 2023 I-SEA Youth Climate Activism Award.
As a founder of the youth-led, not-for-profit Community Climate Council, Miranda Baksh helps volunteers in the racialized and newcomer-dominated Peel region of southern Ontario learn how our changing climate impacts them and the places they know.
As co-founder and executive director of Black Eco Bloom, Tyjana Connolly, 25, lifts up Black womxn’s voices, raises awareness about the disproportionate impacts of climate change on Black communities and builds resilience through knowledge-sharing.
As operations director of Womxn Of Colour Durham Collective (WOCDC), Kiana Bonnick, 28, provides culturally sensitive opportunities for fun in local natural spaces, while creating community and building resilience.
Zamani Ra, founder and CEO of CEED Canada, helps low-income newcomer communities make a difference by showing them climate action can be simple, convenient and culturally relevant.