Patricia Lane has been a lawyer for 35 years specializing in collaborative decision making and public policy creation. She has worked in every region of Canada and federally. Patricia has worked in areas as diverse as tax policy, human rights, economic and small business development, restructuring health care, labour law, human rights, securities law, climate change, real estate and land development, wilderness protection, renewable energy, housing, and Aboriginal rights and title. She has been a climate change campaigner for 15 years and an environmentalist all her life. She was the longest serving Director on the Sierra Club Board until 2019 and continues to actively support the organization in a variety of ways.
As part of a series highlighting the work of young people in addressing the climate crisis, writer Patricia Lane interviews Pier-Olivier Boudreault, conservation director for the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society Quebec.
Meet Siobhan Takala, co-founder of Let’s Sprout, a group that mentors young climate leaders. She says it is all about showing up as you are, learning about hard topics, and demanding action.
Patricia Lane introduces us to Brandon Sandmaier, who left a well-paying job in the oilsands, went back to school and started his own business, Generate Energy.
Manitoba student Nicholas Pasieczka tells Patricia Lane that he is shooting for a world where there is clean air, water, food, energy and enough medicine for everyone.
