Youth Climate Voices

Rachael Cadman’s PhD studies involve supporting the Torngat Wildlife, Plants, & Fisheries Secretariat and other partners to map out and help implement an Inuit community vision of the future of fisheries in Nunatsiavut, a self-governing Inuit region in northern Labrador. 

Interested in a career in the low-carbon economy, but not sure what steps to take? Brennan Strandberg-Salmon has you covered.

Want to know what a job looks like for a fossil fuel worker in the net-zero economy? Just ask Luisa Da Silva. As executive director of Iron & Earth, she makes the rubber hit the road. 

Patricia Lane interviews Shauna Doll, co-ordinator for the Raincoast Conservation Foundation’s Gulf Islands Forest Project.

Malaika Collette spent the election campaign in high gear. She spent hours texting voters and urging them to support candidates identified as climate champions by 350 Canada.

Cooper and Ethan Waisberg love tennis and were brought up to abhor waste. So they developed Balls 4 Eyeballs, a charity that collects and resells tennis balls to raise money for eye health.

Shitangshu Roy is working with young people and technology for climate solutions.

Aly Hyder Ali works with Nature Canada teaching city-dwellers how to appreciate and protect birds.

Rainbow Eyes, as Angela Davidson has come to be known at the Fairy Creek protest camp, says it is her calling to protect B.C.'s old-growth forests.

Being surrounded by trees makes us feel good. Erin Moir is training to be a certified forestry therapy guide to help others find peace among the trees.

Marine biologist Christine Stortini explains how overfishing throws ocean ecosystems out of whack and makes ocean life more susceptible to the ill effects of climate change.

The day the swamp was drained, Charlotte Dawe grieved for the dead crickets and frogs. "I knew whose side I was on even then."

Umair Muhammad now works to introduce the wonders of nature to those who might not easily see it.

Working from a Council of Canadians playbook, two teens from Cumberland, B.C., persuaded the village to adopt a climate and social justice plan.

Aishwarya Puttur is a member of Banking on a Better Future, which raises awareness that customer investments are being used by banks to fund fossil fuel expansion.