Youth Climate Voices

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.

Manvi Bhalla of Shake Up The Establishment is helping to change Canada’s climate conversation, says Patricia Lane.

The pandemic has shifted student activist efforts online, but the movement is alive and well, organizer Aliénor Rougeot tells Patricia Lane.

Sujane Kandasamy's Hindu culture taught her that people are all just visitors on this earth and have a duty to leave the planet hospitable for future generations.

Meet Kehkashan Basu, a 20-year-old who is empowering youth through her foundation, Green Hope.

In 2019, Sebastien Molgat, now 23, created the Arctic Youth Network with an international team of young people. And he has bigger plans for the future.

When Miklos Alvaro Sunario saw some of his classmates struggling with math online, he started a free tutoring service to help them succeed.

Matt Humphrey — an Anglican priest, writer and educator who lives, works and plays on Songhees territory in the Cecilia Creek watershed (Victoria, B.C.) — mixes faith with environmental stewardship.

“No matter where you work, I respect you for putting food on the table. But I do have to say that my life has additional meaning now,” Nick Kendrick says.

In the race against rapid warming in the Arctic, 26-year-old Kirsten Reid hopes to help First Nations, settler governments and conservation groups identify species at risk and design conservation spaces and biodiversity corridors to protect fragile ecosystems.

At 32, linguist and storyteller Lindsay Borrows has practised law, written a book, introduced hundreds of law students to her people’s world view and is contributing to the revitalization of the Anishinaabe legal system.

Alexa Goodman, 25, co-ordinates the remediation of abandoned, lost and discarded fishing gear — otherwise known as “ghost gear” — for the Nova Scotia-based non-profit Coastal Action.

"Over millennia, we have developed confidence that we will overcome challenges with each other," says 32-year-old La'goot (Spencer Greening). "Yes, you face fear and worry in times of a changing climate, but you have faith that you can overcome together."

Meet ​'Cúagilákv (Jess Housty), a 34-year-old Haíɫzaqv (Heiltsuk) change-maker helping to promote food security and self-reliance in Bella Bella, B.C.

Meet Vanessa Corkal, a sustainable development researcher who's not afraid to ask the big questions.