Patricia Lane

Lauretta Pearse is depolarizing Canada’s energy conversation. As a Fellow at Alberta’s Energy Futures Lab (EFL), she is part of a diverse group searching to understand people’s perspectives on how best to arrive at the low-carbon future most want. She is Canada’s Clean50 Emerging Leader winner.

Dr. Albert Marshall is a Mi’kmaq Elder who helped build understanding of the concept of “Two-Eyed Seeing.” 

Summer Sharma and three other students started a coffee shop at Okanagan Mission Secondary School, B.C. They raised awareness about the difference collective action can make in achieving social and climate justice, and donated the profits to three charities chosen by their customers.

Ben Liegey founded BetterTable.ca to help the food service industry reduce waste and save money.

Divya Dey is connecting Black, Indigenous, and women of colour to nature.

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.

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 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.

Celine Isimbi empowers her fellow university students to link their concerns to climate justice.

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.

Emma Chu and her friend Anna Kovtunenko created Vancouver’s ORCA (Ocean conservation, Reform, Climate optimism, Action) Festival.

A University of British Columbia professor’s recent book “Eco-Types” helps us understand five ways of relating to the natural world.

Amalie Wilkinson helps youth around the world press decision-makers to make mass destruction of nature a crime.

Tori Waugh, executive director of the Ontario Soil Network, helps farmers share their wisdom on soil health.

Matthew Syvenky, 21, brought his community together to remove invasive species from a part of the Cariboo Heights forest in Burnaby, B.C., and rewild it.

Yusra Shafi is a 22-year-old immigrant from Kuwait. With KAIROS Canada, she helps empower women to build climate-resilient communities in Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Israel/Palestine, and South Sudan.

As co-founder of Gay4Nature, Anna Bigland-Pritchard uses opera to raise awareness of queer and environmental issues.

Anna Erickson has been organizing real action on climate change since she was eight years old.

As an economic adviser to Environment and Climate Change Canada, Faith Edem helped identify West African countries that would benefit from Canadian financial help to reduce carbon emissions.

Amalia Schelhorn choreographed and organized community dance protests against old-growth logging.