Youth Climate Activists
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Riverbank cleanup needs a traffic cop
“I was curious about the cars. In 2023, I researched how they got there and how to get them sustainably removed as my Grade 12 capstone project. Fixing it seemed relatively simple but no one was doing it. One day, I just decided if not me, then who?”
Chipping away at our plastic habit, one water bottle at a time
Seventeen-year-old Ziya Merchant is the founder of Phasing Out Plastic Bottles, a multi-school campaign using plastic water bottles to raise awareness about climate justice.
A class act for nature
Caio Krause Conradt is just 17, but he has already begun to empower the next generation.
This new Canadian from São Paulo, Brazil, is a 2023 Youth Climate Activism Award recipient, hosted by I-SEA, for his work engaging students in high schools and at the elementary level.
Student Kasey Chen schools others on all things green
This 17-year-old Grade 12 student from Victoria, B.C., is a recipient of a 2022 Youth Climate Activism Award for her work raising awareness about the importance of recycling at her high school, reclaiming habitat from invasive species and encouraging native plant gardening, and lobbying all three levels of government on youth concerns about climate change.
Young filmmaker Arian Tomar shows others how they can change the world
Arian Tomar, a 19-year-old Indigenous Hmong-Indian American documentary filmmaker, mentors and supports youth climate leaders.