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FIRST PERSON —How embracing empathy helped me in my fight for the climate.

Climate striker Teegan Walshe shares how empathy changed the way she talks with people who oppose climate action. Through conversations in her hometown of Qualicum Beach, she found that listening and building connections can help shift perspectives.

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University student wins award for climate action.

Anna Erickson has been organizing real action on climate change since she was eight years old. Now 18, this Victoria, B.C., green, civil engineering student won a Youth Climate Activism Award from the Institute for Sustainability Education and Action (I-SEA) for getting her Grade 3 class to collaborate with her and a friend in writing, illustrating and publishing a book for other elementary school students.

Peter Allan 2023-10-25 Peter Allan 2023-10-25

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?”

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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.

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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.

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Judge warns Ontario’s weak climate plans will ‘increase the risk of death’ for young people

Sophia Mathur was just 11-years-old when Ecojustice reached out to her and asked if she might want to be involved in fighting the Ontario government in court.

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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.