- This 22-year-old artist, writer and environmentalist is a 2023 Starfish Canada 25 under 25 Youth Climate Activist Award winner and cofounder of Ripple, which uses local knowledge and experience to educate students from elementary school to university about environmental stewardship.
- Through the non-profit Econova, co-founder Aloïs Gallet meshes environmental science with arts and culture to educate kids about the interconnectedness of ecosystems.
- For Belleville, Ont. native Jessica Turner, there is gratification in opening eyes to the climate crisis using artistic media. That's why she plans to make a career of it.
- Luiza Salek is using art to help high school teachers provide a platform for students to express their feelings about the climate crisis, as part of the first UBC Climate Studies and Action cohort.
- Annabelle Liao, a 22-year-old University of British Columbia undergraduate student, strives to increase youth engagement and representation in climate action spaces and at decision-making tables.
- Paige Hunter is using art to make climate change more accessible. She was named a Starfish Canada Top 25 under 25 Environmental Activist in part for co-founding the Sword Fern Collective.
- Lesley Johnson creates maps to help us explore Canada’s nature trails, as manager of geographic information system (GIS) mapping for Trans Canada Trail.
- McKenna Corvello helps youth become resilient in the face of climate change. The 23-year-old Carleton University master’s student works for Mochi4thePlanet, researching strategies for cultivating hope in young people.
- Chloe Fraser, a 23-year-old Vancouver writer, was named a top environmentalist under 25 for her accredited university course that teaches participants about the power of stories to motivate engagement in climate issues.
- Shir Gruber helped lead the 2019 climate student strikes. Now she has parlayed that experience into a leadership role with Sustainable Youth Canada.
- Jose Reyeros sees his Latinx culture as a pathway to climate resilience. The 23-year-old University of British Columbia graduate is co-founder and leader of Ritmos Climáticos.
- As the founder of Really Good Work, Drew Minns and his team design and implement online consumer experiences with the health of our planet front and centre.
- Fifteen-year-old Anna Brozek is teaching business leaders about sustainability. Starfish Canada named this Fall River, Nova Scotia student one of 2023’s Top 25 Environmentalists under 25 for her Planet in Mind website.
- 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.
- Joshua Ralph honours the lives of invasive plants. The Vancouver-based artist, 25, hosts workshops teaching participants to make art supplies from plants removed in the work of restoring and rewilding.
- As the head of communications for Sierra Club Canada, 30-year-old Conor Curtis supports environmental activists. He reminds us that a bad day never stopped oil and gas industry lobbyists, and we shouldn’t let one stop us either.
- As president of Armour Valve, Liz McBeth led the company to recognize it exists to enable an energy and industrial landscape that ensures prosperity for future generations and the planet.
- 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 a founder of the youth-led, not-for-profit Community Climate Council, Miranda Baksh helps volunteers in the racialized and newcomer-dominated Peel region of southern Ontario learn how our changing climate impacts them and the places they know.
- As co-founder and executive director of Black Eco Bloom, Tyjana Connolly, 25, lifts up Black womxn’s voices, raises awareness about the disproportionate impacts of climate change on Black communities and builds resilience through knowledge-sharing.