- Patricia Dijak is spending her retirement persuading local governments to design climate-adapted cities.
- Charlotte Gilmour is increasing demand for action on climate change. As managing director of Environmental Impact for Yulu Impact Communications, this Vancouverite supports not-for-profits, governments and companies taking leadership to increase pressure on decision-makers to protect what we love.
- John Redfern is busy bringing energy independence to the world. The Calgarian founded and runs Eavor Geothermal.
- 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 to help the food service industry reduce waste and save money.
- As senior organizer with the British Columbia Youth Climate Corps ‘Jobs for Everyone’ campaign, Abbey Piazza is advocating for climate-friendly jobs for every young person in B.C.
- Ella Bradford uses student climate strikes to raise awareness in Yukon. This 18-year-old student is a recipient of the I-SEA 2024 youth climate activism award for her high school leadership of the “Fridays for Future Yukon” student movement.
- Enya Fang, a 16-year-old student in Surrey, B.C., rallies support for people impacted by climate-related catastrophes.
- Karishma Porwal uses her influence with millions of TikTok and Instagram users to link their day-to-day concerns to the climate crisis.
- Smiely Khurana’s online platform, The Sustainable Act, showcases thoughtful storytelling about the climate crisis, and encourages us to appreciate each other and take action to protect what we love.
- Divya Dey is connecting Black, Indigenous, and women of colour to nature.
- Marcelle Moreira dos Santos and Khushi Khosla started DreamStill to revolutionize sustainable fashion by developing an app to guide textile reuse and a robot-assisted textile waste sorting system.
- In partnership with the Suzuki Elders, Solastalgia convenes intergenerational gatherings to use shared art creation and storytelling to explore climate emotions.
- 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.