Clara Phillips is helping Nunavut return to quiet. 25-year-old engineer-in-training from Newfoundland leading installation of Nunavut’s first wind turbine and battery. @climatedesk.org @coveringclimatenow.org @katharinehayhoe.com @billmckibben.bsky.social www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/06/o...

Saanich, BC-based Elwyn Thom Upcycled sofas feel even more comfortable when you buy at deeply discounted prices knowing you helped divert more than 100,000 pounds of waste from landfills. @climatedesk.org @coveringclimatenow.org www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/29/o...

Lily YangLiu social media educator and advocate, ensuring youth voices represented at international climate talks. This 16-year-old also advises the BC government on climate curriculum and is designing a 135-hour climate education program. @climatedesk.org www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/25/o...

"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"

If this 16 year old can help her school cut food waste by half we grown ups can do it at home! @climatedesk.org @coveringclimatenow.org @https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/15/opinion/students-waste-food-ontario

Dyanne Jiang is making food waste abnormal. The 16-year-old Grade 12 student at Appleby College in Oakville, Ont., conceived, co-founded and runs the school’s WasteZero program, empowering students to cut food waste in half over the school year. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/15/o...

We cannot create what we don't imagine. Quinn MacAskill helps us imagine a better future. This 20-year-old Dalhousie University student asks groups, “What is your dream for your community?” Then, she helps participants work together to step into that future.  www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/08/o...

16 year old Lily YangLiu social media whiz helps millions in China link day to day weather and climate, ensures youth heard at international climate talks. advises BC government on climate curriculum and designing a 135-hour climate education program. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/25/o...

The economic future will belong to countries that can supply affordable, clean power for their economies, writes @Jamie Biggar www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/13/o...

When kids love the ocean they will protect it. Kanshan Lal is making that happen @seasmart.bsky.social @nationalobserver.com www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/06/o...

I wish as many people wanted to actually click on Teen Vogue stories as like a post about our work being good and important, because this post is almost at 20k likes and that would be pretty good traffic!

solar power + indigenous art + building reuse wow! My news to me good news for July 30 #EarthOptimism #BeyondTheObituaries nicenews.com/environment/...

Some of us talk about the circular economy and some of us actually do it. Canadas National Observer www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/28/o...

“Canada's pursuit of mega fossil fuel expansion projects stands in stark defiance of the ICJ... This historic ruling is not merely a legal opinion; it's a global mandate that shatters any illusion of continued fossil fuel impunity." www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/23/n...

Most of us want government to do more on climate. But how? Lauretta Pearse depolarises Canada’s energy conversation. At Alberta’s Energy Futures Lab she works o understand how best to arrive at the low-carbon future most want. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/21/o...

Sasha Emery brings climate conversations to young francophones. This 22-year-old from Yukon and her Franco-Manitoban friend, Anne-Sophie Règnier, produce the Conversations Climatiques podcast. Talking about climate change brings community and comfort. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/09/o...

open.substack.com/pub/charliea... Charlie Angus is right more often than not. The risk of not taking the risk seriously is too risky. And stupid.

Danielle Smith wants to see Alberta double its oil production. The separatists she keeps catering to want to see it increase even higher. They're both delusional — and deliberately avoiding the China-shaped elephant in the room. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/10/o...

Jessica Kai Paisley is helping craft international laws that lift the voices of women and others whose vulnerability is multiplied in the presence of climate impacts.  www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/07/o...

Being exposed to concentrated carbon dioxide is like being suffocated by a ghost. You can’t see it, can’t smell it, and the only way to tell you’re being poisoned is because you’re struggling to breathe. If you’re exposed long enough, you will die. www.nationalobserver.com/2024/08/30/a...

I just learned today that Pete Hoekstra, now U.S. Ambassador to Canada, helped write Project 2025, a blueprint pushing mass detention, rollback of rights, and America First extremism. I’m even more disgusted by him now. This is who represents the U.S. here. #cdnpoli #Project2025

Jessica Kai Paisley is helping craft international laws that lift the voices of women and others whose vulnerability is multiplied in the presence of climate impacts.  www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/07/o...

www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/30/o... Colour that is good for us and our earth!

“96 private jets flying to Jeff Bezos' wedding will emit more carbon than 27,300 cars do daily.” This is f**king disgusting while we’re out here using paper straws, recycling, not using grocery bags etc. BiIIionaires are the ones destroying the pIanet.

Tim Nash is changing investment finance to support the continuation of life on Earth, as the founder and president of Good Investing. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/23/o...

Over 200 economists and experts urge investment in public health care, citing benefits to Canadian economy centreforfuturework.ca/2025/06/17/t... @jimbostanford.bsky.social 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca

Kaelem Moniz is helping young people see the forest and plant trees. As special advisor to Scouts Canada’s national leadership team, this 20-year-old University of Toronto student donates his time to growing the scouting movement in Canada. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/16/o...

In shocking footage of Trump in 2020 that is now going viral, Trump says it’s against the law for a president to call in the National Guard on his own: “We can't call in the National Guard unless we're requested by a governor.” #cdnpoli

Q: Which premiers aren't stepping up? ANGUS: Clearly, we see Danielle Smith and Premier Moe breaking the boycott, inviting US alcohol back into the stores. What’s that about?... Smith needs to stop threatening to break up our country and start standing with the rest of Canada. #cdnpoli

The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at immigration court on June 20. (Via Christopher Hale)

19 year old Ginger Boehme-Vertefeuille invites us to get close to raptors at Vancouver Island’s The Raptors. While I protect birds, you will protect what you love, and we will be working together even if we never meet. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/09/o...

Casandra Fletcher is executive director of the One Straw Society. This Sunshine Coast, British Columbia elder uses the power of local food to build her community’s health and resilience. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/02/o...

Trenton McIntyre helps people across Canada plan for the climate emergencies coming their way. This 30-year-old from Victoria, BC, works at My Climate Plan, a non-profit with a mission to create a climate-safe, affordable future for everyone.  www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/26/o...

As director at Nunavut Nukkiksautiit Corporation (NNC), 32-year-old Heather Shilton is passionately committed to ensuring communities drive the clean-energy transition.  www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/20/o...

Juliana Janot knows she is one of billions helping to protect the people and places we love. @nationalobserver.com

Don’t look away. This is what Libya’s migrant detention facilities look like. This is what Trump is doing. Amnesty International called Libya’s migrant detention centers a “hellscape,” where beatings and sexual violence are rampant and there are many reports of trafficking and even slavery.

Then they came for the trade unionists…

“Oh Canada Our home on native land” never felt better to sing

Imagine if you were one of billions doing a billion good things every day to make the world safer and better. Good news! You are! And here is another.

Hugely important for Canada too. The BC Climate Solutions Council has heard lots about shortages of workers to install heat pumps, especially in rural communities. It can't only be BC. Not only is this one govts can fix, if they don't building decarobnization will be unnecessarily stymied.

Meanwhile, in Canada…

Distractions abound amongst Trump and his sycophants.

When Greyhound has better policies than a lot of universities.

A government under seven (7) different investigations for corruption just introduced a bill that would bring more corporate money into politics. This is not normal. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A co-worker of mine (who is a judge), traveled by train from Montana to North Dakota for work this week. The train made a stop in Havre, MT, where ICE agents—armed and dressed in full military-style tactical gear—boarded the train.

Let’s hope more people figure it out pressprogress.ca/6_charts_sho...

People want institutions to stand up www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.