Patty Lane
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Climate hope is a journey best taken with friends. Canada’s most hopeful climate columnist. @National Observer. Story teller. Bridge builder. Sometimes annoyingly persistent. Occasionally funny. Awesomeclimatestories.ca
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Patty Lane
@pattylane.bsky.social
· Sep 1
Teen urges others to embrace climate education
Lily YangLiu is a social media educator and advocate who ensures youth voices are represented at international climate talks. This 16-year-old also advises the BC government on climate curriculum and ...
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Patty Lane
@pattylane.bsky.social
· Aug 12
Students learn to love the ocean
Kanchan Lal helps young people fall in love with the ocean. As managing director of Vancouver-based Sea Smart, she oversees programs that inspire thousands of students to explore, understand and prote...
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Lostcatdog
@lostcatdog.bsky.social
· Aug 6
Patty Lane
@pattylane.bsky.social
· Jul 29
How a young leader is building the circular economy
Abhi Mishra, co-founder of Mosa Technologies, has over the past two years played a key role in diverting more than 40,000 glass bottles from waste bins, instead converting them into beautifully upcycl...
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Patty Lane
@pattylane.bsky.social
· Jul 24
Landmark court ruling a stark rebuke of Canadian position on climate change
The ICJ finding is a watershed moment in the fight against climate change that should send shivers down the spine of the fossil fuel industry, while threatening to upend the legality of Prime Minister...
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Patty Lane
@pattylane.bsky.social
· Jul 23
How best to arrive at a low-carbon future together
Lauretta Pearse is depolarizing Canada’s energy conversation. As a Fellow at Alberta’s Energy Futures Lab (EFL), she is part of a diverse group searching to understand people’s perspectives on how bes...
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Patty Lane
@pattylane.bsky.social
· Jul 15
A French podcast brings climate conversations to young listeners
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. Sasha r...
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Patty Lane
@pattylane.bsky.social
· Jul 10
Alberta will never double its oil production
Both Danielle Smith and the separatists she keeps enabling want to see Alberta double its oil production. Spoiler: It won't be Mark Carney or the Liberal government that ends up stopping them.
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Patty Lane
@pattylane.bsky.social
· Jul 7
How to craft laws that protect the most vulnerable to climate change
Jessica Kai Paisley is helping craft international laws that lift up the voices of women and others whose vulnerability is multiplied in the presence of climate impacts. This 27-year-old legal scholar...
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Patty Lane
@pattylane.bsky.social
· Jul 7
Will you be in the carbon capture ‘kill zone’?
If plans to expand carbon capture technology are pursued, it will mean a network of hundreds, if not thousands, of kilometres of concentrated CO2 pipelines running under communities and Indigenous nat...
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Tanya 🇨🇦
@fieryone4.bsky.social
· Jul 6
Patty Lane
@pattylane.bsky.social
· Jul 7
How to craft laws that help the climate vulnerable
Jessica Kai Paisley is helping craft international laws that lift up the voices of women and others whose vulnerability is multiplied in the presence of climate impacts. This 27-year-old legal scholar...
www.nationalobserver.com
Patty Lane
@pattylane.bsky.social
· Jul 2
Clothes with colours that marry science, nature and design
Roya Aghighi partners with microbes and other living organisms to design and manufacture colours. This 34-year-old from Vancouver co-founded Lite-1 to harness the power of microorganisms to transform...
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Ryan
@mediumboi.bsky.social
· Jun 26