Creatively United for the Planet | Creating a Livable Future: A Youth Perspective @creativelyunited | Uploaded April 2020 | Updated October 2024, 10 hours ago.
The 50th anniversary and history of Earth Day is explored in this youth-led discussion that brings us right into what's happening now. Meet western Canada’s leading youth climate leaders who want to thrive, not just survive, and create a better future for not only themselves, but for generations to come.
Presenter Bios:
Katia Bannister is a sixteen year old youth climate activist and community organizer. She lives on Thetis Island, on the unceded territory of the Hul’q’umi’num speaking Penelakut Tribe. Katia is currently learning to speak Hul’q’umi’num and is taking a language revitalization course. Katia leads the Cowichan Valley Earth Guardians crew and is a member of the Vote16BC campaign, BC Youth Council and City of Duncan Environmental and Sustainability Committee. In the future Katia hopes to pursue a career in ethnoecology.
cowichanvalley@earthguardians.org
sowseedsofchange.wordpress.com
Emma -Jane Burian is a 2020 Victoria Leadership Award winner, grade 12 student and climate activist who organizes global and monthly climate strikes with Our Earth, Our Future on the beautiful homelands of the Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples in Victoria, BC.
She has been a member of The City of Victoria Youth Council and has participated in organizing community gatherings like Meatless Monday potlucks, and advocating for fare-free transit for youth in her region. She also serves as a director on the Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke Green Party EDA. She is passionate about climate justice and engaging youth in politics to build resilient and strong communities for a better world.
ourearthourfuturevictoria.com
Kylen Glass is a youth activist, organizer, and student from Mohkinstsis, the traditional territories of the Blackfoot people, also known as Calgary, Alberta. Kylen volunteers with a local Fridays for Future group to organize strikes every week, as well as larger global strikes, plus collaborates with Climate Strike Canada to support climate action and a Green New Deal for Canada.
Kylen is passionate about climate justice and transforming our social and economic systems to create a sustainable and inclusive future for all people by applying the principles of regenerative society and permaculture to mitigate and respond to the climate crisis as a united humanity.
fridaysforfuturecalgary@gmail.com
fridaysforfuturecalgary.ca
Jamie Hunter is a 20-year old youth climate striker and peace studies student in Nelson BC. Along with the rest of Nelson Fridays for Future team, he has organized multiple climate strikes in the past year, including one with over 2,000 people present, in a town of just 10,000.
Jamie is also becoming actively involved in the Stop Ecocide Campaign in Canada, which is inspired by the campaign started in the UK, which aims to make the crime of ecocide a criminal offence, both at the international criminal court and in domestic law. He believes that along with education and personal decisions, laws such as this are critical in order for us to move towards climate justice.
youth4climate.nelson@gmail.com
https://www.stopecocide.earth/
Ella Kruus is a creative 12 year old who loves figure skating and reading on top of organizing climate strikes.
Grace Sinats is a Grade 9 student who organizes climate events with Our Earth, Our Future, a climate activism group located on Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ territories.
She is an active member of the City of Victoria youth council and also serves as a director on the Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke Green Party EDA. Her article, We Must Lead with Love, has been prominently featured in the Cowichan Valley Voice. She is advocate for Indigenous sovereignty and fare free youth transit across the CRD. She has taken inspiration from her teachers Mark Neufeld and Joanna Linger. Grace believes education must be at the forefront of climate action and building a better world.
Julia Zirnhelt, from Williams Lake BC, organized the first climate strike in Williams Lake along with Ella Kruus and was a panelist at the Crossborder Conference 2020.
She is trying to make her small town a more sustainable and environmentally friendly place and is currently getting in contact with the city council and school trustees about making our system more green. Julia is organizing a Fridays for the Future project in her school district.
climatestrikecanada.org
creativelyunited.org
climateandthearts.org
ecoforestry.ca
The 50th anniversary and history of Earth Day is explored in this youth-led discussion that brings us right into what's happening now. Meet western Canada’s leading youth climate leaders who want to thrive, not just survive, and create a better future for not only themselves, but for generations to come.
Presenter Bios:
Katia Bannister is a sixteen year old youth climate activist and community organizer. She lives on Thetis Island, on the unceded territory of the Hul’q’umi’num speaking Penelakut Tribe. Katia is currently learning to speak Hul’q’umi’num and is taking a language revitalization course. Katia leads the Cowichan Valley Earth Guardians crew and is a member of the Vote16BC campaign, BC Youth Council and City of Duncan Environmental and Sustainability Committee. In the future Katia hopes to pursue a career in ethnoecology.
cowichanvalley@earthguardians.org
sowseedsofchange.wordpress.com
Emma -Jane Burian is a 2020 Victoria Leadership Award winner, grade 12 student and climate activist who organizes global and monthly climate strikes with Our Earth, Our Future on the beautiful homelands of the Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples in Victoria, BC.
She has been a member of The City of Victoria Youth Council and has participated in organizing community gatherings like Meatless Monday potlucks, and advocating for fare-free transit for youth in her region. She also serves as a director on the Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke Green Party EDA. She is passionate about climate justice and engaging youth in politics to build resilient and strong communities for a better world.
ourearthourfuturevictoria.com
Kylen Glass is a youth activist, organizer, and student from Mohkinstsis, the traditional territories of the Blackfoot people, also known as Calgary, Alberta. Kylen volunteers with a local Fridays for Future group to organize strikes every week, as well as larger global strikes, plus collaborates with Climate Strike Canada to support climate action and a Green New Deal for Canada.
Kylen is passionate about climate justice and transforming our social and economic systems to create a sustainable and inclusive future for all people by applying the principles of regenerative society and permaculture to mitigate and respond to the climate crisis as a united humanity.
fridaysforfuturecalgary@gmail.com
fridaysforfuturecalgary.ca
Jamie Hunter is a 20-year old youth climate striker and peace studies student in Nelson BC. Along with the rest of Nelson Fridays for Future team, he has organized multiple climate strikes in the past year, including one with over 2,000 people present, in a town of just 10,000.
Jamie is also becoming actively involved in the Stop Ecocide Campaign in Canada, which is inspired by the campaign started in the UK, which aims to make the crime of ecocide a criminal offence, both at the international criminal court and in domestic law. He believes that along with education and personal decisions, laws such as this are critical in order for us to move towards climate justice.
youth4climate.nelson@gmail.com
https://www.stopecocide.earth/
Ella Kruus is a creative 12 year old who loves figure skating and reading on top of organizing climate strikes.
Grace Sinats is a Grade 9 student who organizes climate events with Our Earth, Our Future, a climate activism group located on Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ territories.
She is an active member of the City of Victoria youth council and also serves as a director on the Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke Green Party EDA. Her article, We Must Lead with Love, has been prominently featured in the Cowichan Valley Voice. She is advocate for Indigenous sovereignty and fare free youth transit across the CRD. She has taken inspiration from her teachers Mark Neufeld and Joanna Linger. Grace believes education must be at the forefront of climate action and building a better world.
Julia Zirnhelt, from Williams Lake BC, organized the first climate strike in Williams Lake along with Ella Kruus and was a panelist at the Crossborder Conference 2020.
She is trying to make her small town a more sustainable and environmentally friendly place and is currently getting in contact with the city council and school trustees about making our system more green. Julia is organizing a Fridays for the Future project in her school district.
climatestrikecanada.org
creativelyunited.org
climateandthearts.org
ecoforestry.ca
