Patricia Lane
Columnist | Victoria
About Patricia Lane
Patricia Lane's column gives voice to climate leaders across Canada, in their own words. They are mostly young but some showcase elders whose focus has shifted to climate in their later years.
Patricia specialises in collaborative decision-making, public policy creation and effective climate communication. As a lawyer, she worked in every region in Canada in diverse areas such as tax policy, human rights, economic development, restructuring health care, family law and labour law, human rights, securities law, climate change, real estate and land development, wilderness protection, renewable energy, housing, and Aboriginal rights and title.
Making action on climate change culturally relevant
Zamani Ra, founder and CEO of CEED Canada, helps low-income newcomer communities make a difference by showing them climate action can be simple, convenient and culturally relevant.
Saving and celebrating our oceans
Emma Chu and her friend Anna Kovtunenko created Vancouver’s ORCA (Ocean conservation, Reform, Climate optimism, Action) Festival.
We don’t all have to love the environment the same way
A University of British Columbia professor’s recent book "Eco-Types" helps us understand five ways of relating to the natural world.
Fighting to save our natural world
Amalie Wilkinson helps youth around the world press decision-makers to make mass destruction of nature a crime.
Digging deep for healthy soil
Tori Waugh, executive director of the Ontario Soil Network, helps farmers share their wisdom on soil health.
In his spare time, he helped save a forest
Matthew Syvenky, 21, brought his community together to remove invasive species from a part of the Cariboo Heights forest in Burnaby, B.C., and rewild it.
Encouraging women in the Global South to use their voice
Yusra Shafi is a 22-year-old immigrant from Kuwait. With KAIROS Canada, she helps empower women to build climate-resilient communities in Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Israel/Palestine, and South Sudan.
Performing arts can tell new climate justice stories
As co-founder of Gay4Nature, Anna Bigland-Pritchard uses opera to raise awareness of queer and environmental issues.
Her school of thought? Plant a pocket forest
A 16-year-old student led the environmental team at Richmond Secondary School to plant the first Miyawaki pocket forest in Western Canada.
University student wins award for climate action
Anna Erickson has been organizing real action on climate change since she was eight years old.