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2 months ago | 
nationalobserver.com | Patricia Lane |Matteo Cimellaro |Max Fawcett |David Moscrop
Anjali Carter-Rau supports young people to green their existing jobs. This 24 year old co-ordinates Vancouver’s CityHive’s ClimateWorks Lab, training 18-30 year olds to embed climate values in their existing workplaces. Tell us about your project. In the Fall of 2024 participants spent two hours one evening a week and two Saturdays listening to guest speakers, integrating their learning and analysing their own workplace's planning to move their institutions towards climate justice.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Patricia Lane |Ankur Patel
These in-their-own-words pieces are told to Patricia Lane and co-edited with input from the interviewee for the purpose of brevity. Ankur Patel, a 21-year-old nursing student from Terrace, British Columbia, is helping nurses see care for the planet as care for people. Tell us about your projects. I am on the board of the Canadian Nursing Students' Association.
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
mdpi.com | Patricia Lane
3.1. Does Loop Analysis Use Algorithms? The simple answer to the question is both ‘yes’ and ‘no’, making LA a hybrid methodology. First, consider the ‘yes’ answer. The structure of a loop model depicted as a square adjacency matrix (Community Matrix) is subject to many computation techniques, like the determinant calculation from linear algebra.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Max Fawcett |Patricia Lane |Patricia Dijak
These in-their-own-words pieces are told to Patricia Lane and co-edited with input from the interviewee for the purpose of brevity. Patricia Dijak is spending her retirement persuading local governments to design climate-adapted cities. Tell us about your project. When I retired from engineering and product marketing, I wanted to make a contribution to improve lives today and protect what we love in the face of our changing climate.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Patricia Lane
These in-their-own-words pieces are told to Patricia Lane and co-edited with input from the interviewee for the purpose of brevity. 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. Tell us about Yulu.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
mdpi.com | Patricia Lane
1. Introduction 1.1. What Is Life? Is It Algorithmic? In the universe, only a minuscule part of all matter is alive. This living matter is the purview of biology. The rest of matter, the ubiquitous dead part, has been the focus of physics, earth science, and much of chemistry. What makes only one small part of nature alive is a mystery, even though all matter, dead and alive, is composed of the same atoms found in a finite set of elements listed in a single periodic table.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Darius Snieckus |Max Fawcett |Patricia Lane
These in-their-own-words pieces are told to Patricia Lane and co-edited with input from the interviewee for the purpose of brevity. Marcelle Moreira dos Santos (Mars to her friends) is using artificial intelligence to clean up fashion waste. This 24-year-old from Vancouver and her friend, Khushi Khosla, started DreamStill to revolutionize sustainable fashion by developing an app to guide textile reuse and a robot-assisted textile waste sorting system. Tell us about your project.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Patricia Lane |Annabelle Liao
These in-their-own-words pieces are told to Patricia Lane and co-edited with input from the interviewee for the purpose of brevity. Annabelle Liao strives to increase youth engagement and representation in climate action spaces and at decision-making tables.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
nationalobserver.com | Patricia Lane |David Ives
These in-their-own-words pieces are told to Patricia Lane and co-edited with input from the interviewee for the purpose of brevity. David Ives sees beauty in the broken. He hopes his art will help us see the beauty and promise of reclaimed materials. This Vancouver-based mixed media artist and designer is passionate about redefining “waste” as things simply waiting to be repurposed. Tell us about your work.
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Sep 17, 2023 | 
nationalobserver.com | Patricia Lane |Bryn Williams
These in-their-own-words pieces are told to Patricia Lane and co-edited with input from the interviewee for the purpose of brevity. Bryn Davis Williams is disrupting the intimate garment industry. Together with her business partner Jessica Bosman, these young women have figured out how to make a more comfortable bra while reducing environmental impacts and using fair labour practices. Tell us about your company.
