A Class Act for Nature

Written By Peter Allan

By Patricia Lane & Caio Krause Conradt

These in-their-own-words pieces are told to Patricia Lane and co-edited with input from the interviewee for the purpose of brevity.

Caio Krause Conradt is just 17, but he has already begun to empower the next generation.

This new Canadian from São Paulo, Brazil, is a 2023 Youth Climate Activism Award winner, hosted by the Institute for Sustainability Education and Action (I-SEA), for his work engaging students in high schools and at the elementary level.

Tell us about your projects.

I started the Earthwise Environmental Club at Burnaby Mountain Secondary School, organizing a cleanup and a Himalayan blackberry pull, planting a bee garden and hosting a walk through our local creek to talk about the importance of salmon to the nitrogen and phosphorus cycle.

On Earth Day, we hosted opportunities for students to learn by interacting with the natural world in simple experiments, like measuring the increase in acidification before and after they blew carbon dioxide from their breath into a test tube filled with water.

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Caio Krause Conradt was a recipient of the 2022 Youth Climate Activism Award.
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