AGENTS OF CHANGE

Climate warriors, powerful protesters and good Samaritans

catherine mckenna Minister of Environment

She rolled out one of the world’s most dramatic carbon-pricing programs, projected to cut Canada’s emissions by up to 60 million tonnes by 2022. She also announced a single-use-plastic ban, committed to a national flood insurance program and funnelled $420 million to Ontario businesses to help fund energy-efficiency programs.

aliénor rougeot Activist and student

Toronto’s answer to Greta Thunberg is a 20-year-old economics and public policy student at

U of T. Rougeot runs the Toronto branch of Thunberg’s Fridays for Future movement, and she helped organize, publicize and lead September’s explosive, citystopping climate strike, where tens of thousands of protesters flooded the streets.

naomi klein Author

In On Fire, Klein backs Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s demand for a Green New Deal in the U.S. (an idea Klein kinda-sorta invented with the Leap Manifesto in 2015). The book is a radical polemic for sweeping and probably unpopular policy changes—our only chance to change our habits, attitudes and futures. It quickly became a

New York Times bestseller.

geoff cape Evergreen Brick Works

At the Brick Works, Cape just opened the kiln building, a carbon-neutral event space using reclaimed rooftop rainwater for the toilets and irrigation, and geothermal pipes for heating. Appropriately, the site hosted the Future Cities Conference for urban and environmental leaders to pitch their plans for a greener tomorrow.

nick saul CEO, Community Food Centres Canada

Rising temperatures are one of the driving causes of global hunger: farmland is degrading, water is drying up and crops are failing. Saul, who was appointed to the Order of Canada this year, recently opened three new food centres, and is planning to open three more in the coming months: one in Toronto, one in Saskatchewan and one in Iqaluit.