A class act for nature
By Patricia Lane & Caio Krause Conradt| September 25, 2023
Caio Krause Conradt is just 17, but he has already begun to empower the next generation.
This new Canadian from Sรฃo 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.