LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD THE APRIL 15, 2025 ECOCENTRIC EPISODE
Colin Burwell from the Nelson and District Youth Centre and Tom Suddaby with the Nelson Youth Action Network tell us about the Earth Week film festival and the big finish to the Sunday, April 27 Earth Week Parade.
Not much is being said about food security or food sovereignty in all the electioneering. Local farmer Hannah Dwyer is a volunteer with the National Farmers’ Union and the Central Kootenay Food Policy Council. She tells us about a Zoom FORUIM on Earth Day, April 22nd and they have invited all the federal election candidates to join in for discussions about food.
Last week, over 120 Canadian Mayors, and councillors met and agreed on a joint letter to federal politicians, Elbows Up For Climate. Nelson City Councillor Leslie Payne joined them, and she tells us why local politicians think climate should be discussed in the election. The local politicians suggested 5 Bold and great ideas for Canada.
LINKS MENTIONED:
Calendar of events coming up at Earth Week April 20-28.
EarthWeekNelson.ca. https://www.earthweeknelson.ca/
Eat, Think, Vote. Zoom event 11 am Tuesday, April 22, EARTH DAY
Register at Zoom
More information on food policy in Canada: The National Farmers’ Union
https://nfu.ca/
The Central Kootenay Food Policy Council
https://ckfoodpolicy.ca/
Canadian Municipal Leaders letter to federal politicians on the climate issue
More information, activities and resources
https://elbowsupforclimate.ca/
CBC article on the Elbows Up for Climate Campaign
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/letter-mayors-federal-leaders-1.7507440
COMING EVENTS
Tuesday, April 15, 7:00 pm (doors, 6:45)
Protect Our Winters Canada, Nelson Townhall
The Capitol Theatre, Free
As winters warm, snowfall becomes unpredictable, and fires burn, we must discuss what that means for mountain towns like Nelson. Join us for a conversation on how we can build a more resilient community. Stick around afterward for a POW Community Canada Après, connect with like-minded locals and continue the conversation over drinks!
Tuesday April 22, 11 am.
Zoom Forum with candidates invited
Eat Think Vote: Columbia-Kootenay-Southern Rockies
The local National Farmers Union and the Central Kootenay Food Policy Council are inviting candidates to a conversation about food sovereignty and the right of people and communities to determine their own food systems.
For more info Reach out to Hannah at dwyer@nfu.ca
You can register for the zoom at
https://nfu-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/k0nAWyvXTJCbBcz_VzTC7A
Earth Day and Earth Week 2025.
Earth Day April 22 Week April 20-27
Nelson West Kootenay Events
As Earth Day 2025 approaches, the West Kootenay Climate Hub is inviting the community to celebrate the planet at a whole week’s worth of events.
Community-wide events Planned so far:
April 26th Taghum Hall Earth Day Festival
April 27th, Nelson Parade, route TBA.
More info EarthWeekNelson.ca
Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 6:30 pm
West Kootenay Climate Hub Resilience Cafe #3
Rooted Resilience: Supporting Forest Health for Community Well-Being
Zoom Webinar
Two distinguished guest speakers, Suzanne Simard and Herb Hammond, will share their expertise on forest ecology, conservation, and the role forests play in climate and local resilience. Discover the fascinating communication networks within forests, and explore their potential in addressing global challenges. Interactive discussions with our guest speakers and fellow participants to deepen your understanding and explore practical ways to support forest health in our communities.
Registration Required: https://www.westkootenayclimatehub.ca/event-details/resilience-cafe-3-rooted-resilience
Saturday, May 3, 2025 1:30 pm
Rotacrest Hall, Creston
Science Pub: The Science of Watersheds for a Changing Climate, new directions in Hydrology
The West Kootenay Watershed Collaborative
Speakers for this Watershed Collaborative science pub are Dr. Younes Alila, Professor of Hydrology at UBC and Isaac Dekker, watershed stewardship coordinator for the Lower Kootenay Band/Yaqan Nukiy.
Tickets Members: $15, Non-Members $20
WestKootenayWater.ca
Sunday, May 4, 2025 1:30 pm
Langham Cultural Centre, Kaslo
Science Pub: The Science of Watersheds for a Changing Climate, new directions in Hydrology
The West Kootenay Watershed Collaborative
Speakers for this Watershed Collaborative science pub are Dr. Younes Alila, Professor of Hydrology at UBC and Conservation ecologist Greg Uitzig, M.Sc, P.Ag.
Tickets Members: $15, Non-Members $20
WestKootenayWater.ca
Deadline May 1, 2025
Nominations open for annual Suzy Hamilton Award
The award goes to female-identified or non-binary environmental activist in the West Kootenay
Suzy Hamilton started this environment radio show along with John Alton, back in 1999, when Coop Radio was on its first day. Suzy was the original EcoCentric.
The Suzy Hamilton Legacy Fund honours the volunteer work of one female-identified or non-binary environmental activist in the West Kootenay each year through a cash award. The Legacy Fund was established at the Osprey Community Foundation in 2016 after the death of well-loved and dedicated West Kootenay environmental activist and journalist Suzy Hamilton, founder of the West Kootenay EcoSociety.
The award committee is now accepting nominations for this year’s recipient. Entries should include the name and contact information of the nominee, as well as a short paragraph about the volunteer work the nominee does for the environment. We welcome the re-submission of nominees from previous years who have not been selected for the award. Please send nominations through the Osprey Community Foundation before May 1.
Last year’s winner was Andrea Fox, a local forest defender who has been a guest on this show many times.
ENVIRONMENT NEWS BITS
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has said that his party would overturn a long-standing moratorium on oil tankers in the waters off B.C.’s north coast, which was formalized in 2019 as Bill C-48.
Repealing the legislation would make way for an oil pipeline to the north coast, something residents, municipalities and First Nations strongly opposed during the fight against Northern Gateway, Enbridge’s proposed diluted bitumen pipeline that would have carried heavy crude from Alberta to a port in Kitimat.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/04/08/Conservatives-Vow-End-Oil-Tanker-Moratorium/
A new funding deal will keep Metro Vancouver’s transportation agency in business until the end of 2027, but transit advocates say a permanent solution is still urgently needed.
The three-year, C$312-million agreement between TransLink and the British Columbia government will provide much-needed breathing room, the Vancouver Sun reports, with annual installments of about $100 million taking a chunk out of the $600-million shortfall TransLink was facing by 2026.
The climate crisis is on track to destroy capitalism, a top insurer has warned, with the vast cost of extreme weather impacts leaving the financial sector unable to operate.
The world is fast approaching temperature levels where insurers will no longer be able to offer cover for many climate risks, said Günther Thallinger, on the board of Allianz SE, one of the world’s biggest insurance companies. He said that without insurance, which is already being pulled in some places, many other financial services become unviable, from mortgages to investments.
An effective, all-in response to the global climate emergency can revitalize local economies across Canada while strengthening national sovereignty and economic security, an extensive new analysis by Corporate Knights’ Climate Dollars project concludes.
Investing in our buildings, vehicles and power grids tcan shift our energy use to electricity can set Canada on the path to a zero-emission economy by 2050.
Climate Dollars charts a practical path over the next 25 years that builds on Canada’s unique strengths and reinforces our sovereignty in a time of deep national anxiety.
Climate Dollars shows how Canada can embrace and succeed at an ambitious, achievable national building project that dramatically accelerates the shift to heat pumps for space heating and cooling and heralds a massive buildout of new renewable energy and energy storage. W
Parisians voted in a referendum on Sunday to pedestrianise a further 500 of the city’s streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by the French capital’s left-leaning town hall to curb car usage and improve air quality.
Some 65.96% of Parisians voted in favour of the measure, while 34.04% rejected it, official results showed. Only 4.06% of voters turned out in the consultation, which was organised by the municipality.
This was the third such referendum in Paris in as many year.
The city’s Paris town hall data shows car traffic in the city has more than halved since the Socialists took power in the capital at the turn of the century.
In a sudden and unexplained change from previous decades, the federal government has stopped covering the travel costs of Canadian experts volunteering for the next major global climate science assessment.
The decision to end travel funding means that Canadian scientists are now wondering whether they can still participate in the United Nations climate science process, perhaps by using their own money or diverting grant funds that could be going toward research and students.
“It’s almost insulting to all of the Canadian scientists who have volunteered all those hundreds of hours each year of their personal lives,” said Robert McLeman, a professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ont., who was a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) during its last assessment.
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