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For many years the Nelson Wednesday Market has taken up a little more than a block of Baker St. Convenience of a bustling Baker St. is important to local growers and sellers. Now the City, with-one-week’s notice, has moved it to the Cottonwood Falls site, where Saturday markets take place. Matt Carr from Linden Lane Farms tells us who the Baker St. markets makes up most of his local food sales.
Go By Bike week has prizes for cycling all across BC and several events are happening in Nelson. Mark Weigeldt from Gericks Cycle and Ski and Solita Work talk about now to join in.
Chris Charlwood can see the old Taghum bridge piers from his Blewett home and now he says it’s high time for a new footbridge to make use of them. He’s promoting the idea with a new group, TaghumFootbridge.org.
LINKS MENTIONED:
Info about Nelson Farmers’ Markets
https://www.nelson.ca/821/Nelson-Farmers-Market
West Kootenay Cycling Coalition
https://westkootenaycycling.ca/
Taghum-Blewett Footbridge proposal
http://taghumfootbridge.org/
COMING EVENTS
Meet the 2025 Youth Climate Corp
Friday June 13, between 8:30 am and 3 pm
Rosemont, Nelson
Meet the 2025 Youth Climate Corp
Come meet the West Kootenay Youth Climate Corps and join them as they work on the Monarch Way Station, in partnership with the Kootenay Native Plant Society. Bring your gardening gloves and a trowel to lend a hand! Email data@kootenaynativeplants.ca to join, or get more information..
Saturday June 21, 3-7 pm
Kinnaird Park, 2501 14 Ave, Castlegar
Aboriginal People’s Day Celebration
For National Aboriginal Peoples’ Day, the Circle of Indigenous Nations Society is hosting a free, public community event featuring cultural offerings, children’s activities, Indigenous vendors, and an Indigenous-themed dinner.
More details on the COIN website: https://coinations.net/
NEWS BITS
The carbon footprint of the first 15 months of Israel’s war on Gaza will be greater than the annual planet-warming emissions of a hundred individual countries, exacerbating the global climate emergency on top of the huge civilian death toll, new research shows
A study shared exclusively with the Guardian found the long-term climate cost of destroying, clearing and rebuilding Gaza could top 31m tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e). This is more than the combined 2023 annual greenhouse gases emitted by Costa Rica and Estonia, yet there is no obligation for states to report military emissions to the UN climate body.
This week’s dangerous wildfires that forced tens of thousands to evacuate and prompted provincial emergency declarations in Manitoba and Saskatchewan were driven by an early-season heat wave made at least five times more likely by climate change, concludes a new analysis released May 30.
Temperatures have exceeded seasonal averages by 12.2° to 13.5°C in Manitoba and by 6.6 to 11.4°C in Saskatchewan, Climate Central reports, and both provinces are facing drought conditions ranging from Abnormally Dry to Moderate Drought.
Celebrated on the first Wednesday of June each year, Clean Air Day is a movement to mobilize and enable Canadians to celebrate and protect the air we breathe.
Air pollution causes heart and lung disease and results in over 17,400 people in Canada dying each year. From traffic to industry, wildfires to residential wood burning, threats to air quality are everywhere.
Clean air day aims to:
– Improve public understanding of air pollution, both indoors and outdoors.
– Build awareness of how air pollution affects our health.
– Give some easy examples of things we can all do to tackle air pollution and help protect the air we breathe, and our health.
The World Meteorological Organization reports that temperatures will stay near or above record levels for the rest of this decade. And it estimates a 70 per cent probability that the entire five-year average will exceed 1.5 C above pre-industrial temperatures.
The timeline just keeps getting tighter. Only seven years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projected the world wouldn’t heat beyond 1.5 C until the 2040s. Two years ago, the IPCC authors shifted the projection to the mid-2030s. Now, we’re on the doorstep.
Just 10 years ago, the nations of the world adopted the Paris Agreement, setting guardrails to keep global temperatures “well below 2 C above pre-industrial levels,” and pledging “efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 C.”
Some ecologists are calling it a “new era” of ecological collapse, where rapid extinctions occur in regions that have little direct contact with people.
Reports of falling insect numbers around the world are not new. International reviews have estimated annual losses globally of between 1% and 2.5% of total biomass every year.
Widespread use of pesticides and fertilisers, light and chemical pollution, loss of habitat and the growth of industrial agriculture have all carved into their numbers. Often, these were deaths of proximity: insects are sensitive creatures, and any nearby source of pollution can send their populations crumbling.
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