Drought brings hardship in the Slocan Valley.
Communities organize to protect their water from clearcuts
Where does YOUR drinking water come from?
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Where does your drinking water come from? EcoCentric host Solita Work speaks with people who are all too aware of threats to their drinking water. Winlaw resident Theresa Lewis has been forced to truck in water in for several summers. Slocan residents are concerned about logging plans up the mountain, local Lisa Parente tells us more. In Bonnington and Beasley residents are organizing to have a say in clearcutting proposals above their waterboxes. Jessica Hewitt talks about it. Former RDCK director Ramona Faust with the West Kootenay Watershed Collaborative sums up some of the issues communities face protecting their water supplies.
LINKS MENTIONED:
Friends of Falls Creek. https://www.friendsoffallscreek.ca/
West Kootenay Watershed Collaborative. https://www.westkootenaywater.ca/
Watershed sustainability planning. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/environment/air-land-water/water/water-planning-strategies
COMING EVENTS
Saturday, November 8th. 6:30 to 8:30 pm
Nelson Public Library
Thriving Together: Connecting Communities, Health, and Environment
For the British Columbia Library Association’s Climate Action week, join the West Kootenay Climate Hub and Doctors and Nurses for Planetary Health at the Nelson Public Library for an evening of food, and a community exchange about connecting big concerns we share.
It’s called Thriving Together: Connecting Communities, Health, and Environment and its a chance to explore the connections between climate and so many of the better life together issues we face in our modern times.
It’s free and everyone is welcome.
Saturday, November 8 10 to 3
Indoor Food Festival and Market with Bite-sized: a short film showcase
Mary Hall, Selkirk College Fairview Campus in Nelson
Explore 60+ vendors from across the Columbia Basin. Sip, sample and shop local while discovering producers and makers you won’t find at your regular farmers market.
BITE-SIZED: A SHORT FILMS SHOWCASE (11:00am-12:50pm)
This free event, coinciding with the Indoor Public Market, brings together powerful stories where food becomes a lens into community, culture, and resilience. From a haunting meditation on industrial farming, to the public film premiere celebrating our local food co-op’s 50th anniversary, to intimate looks at honey production and grassroots food justice, this cinematic tasting menu celebrates the connections that bring us together around the table. Filmmakers Jonathan Ramos and Jon Steinman in attendance.
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Saturday, November 8, 1 pm
Castlegar, 1995 6 Ave, Castlegar, BC V1N 4B7, Canada
Open House tour of The Confluence, a Passive House standard building
Join architect Lukas Armstrong for a tour of The Confluence Building, Castlegar’s new Visitors Centre/Chamber of Commerce building, as part of the International Passive House Open Days. Learn how this clever design uses 85% less energy for heating and cooling than conventional buildings. This is Canada’s first fully public Passive House-certified mass timber building and is an exciting example of how we can build for the future, and it’s right here in our area!
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Sunday Nov 16 1 pm
Taghum Hall
Friends of Falls Creek
Friends of Falls Creek is hosting a fundraising festival to support the Bonnington and Beasley communities against BC Timber Sales proposed commercial logging in the watershed. A day of music, thought, and gathering to show gratitude for nature’s life giving source.
Featuring music by Young Braised, Song Keepers Choir and Ryan Shane Owen.
Chef Rosh Kubelka of Hume Hotel will be sharing some of his favorite foods available for purchase.
Suggested donation $10, kids free. Water is life, water is love.
friendsoffallscreek.ca
Tuesday November 19 Noon
P:ovince wide protests against continued clearcutting of old growth
Tuesday November 19th between 12-2 at locations around the province including Nelson and Victoria. More details coming.
Longest running Enviro News show on the Radio! 