Cuba’s local food revolution self-sufficiency – Powell River’s Urban Farmer Ron Berezan
Kootenay Water Day Symposium – Mari Greene and Ramona Faust, West Kootenay Watershed Collaborative
Some good news messages in a dire world of war and disaster.
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Ron Berezan, the Urban Farmer from Powell River has visited Cuban permaculture farmers and gardeners over 40 times, leading tours of Canadians interested in learning about Cuba’s agriculture revolution. The permaculture change was of course mothered by necessity. He tells us about the resilience of Cubans and local-based food.
March 22nd is World Water Day and it has long been celebrated in the Kootenays, especially the Slocan Valley. This year the West Kootenay Watershed Collaborative is hosting an ambitious symposium on Sunday, March 22nd. Mari Greene and Ramona Faust speak about the symposium’s offerings.
Opening the show, because these are doom black times, with a light of hope from American writer Rebecca Solnit. In just a few words she repaints our world with a light brush of hope and colour. Nice ladies are changing the world. And solar self-sufficiency in Cuba.
LINKS MENTIONED
Ron Berezan’s The Urban Farmer program to connect with and support small scale Cuban farmers.
http://www.theurbanfarmer.ca/solidarity
West Kootenay Watershed Collaborative and World Water Day Symposium
https://www.westkootenaywater.ca/events-1
Author Rebecca Solnit in interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOJ_uaffG5s&t=1951s
Off the Record: Climate Edition – Solar Punk in Africa (also on youtube)
https://climatedrift.substack.com/p/off-the-record-climate-edition-solar
LOCAL EVENTS
Saturday, March 14, 2026. 7 pm
Falldown film and talk by Suzanne Simard
Capitol Theatre in Nelson
Author of best-seller, The Mother Tree, and ground-breaking forest scientist Dr. Suzanne Simard will speak and lead a panel discussion following the showing of the film Falldown. Just 27 minutes long Falldown by Bill Heath is a beautiful visual exploration of BC’s forests and the front line of ecological survival. It follows a coalition of first nations leaders, scientists and logges as they seek a new path out of industrial clear cutting.
Tickets are just $10 and you can get them in advance at the CapitolTheatre.ca boxoffice online.
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Sunday March 22
All day 10 am to 6 pm
Making Waves a World Water Day Symposium
Nelson Rod and Gun Club
West Kootenay Watershed Collaborative is putting on the World Water Day Symposium to take place in Nelson. Speakers include Yenny Vega Cárdenas from the International Observatory on the Rights of Nature on the legal personhood of rivers. Maude Barlow: Activist, author, and founder of the Council of Canadians; and works globally for water justice and public stewardship.
Tickets are $20 for non members and $15 for members of the Watershed Collaboarative. Everyone is welcome. Find our more or register at WestKootenayWater.ca or admin@westkootenaywater.ca
https://www.westkootenaywater.ca/events-1
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April is Earth Day Month in Nelson
There are a whole slate of Earth Day events being planned for the whole month of April in Nelson this year Capping it will be the Earth Day parade planned for Sunday April 19.
The calendar of events online and filling more every day at
https://www.earthdaysnelson.ca/
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