The Kokanee Creek Nature Centre’s Senior Naturalist Joanne Siderius is the winner of this year’s Suzy Hamilton Legacy Award.  Joanne has been a guest on The EcoCentric many times over the years, talking with all her passion about the natural world and we congratulate in a short interview today.  The first major Bike lane in … Continue reading May 26, ’20. Cycling in Nelson, Winner of the Suzy Hamilton Legacy Award

SFU Professor Mark Jaccard on his latest book, The Citizens Guide to Climate Success. Jaccard tackles a number of myths about what is really effective policy and making emission reductions.  The Kootenays are a mushroom lovers paradise much of the year.  Robin Mercy of Kaslo counts himself as one of the mycophiles… so much so … Continue reading May 19, ’20. Mark Jaccard on his new book, Mr Mercy’s Mushrooms in the Koots

Journalist Geoff Dembicki from BC’s online outlet, TheTyee.ca talks about the antics of Alberta premier Jason Kenney.   Kenney’s ratings have been rock bottom with the dual crisis of the pandemic and the oil price crash.  Melina Laboucan-Massimo is a well-respected indigenous leader from Alberta who campaigned for years with Greenpeace against expansion of the tar … Continue reading May 12, ’20: Kenney tanks, taking care of ourselves in the struggle

Talking about the future is hot these days… David Suzuki, Naomi Klein and other voices look at it on the show.  But,  the present: the latest clusters of Covid in BC have come from the Kearl Lake tar sands mine workers  returning to their families. The High River Cargill plant has spawned 900 cases all … Continue reading May 5, 20: BC ManCamps, Suzuki, The Great Realization: Poetry

Michael Moore’s controversial new movie, Planet of the Humans is getting a lot of pushback from the environmental movement. We hear from Michael, Naomi Klein, and Richard Reich.  Grand Forks resident Jennifer Houghton has made a video documentary of the flood of the Kettle River in 2018.  The Kootenay Boundary has been flagged as one … Continue reading April 28, ’20 Moore film, Grand Forks flood watch, Raven Trust #solidarityfromhome

Nelson City Councillor Rik Logtenberg talks about how Nelson is handling the distancing period and about the City’s response to the crisis.  Prime Minister Trudeau announced a federal relief plan for the oil industry, Marc Lee, senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) BC goes over the details with us.  In these … Continue reading April 21 ’20. Fed oil plan, Nelson City faces pandemic, grief and hope

Shauna Fidler from the West Kootenay Permaculture Coop says they are moving fast on food security support in the Slocan Valley during this pandemic. We have Professor William Rees, a population ecologist from UBC, talking about how humans are overshooting the planet’s capacity to support and sustain us. In his view the corona virus crisis … Continue reading April 14 ’20. Valley necessities delivery & pandemic response, Prof Rees on ‘over-shoot’ and serious change. Naomi: change is coming, bad… or good.

We’re talking about the COVID Pandemic of course.  Montana Burgess from the West Kootenay EcoSociety on to talk about how they are adapting… and what it all means. We’ve got some great sound from the online fundraiser in solidarity with the Wet’swuet’en last Friday and Saturday evenings. But the WATCH PARTY was actually really cool.  … Continue reading April 7 ’20, Adapting to pandemic distancing, Wet’suwet’en “watch party” fundraiser

  Talk about the pandemic.  Keith spoke with Tim Gray, Executive Director of Environmental Defence in Toronto about the crises the planet faces.   Getting to the Kootenays from Vancouver, Calgary or anywhere, without using a car has become pretty tough since Greyhound pulled out.  Transportation planner Eric Doherty from Victoria hosted a webinar recently … Continue reading March 17 ’20 The crisis we’re facing, and interurban bus transportation

The BC branch of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) has released a discussion paper on how BC can, and should, wind-down fossil fuel extraction. Senior economist and author Marc Lee talks about it. Nelson city senior planner Sebastien Arcand explains the City's bike route planning. Listen to the weekly show here: