Logging is a major issue in BC and Jason Laeus from Ymir really lets us in on how it can affect a community. This is a rerun from an earlier show. We also have a clip from the Extinction Rebellion movement in England. Dr. Gail Bradbrook from the Extinction Rebellion movement talks about the tough … Continue reading Aug. 13, ’19. Ymir faces up to logging threat… Extinction Rebellion talks hard truth

Colleen Doyle from the Kootenay Carshare Coop will be in to talk about the new electric cars.   Mark Laver is the Economic Development man for Castlegar and he talks about the initial feasibililty study of getting a train going from the East Kootenay to the West Kootenay.  Nelson’s brand new Climate Change Coordinator talks … Continue reading August 6 ’19 Carshare Coop goes electric, train to Cranbrook, new Nelson Climate Change coordinator

  Natasha Edwards from the West Kootenay EcoSociety updates on the 100% Renewable Kootenay campaign. Logging blockader Jessica Ogden had her day in court last and the charges against her failed because of a technicality. We talked to her shortly after she got out of court July 25. Justin Yule talks about living with less, a lot … Continue reading July 30 ’19. Castlegar campaign, Jessica Ogden’s charges thrown out, living with less

  Provincial forestry minister Doug Donaldson promised to protect 54 old-growth trees on Vancouver Island.  Sierra Club of BC forest campaigner Jens Wieting will talk about the plan. Jessica Ogden who blocked loggers on the Balfour Forest Road and spent a week in jail, had a first court date. We hear from Jessica and from … Continue reading July 23, ’19 Jessica Ogden at court, Jens Wieting from Sierra Club on saving 54 old-growth trees

  Deputy Leader of the Green Party in BC, Sonia Furstenau was a guest on KCR’s Kootenay Morning Show last Friday.  I got to do the interview. Furstenau sure is an articulate advocate. Nelson City Council is bringing in a plan, and a challenge, to cut down on single use plastics in our community.  I … Continue reading July 16, ’19. Sonia Furstenau, Logtenberg on plastic reduction in Nelson, and crisis music!

Elsipogtog, New Brunswick.... no report yet on complaints about excessive RCMP violence in 2013! We hear from someone who was there. Premier Kenney launches inquiry about foreign funding of environmentalists..? Really!  Pipeline pays for greening? Or Not! We talk to Mitchell Beer from theenergymix.ca .   Corporate Mapping Project launches major research project: the structure of … Continue reading July 9, 2019… no report on RCMP violence at Elsipogtog New Brunswick… 6 years later. Green New Deal. Corporate Mapping. Environmentalist bogeymen.

22 minute video on Jessica's action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRjij-7jXyI&fbclid=IwAR3lkyXG3n2oEtAXH9bt4QLQ71kFXM0UjSjs2ETmQNRlGGl5ZW6ckGg26gs Logging blockader Jessica Ogden released from jail. Words of support and from the blockade. The Council of Canadians national Green New Deal campaigner, Dylan Penner, gives us an update. Edmonton net zero home builder Peter Amerongen talks about a high efficiency retrofit on the 59 units in Sundance … Continue reading July 2, 2019 Jessica Freed! Green New Deal update, large-scale energy retrofits

Jessica Ogden arrested blocking Balfour logging road, we hear from supporters and audio from the actual arrest. Gary Diers from www.willetwildernessforever.ca/ talks about discovering caribou in the Purcells, but Cooper Creek Cedar wants to log. https://cjlypodcast.net/ecocentric/ecocentric_june_25_2019.mp3

We hear about local logging protests one more time. And we have Joern Wingender on from the Harrop Proctor Community Coop that manages and logs in their watershed…a positive story and model.  And there’s a short report from last week’s Green New Deal TownHall in Nelson. Big rally in Vancouver against TransMountain pipeline… federal decision could … Continue reading June 11, 2019. More logging protest, Harrop Proctor sustainable logging, Green New Deal townhall

Host Keith Wiley speaks with Laura Sacks, winner of the 2019 Suzy Hamilton Legacy Award.  Jan Inglis talks about keeping up hope in uncertain times and there’s lots about the Pact for a Green New Deal, including excerpt from an Avi Lewis podcast on TheLeap.org. https://cjlypodcast.net/ecocentric/ecocentric_june_04_2019.mp3