November 25 2025

Broken Promises on saving old growth triggers rallies in Nelson and around BC. David Suzuki comes to Nelson to lend his support to the movement to protect forests. Speakers, Suzanne Simard, Herb Hammond, Rachel Holt, Ramona Faust lean in to explain the importance of protecting forest. OUTSTANDING SPEAKERS AT NELSON BROKEN PROMISES RALLY. RIGHT: DAVID … Continue reading November 25 2025

November 18 2025. The EcoCentric.

BC continues old growth clear cutting. Find out about RADON gas. LNG in BC could be wasted money CLEARCUT DEVASTATION OF OLD GROWTH NEAR REVELSTOKE. PHOTO: REANNE HARVEY. LISTEN NOW OR DOWNLOAD NOVEMBER 18 SHOW HERE: The BC government has talked a lot about protecting biosystems and old growth forests, but new research came out … Continue reading November 18 2025. The EcoCentric.

November 11 2025 EcoCentric

David Suzuki to speak at Nelson forest rally, November 18th. Forest activist Jennifer Houghton explains how watershed clearcuts can devastate communities. Federal budget guts climate action, an economist explains. LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD THE NOVEMBER 11 SHOW David Suzuki is coming to Nelson to speak at a rally to save old growth and primary forests on Tuesday, November … Continue reading November 11 2025 EcoCentric

November 4, 2025. EcoCentric

Drought brings hardship in the Slocan Valley. Communities organize to protect their water from clearcutsWhere does YOUR drinking water come from? THIS MAP SHOWS HOW MANY HUNDREDS OF SMALL WATER LICENCES ARE SPREAD ACROSS THE KOOTENAYS. LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD THE November 4 SHOW HERE Where does your drinking water come from? EcoCentric host Solita Work … Continue reading November 4, 2025. EcoCentric

October 28 2025. The EcoCentric

Forest ecologist Rachel Holt discusses what’s become of old growth and biodiversity big promises in BC. Local therapist Richard Klein has released a new book on facing up to the climate crisis. The global climate summit, the COP, is coming up in Brazil. The Climate Action Network gives us a preview. BC STILL VERY CONCERNED ABOUT … Continue reading October 28 2025. The EcoCentric

EcoCentric Oct 21 2025

Nelson Library hosts climate connections event. Slocan River streamkeeper, Gregoire Lamoureux gets Conservation Leadership Award. Pesticide Regulatory agency sticks with glyphosate. SLOCAN WETLAND PHOTO: SLOCAN RVIER STREAMKEEPERS. LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD OCT 21 ECOCENTRIC SHOW HERE: The Nelson Public Library and local climate groups are putting on a community reflection on climate and connected causes. That’s … Continue reading EcoCentric Oct 21 2025

Oct 14, 2025. EcoCentric

The animals sing and dance in new Kootenay musical. Nelson and RDCK’s Regional Energy Efficiency Program helps sort through the changing subsidies available for home retrofits. Princeton, BC faced floods and wildfires in recent years. Mayor Spencer Coyne says we need to keep the crisis from getting even worse. PRINCETON BC FLOODED IN 2021. … Continue reading Oct 14, 2025. EcoCentric

Sept. 30 2025. The EcoCentric

Riding the rail trail to Kimberley and biking summit Biking to a morning coffee meet up Active transportation summit in Kimberley brings activists from all over BC RAIL TRAIL PAULSON TRESTLE BETWEEN CHRISTINA LAKE AND CASTLEGAR. LISTEN TO THE SEPTEMBER 30 SHOW HERE Ciel Sander and her partner decided to ride their bikes from home … Continue reading Sept. 30 2025. The EcoCentric

September 23 2025. Logging resistance in the Walbran on Vancouver Island. Draw The Line protests across Canada and in Nelson! What’s happening with EVs in Canada?

DRAW THE LINE PARADE IN NELSON. PEOPLE. PEACE. PLANET. LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SEPTEMBER 23 SHOW HERE: Across Canada DrawThe Line protests brought out thousands and over 100 folks paraded in Nelson, too. Draw The Line was about the connections between the climate crisis, militarism, poverty injustice and genocide. We hear about what folks in Nelson … Continue reading September 23 2025. Logging resistance in the Walbran on Vancouver Island. Draw The Line protests across Canada and in Nelson! What’s happening with EVs in Canada?

September 16, 2025. Tofino bans plastic bottles. 5 years after ‘paradigm shift’, old growth forests still under threat. Big ‘national’ oil projects, what we need?

UNDISTURBED KOOTENAY FOREST: PHOTO KEITH WILEY. LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SEPTEMBER 16 SHOW HERE: Last week the District of Tofino on Vancouver Island finalized the ban on the sale of all single use plastic bottles one litre and under. Lilly Woodrow from the Surfrider Foundations tells us about why it took five years and why the … Continue reading September 16, 2025. Tofino bans plastic bottles. 5 years after ‘paradigm shift’, old growth forests still under threat. Big ‘national’ oil projects, what we need?