LEILA DARWISH on Grassroots Earth Repair /23
Photo of contaminated gas station site by Ashlee Attebery
Leila Darwish is a community organizer, author, permaculture designer, educator, urban gardener, and grassroots herbalist with a deep commitment to environmental justice, decolonization, food sovereignty, and to providing accessible and transformative tools for communities dealing with toxic contamination of their land and drinking water.
Leila Darwish
Over the last decade, she has worked as a grassroots bioremediation instructor for different environmental organizations and community groups in Alberta, BC and the USA on campaigns such as tar sands, fracking, nuclear energy, coal, climate justice, water protection, and more. We will be discussing her book from New Society Publishers entitled Earth Repair: A Grassroots Guide to Healing Toxic and Damaged Landscapes.
♫ Music “Garden Of Simple” by Ani Difranco, "Cool Drink of Water Blues" by Tommy Johnson, "Brother Warrior" by Kate Wolf and "Sound The Alarm" by Thievery Corporation
For The Wild is a slow media organization dedicated to land-based protection, co-liberation, and intersectional storytelling. We are rooted in a paradigm shift away from human supremacy, endless growth, and consumerism. As we dream towards a world of grounded justice and reciprocity, our work highlights impactful stories and deeply-felt meaning making as balms for these times.