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.

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