More than 30 events are planned across Yellowknife to mark Earth Week 2025, beginning April 22.
Organized by Ecology North, this year’s programming will start with a walk around Niven Lake Trail led by Lila Fraser Erasmus to learn about traditional medicines. Two to four events will follow each day until May 3, all free to attend.
“This is the biggest Earth Week we’ve had, thanks to the generosity of our partners,” said Hannah Ascough, the public outreach project officer at Ecology North. “And I think that speaks to a hunger within the community to celebrate and come together in service of the planet.”
“I think what Earth Week can do for people is to bring people together, and to recognize that the climate crisis is not something that you have to take on alone, and that we’re in this together,” she said.
Highlights include:
- A presentation by Cassandra Blondin-Burt on April 25 about research conducted in 2022, prior to the wildfires, and has been on going since, on the positive impacts of prescriptive burning for medicine plants and food systems, like blueberries;
- Ever Good Medicine will host a Soil and Skin workshop that look at how our bodies are connect to Mother Earth on Saturday; and
- A guided walk led by NWT Literacy Council where participants get to read a few pages of Cathy Modeste-Short’s book, Dechı̨tah Náıdı́: Medicine from the Land.
The full schedule can be found on Ecology North’s website. All events are open to the public for free, though some may require registration as spots are limited.
UPDATE: April 18. Facts about Cassandra Blondin Burt’s event were clarified.
