Doctors & Nurses for Planetary Health

11/07/2025

Come join us and the West Kootenay Climate Hub this Saturday at the Nelson Public Library!

11/07/2025

🌿 Thriving Together: Connecting Communities, Health, and the Environment 🌎
An evening of reflection, connection, and hope

Saturday, November 8th
6:30 - 8:30 PM
Everyone is welcome and light refreshments will be served!

Climate touches every part of our lives. To energize our community around these common concerns, the library will join the West Kootenay Climate Hub and Doctors and Nurses for Planetary Health in hosting an evening of food, connection and discussion on causes we all care about.

Bring your thoughts, your questions, and your curiosity. Let’s connect, and imagine what’s possible!

06/26/2025

Powerful article in the Nelson Star written by DNPH’s own, Raelynn Gibson, RN.

06/26/2025

Powerful article by our own DNPH member Raelynn Gibson.

https://www.nelsonstar.com/opinion/column-when-my-son-thought-it-was-snowing-in-june-8088437

04/28/2025

DNPH at the Earth Week Parade 🌎🤍
Thanks for organizing West Kootenay Climate Hub

04/22/2025

Earth Day 2025 at KLH means fill the bike room! Thanks to 20+ staff for choosing this method of active transportation and producing a record number of bikes in this room, and to several more staff for coming to the event!

04/22/2025

Earth Week in Nelson, come celebrate!

The Backstory of Earth Week 2025 – Nelson, BC 🌍

In November 2024, four passionate members of the West Kootenay Climate Hub sat down over coffee with a simple question: "What if we plan Earth Day this year?"

At first, Earth Day just meant - maybe? - organizing a parade. But then we wondered, what if we get creative about this?

We asked:
✨ What excites us about this planet?
✨ How can we spark that excitement in others?

A brainstorming session led to community connections, overflowing creativity, and an outpouring of support. The result?
Earth Week 2025 – a full week of free events celebrating the resilience of our planet and the spirit of our community.

From last year’s modest booth and art table at Taghum Hall, we now have:

🌿 25 unique events over 7 days
🎭 A costumed parade led by the Moving Mosaic Samba Band
🌍 Nature walks, a ReDesign Innovation Competition, Lalin choir soundscape, Green Film Festival, Solution Cafés, and more
🚲 A bike-powered smoothie machine finale at the Nelson and District Youth Centre

All made possible by the work of dedicated volunteers, and the support of community-minded sponsors like:
💚 Nelson & District Credit Union
💚 Columbia Basin Trust
💚 Columbia Power
💚 Kootenay Co-op
💚 The Hume Hotel
💚 Nelson Kootenay Lake Tourism
💚 City of Nelson
💚 Nelson and District Youth Centre

We dreamed together, we built together, and now — we celebrate together.

01/26/2025

Some of our members were present for this Sue Big Oil !

Thanks Greg and Therin for the awesome presentation on at Regional District of Central Kootenay's Board meeting yesterday. And thanks to everyone who came out to support, or who attended online. It's critical that our local governments understand the climate costs that taxpayers are already paying, while fossil fuel corporations rake in absurd profits. Joining the campaign is one way to recoup some of those costs.

01/26/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPD4H78A1ns

Join doctors in calling on Ottawa to strengthen and pass oil and gas pollution regulations to protect the health of our families and communities — because w...

12/27/2024

Congrats to our colleagues at West Coast Doctors for Planetary Health !

11/12/2024

Pleas consider signing at:
https://lngandhealthcare.ca

11/03/2024

Calling all climate-conscious health care professionals! Message us for details of this upcoming event.