RESOURCES & further READING

A collection of research, reporting, conversations, & ideas that have helped inform my thinking about the issues facing Nelson and the possibilities for shaping a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient community.

I’ll continue to add to this list….

• Article: The housing industry has become a new kind of empire, says 2026 CBC Massey Lecturer

• Report: 2025 Annual Report Card on Homelessness – Nelson, BC

• Data: Household Food Insecurity in BC

• Video: The Economics of Eating – Local Food Can Save the World

• Podcast: Dr. Jessica Gordon-Nembhard: How to Build a Cooperative Economy
• Book: Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community

“I am writing this because I do not have much optimism about what is coming in our society, in our world. We are standing at the edge of catastrophic climate breakdown and the fall of a long empire, and all the collateral damage which the fall of an empire brings. Nothing stable is going to last; and the only way that we, the small and the ordinary, might survive in any decent way is if we learn to take care of each other, to do it deeply and consistently and in ways that will change how we think and how we live. This is one story, flawed and incomplete, of people who have been trying to look after each other in very hard times, and some of the ways in which we have been changed.

And I am writing this because if you want to know who someone is, you can ask them.” —Excerpt from Encampment by Maggie Helwig