UBC-Okanagan Water Week Event

Indigenous Thinking on Sustainability in a Climate-Challenged World

Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Rotary Centre for the Arts -- 421 Cawston Ave, Kelowna, B.C.
Tickets: Tickets are free and will be available as of Feb. 25 -- they must be picked up or ordered in advance from the Rotary Centre for the Arts box office (call 250-717-5304).

Winona LaDuke, a Native American activist applauded worldwide for her work on environmental and social issues, is the World Water Week presenter in UBC Okanagan’s Distinguished Speaker Series.

On March 25 during World Water Week, LaDuke will speak in Kelowna about indigenous views of the environment, efforts to protect land on the White Earth Ojibwe Reservation in Minnesota where she lives, and how thinking seven generations ahead would impact our world’s natural systems -- particularly water, agriculture and energy.