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Growing up in a tiny community of around 4,000 people in rural Grand Forks in British Columbia, Canada, got to see the regenerative power of nature up close. “When I was about six or seven, the cats brought home a snake, and a third of its body was mangled,” the now London-based DJ and producer remembers. With her father’s assistance, she built a box surrounded with chicken wire.

(“Although I don’t know why that would have helped, because it was a snake and it would have just crawled through, thinking about it.”) Every day, they refilled the box with grass. And “every day, I would check on the little snake to see if it was okay.



I think we kept it for, like, three weeks, and, at the end, it completely healed. We let it go.” Perhaps this helps explain the positive outlook of her first documentary, tackling the climate crisis.

A rare ray of sunshine cutting through the gloom, it is, overwhelmingly, a story of hope. While Jayda may be best known for her Grammy-nominated album or packed-out, critically acclaimed and Boiler Room sets, she’s a self-confessed “nerd and biologist at heart.” Specialising in environmental toxicologist for her master’s degree, she admits she “would be kidding myself if I said I didn’t have those moments of despair.

” But while she still feels the panic she first felt learning the bleak stats about our planet’s future at school, “for me personally, those stories of hope are the things that get me out of bed, embolden me t.

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