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Canada - Trans Mountain Pipeline Resistance - Tiny House Warriors & Protect the Inlet 2018

Kiribati 2014-2016

Banaba Island 2016

Fiji 2014-2016

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Making coconut sugar as part of the Kiribati Organic Producers, a cooperative that’s allowing families on the outer islands of Kiribati to generate income while reviving elements of traditional Kiribati culture like te karekare, a way to share the labor between members of the village. You can read more about Kiribati 🇰🇮 at the link in my bio ⬆️
Beautiful British Columbia - a pipeline might cut thru a lot of this pristine land that’s been important to the indigenous people since before European settlers arrived. It threatens the ecology but also the cultural heritage and land rights of these communities. You can read more on my website janicecantieri.com #stopkm
Women in British Columbia are fighting a pipeline by constructing tiny houses in its path. In addition to blocking the pipeline, these houses serve two purposes - providing housing for native communities who’ve been forced to live on reserve housing that’s unhealthy (filled with asbestos) and unaffordable (Canada placed huge mortgages on these houses; even tho native people were required to live there without choosing to do so). And because the houses are on wheels, they’re also reviving elements of traditional Secwepemc culture. Pictured here are Kanahus Manuel and Linda Black Elk. Published this story this past week in @yesmagazine_ follow the link in my bio to read more http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/indigenous-women-built-these-tiny-houses-to-block-a-pipeline-and-reclaim-nomadic-traditions-20180516
Low-cost greenhouses that reflect sunlight are helping small farmers in rural India adapt to climate change. Kheyti’s greenhouses are fitted with drip irrigation and allow farmers to use 90 percent less water, so farmers are able to grow throughout the increasingly intense droughts. A solution that could potentially be adapted to work in most drought-prone regions. Read more in this piece @natgeo with photographs by @sarahyltonphoto (this photo here is mine) https://news.nationalgeographic.com/future-of-food/telangana-india-agriculture-greenhouses/ thank you to @solutionsjournalism for helping make this story happen!
Asbestos exposure is a consequence of colonialism that’s still affecting two of the indigenous communities I’ve worked and lived with. This is Bwebwenemena Taam. She’s cooking over an open fire in her home, an abandoned facility used by the British Phosphate Commission, who strip-mined Banaba from 1901-1979. They left behind housing that’s filled with asbestos sheeting and failed to inform the Banabans that this was toxic. I wrote this story two years ago and have been trying to get the governments responsible to do something, but still, nothing has happened. I’ve recently been covering stories affecting the indigenous communities in British Columbia, and while doing my research discovered that many of the houses built on reserves were made using Zonolite, an asbestos insulation. People are still dying of mesothelioma in indigenous communities, after being displaced from their homes and placed in houses they didn’t choose to live in to begin with. You can read about the Banabans here: https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2016/04/08/living-on-a-tropical-island-and-an-asbestos-wasteland/ . . . . . . . . . #banaba #colonialism #phosphate #mining #asbestos #indigenous #toxic #pacific #micronesia #environment #displacement #environmentaljustice #canada #secwepemc #firstnations #stopkm #pipeline #tslielwatuth #watchhouse #natgeo #tinyhousewarriors #culturalgenocide #britishcolumbia #climatechange #kindermorgan
“[Sustainability] is not a cause, this is not something you just do on a Sunday to feel better about yourself—fifteen Hail Marys, clean up the beach and you’re done. It’s not something that you check off a list...It’s a way of living, it’s changing the way you look at stuff and things, your relationship to convenience, and the enjoyment of things in your life. And that actually results in more sustainable behaviors and experiences because you’re more connected.” —Adrian Grenier (@adriangrenier) on Kamèa Chayne’s (@kameachayne) new Green Dreamer podcast! Everyone should check out Green Dreamer, a podcast that addresses how we can fully integrate sustainability into our lives and create a healthy, sustainable future for the world—produced by one of my best friends and just launched today! So proud of you and inspired @kameachayne !
RIP Larry Harvey thank you for creating heaven on earth 💖💕🌏🚲🌈✨
I spent the weekend with Mayuk and Kanahus Manuel of the Secwepemc Nation in British Columbia. They’re the founders of the tiny House Warriors, a group of women building tiny, movable houses and strategically placing them in the pathway of the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion. I’ll have a story out this week but until then, check out the album they released as a fundraiser! With all indigenous artists and all the profits go to the Tiny House Warriors: https://tinyhousewarriors.bandcamp.com
Finally published! Read how small farmers in India are using low cost greenhouses to adapt to climate change! With fantastic photos by @sarahyltonphoto (I took this photo here, hers are outstanding!!) The story can be found on the Nat Geo homepage or at the link in my bio - thanks to everyone who made this possible !! https://news.nationalgeographic.com/future-of-food/telangana-india-agriculture-greenhouses/
A nice hole-in-the-wall
This is my adopted/sponsored daughter Nei Ruta! I just heard from Ruta and her mother Nancy for the first time since I left the islands last night! When I was on Rabi Island (Fiji), Ruta was only 2 and would come into my room every day and make faces at me and was so funny even though she wasn’t talking yet. Someone in the family joked that I should pack her in my suitcase and bring her back to the USA with me. Her mother then asked if I really could do that because Ruta was the youngest of six kids and her mother has epilepsy and worried that she wouldn’t be around for Ruta. I was only 23 and still figuring out how to take care of myself, and wouldn’t want to take this sweet girl away from her mother and her homeland, but I’m sponsoring her education until she is a bit older and she can come to the States for high school or college if she wants ! The family held an adoption botaki or celebration before I left, and this is the first I’ve been able to hear from Nei Ruta in two years!! Her birthday is this Saturday, she’s turning four. 😍
This place is magic
Best of ~ trees in Olympic & Mt. Rainier National Parks🌲🌳🌱🌞
Sunshine on Staircase Loop !