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Flashback to a fantastic week learning how sustainability can be integrated into the food we eat and the wine we drink in the future as climate change picks up. This was a real farm to table experience! Thank you again for including me in this awesome @discoverychannel episode featuring visionary chef @chefjohncox and @thebearandstar in Los Olivos, CA, produced by @think_make_create - And thank you to Bill @compasswinetours for showing us the best of Los Olivos! Photo by Blake Bronstad @posesawkwardly
Me in nature 🌞
Missing this place today!! Took this four years ago, the first time I visited Kiribati. This is the view from my bwia, or thatched sleeping hut, from where I stayed with my first host family, Amon and Tekinati, in Tabiteuea Village in Tarawaeita. Miss this magical place so much!
We went out at dawn to check out the sea creatures and seaweeds along the coast with Chef John Cox and marine biologist Andrew Kim. It’s important that any seafood or sea plants are harvested sustainably given how many things have been fished or harvested to extinction - and it’s really cool seeing chefs working so closely with scientists to ensure that happens!
Still so impressed with the fabulous dinner Chef John prepared for us at Thursday’s Dinner of the Future and the many ways he incorporated sustainability & water conservation in every step of the meal - from the food production to washing the dishes. He’s producing vegetables with aquaponics which is significantly more water efficient than traditional cultivation, and he’s growing seaweed inland in an effort to eventually incorporate it into the cattle’s diets - which some studies have shown could reduce the cattle’s methane production by up to 90 percent if a certain type of seaweed is used. And during the drought he developed a way to wash dishes using compressed air instead of water, which is important in California especially during years and years of intense droughts. Thank you @chefjohncox for including me in probably the best meal I’ll ever eat - can’t wait to see what other projects you’ve got in store ! & so honored to be part of such a great group!!
I’m on my way to Santa Barbara to be a part of a Discovery Channel documentary series focusing on climate change, California, and the future of food. I’m honored to be a guest at the “Dinner of the Future” with Chef John Cox (@chefjohncox) at the Bear and Star in Los Olivos, where our discussions will “focus on how environmental and technological changes are impacting the way we eat.” So excited to meet leaders in sustainability and eat some fantastic, sustainably-sourced meals!
This used to be a road on Marakei Island in the low-lying Pacific island nation of Kiribati. I visited right after a king tide had washed it away in 2015. The road has been washed away several times before, but now it’s happening more frequently. Part of the reason this is happening is sea level rise, which is caused by land based glacier melt, the warming of the ocean which is leading to water expansion, and the melting of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. Human alterations to the shoreline also play a role but the main challenge is severe high tides that wipe out and destroy property, kill staple food crops, and infiltrate drinking water wells.
Big Sur. December 3, 2017 💜
Summer solstice sunset over the sound ~ with sailboats ⛵️🌞
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 !