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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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The first video short is out from the fantastic dinner of the future with Chef John Cox (@chefjohncox ) at the Bear and Star in Los Olivos, California! I’m honored to have been part of this special meal filled with innovation, sustainable, and delicious food that might be what we’ll be eating in the future as our climate changes! The link is in my bio! The two part series will air on Discovery Channel in January. @alisonvand @hilarycadigan @gabesaglie @andywangnyla @kristasimmons @fessparkerwinery @thirdwindowbrewing @discovery @thinkmakecreate @insta360 @eventsbyfessparker @ranihooverinspiredweddings
Riding bikes across Tarawa for the 2015 Pole to Paris global bike ride to raise awareness of climate change and the impacts it’s having on communities around the world.
Happy indigenous peoples day to some of the most inspiring and brave people I’ve met!! Here are some photos of friends and climate warriors I’ve met over the past few years who’ve become like family. Indigenous communities are some of the most affected by climate change and environmental issues- and they’re some of the most vocal and powerful advocates for transitioning away from fossil fuels. There are many people I don’t have photos with but grateful to have you in my life!
Tahoe is magic ✨🌞
Had a great time at Crater Lake and in the Sierras before spending five days in the Portola Hospital 💙💚
Visited my first fire lookout 🌞🔥
Honored to be featured along with such talented journalists in this piece ! The Solutions Journalism Network’s Freelance Fund helped me report on greenhouses that are helping small farmers in India adapt to climate change. Read more here: https://thewholestory.solutionsjournalism.org/11-a-solutions-stories-from-our-freelance-fund-grantees-9a6ed1c3732
Roubena Ritata showing me the way to a sacred burial ground on Banaba Island. Banaba was strip mined for phosphate for nearly 70 years by the British Phosphate Commission. Not only did this make the land uninhabitable, but it disrupted some of the Banabans’ cultural heritage. A BPC worker stole the skull of one of the Banabans’ most important ancestors during the mining. It’s believed that the island won’t return to prosperity until the skull is returned. I was asked by the elders to help return this skull. I’m still searching.
Indigenous communities in Canada had a huge success this week against the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion—a Federal Court of Appeal ruled that the Canadian government failed to receive adequate informed consent from First Nations communities and that pipeline construction would be halted immediately. This is after months and months of creative, nonviolent direct actions from indigenous groups along the pipeline route, including the Tiny House Warriors ! You can read more about their efforts at the link in my bio.
A photo from the field with Kheyti, an Indian nonprofit that’s helping small farmers in rural India adapt to the extreme droughts that are happening more frequently as a result of climate change. This is me with my friend and translator Rakesh and his father in front of one of Kheyti’s greenhouses. These greenhouses block some of the sunlight, keeping a controlled temperature inside the greenhouse. They’ve allowed farmers to use 90 percent less water than traditional cultivation, which is important in a region that’s experienced some of the highest rates of farmer suicides in the last few years. You can read more on Nat Geo, the link is in my bio!
This is the shrine to Nei Rotebenua on Marakei Island in Kiribati. Every visitor to Marakei must go around the island and place offerings at each of the island’s four shrines in a practice called te katabanin, or they will be cursed-many people have gotten very ill or gone mad if they don’t pay these respects, the islanders told me. But in recent years, the sea has been creeping closer to these shrines and is very close to Nei Rotebenua. The elders on the island are concerned because the few who knew how to move a shrine inland have passed away. Climate change will continue to increase global sea levels which, in Kiribati, threatens these shrines and the cultural practices associated with them. I wrote about this a few years ago while on a Fulbright/National Geographic Fellowship in Kiribati - there’s a link in my bio if you’d like to learn more!
Coral sea walls in Tarawaeita, Kiribati, where the elevation is no more than 3 meters above sea level. With global warming that means these communities are facing daily challenges with salt water in their drinking wells.
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!