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Kiribati 2014-2016

Banaba Island 2016

Fiji 2014-2016

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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 !
Sunny day in Staircase !
Missing the sunsets & the people at this place 💜🌞📚
Since last week’s major mobilization on Burnaby Mountain over 60 people - including elderly people, teachers, students, and Rex Weyler, the founder of Greenpeace- have been arrested protesting the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion. People tied themselves to the Kinder Morgan fence and scaled trees and erect structures to prevent Kinder Morgan from cutting them down. This is peaceful civil disobedience - on land that the Coast Salish people never ceded to the Canadian gov. #protecttheinlet
Read about Saturday’s indigenous-led march in Vancouver to stop the Kinder-Morgan pipeline expansion: Tribes Build a Traditional Watch House to Stop Kinder Morgan Pipeline expansion http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/tribes-build-a-traditional-watch-house-to-stop-kinder-morgan-pipeline-expansion-20180313#Kwekwecnewtxw #protectourcoast
Rose Siccana burns sage at the front of Saturday's Protect the Inlet rally in metro Vancouver. Thousands of indigenous leaders and concerned citizens marched in the streets to voice their opposition to the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline, which would more than double the amount of oil traveling from the Alberta tar sands to Vancouver.
Linda Black Elk (Catawba Nation, head medic at Standing Rock) & Kanahus Manuel (Secwepemc & Ktunaxa) at Saturday’s resistance against the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion in Burnaby, British Columbia. Kanahus started the Tiny House Warriors to build tiny homes and strategically place them along the proposed pipeline route which is all unceded First Nations territory. The tiny homes are solar powered, on wheels, and have composting toilets. They’re painted with indigenous art and are a powerful act of resistance, but they’re also solving housing challenges within First Nations communities, as many families struggle to pay off the mortgages that Canada placed on the homes they gave them for resettlement.
Yadav and Bujji grow vegetables inside a special greenhouse designed for climate change-induced droughts in India. These greenhouses reflect the sunlight to keep temperatures down and are fitted with drip irrigation systems that use 90 percent less water than traditional growing. Their story will run with Nat Geo in March.