Just last week I published a blog post to the site hehiale.wordpress.com – this is a blog site of an amazing collective of Pacific writers sharing stories, poetry, and songs on struggle and activism. The blog I posted about is the role of the land in the climate movement. I had just been visited by a CNN reporter who asked… Read More
Poem: 2 Degrees
Last month CNN reporter John Sutter came down asking me to write a piece about the importance of the 2 degree number to climate change, as a part of his series on 2 degrees: http://edition.cnn.com/specials/opinions/two-degrees I agreed to do it – with a little spin of my own, by challenging the 2 degrees estimate, which actually places more islands under… Read More
there’s a journalist here
So I know in my last post I mentioned not wanting to be pigeonholed as a climate change writer. But I wrote this poem last night and yup – it’s climate themed, or more accurately it’s a reflection on climate change, the media, and how stories are framed. I’ve worked with a few journalists and documentary film makers since I… Read More
Why College of the Marshall Islands is divesting from fossil fuels – and why your institution should too
A few weeks ago I was called into the office of the President of the College of the Marshall Islands (CMI) Carl Hacker, to discuss his big announcement: that he would be pushing for CMI to divest from fossil fuels. All we need next is approval from the Board of Regents, which could possibly happen within a few weeks. “It… Read More
An apology to Taro Islanders and Solomon Islanders
I have to admit that I’ve been putting off writing this particularly blog post for a while now. It’s hard to admit when you make a huge mistake, and it’s even worse when you do it on a global scale. So here goes nothing. I wrote a poem, two months ago, called “dear matafele peinam” dedicated to my daughter, speaking on… Read More
Three Weeks after the UN Climate Summit or Coming Home to a Climate Reality
*This is an article I originally wrote for the UN-Non-Governmental Liason Services E-Magazine, three weeks after returning home from the United Nations Summit. It has been three weeks since I spoke and performed “Dear Matafele Peinam” at the United Nations opening of the Climate Summit. Three weeks, and still I am processing the amazing whirlwind that was the few days… Read More
