Climate Change

5m 48s

Project Video Trailer

uploaded by: Ian Mauro

channel: Ian Mauro's Blog on Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change

Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change. Here's the a trailer developed for this project that was shot in the community of Pangnirtung. Over the past year, Pangnirtung has been ravaged by climate change impacts, which has caused glacial melting to wash away a number of bridges in the community, causing a local state of emergency in the summer of 2008.… Read more

uploaded date: 02-05-2009
Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change

uploaded by: Ian Mauro

About the film
Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change had its world premiere October 23, 2010, at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto. The complete film also streamed online simultaneously watched by more than 1500 viewers around the world. Following the film, a Q&A with filmmakers Zacharias Kunuk and Dr.… Read more

uploaded date: 29-04-2009
6m 34s

Local solutions on a sinking paradise, Carterets Islands, Papua New Guinea

uploaded by: Gabriela Gamez

channel: UNU

In December 2008, the low-lying Carterets Islands were badly damaged by king tides and violent storm surges. Nicholas Hakata, a local youth leader and community representative, explains that he and his family have been surviving on mainly fish and coconuts, and battling the swamp mosquitoes that have brought malaria.
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uploaded date: 21-04-2009
9m 4s

The forbidden forest of the Dayak - Borneo, Indonesia

uploaded by: Gabriela Gamez

channel: UNU

Deep in the old growth forests of Borneo, the Setulang Dayak village guards its forest with might. To date, the village's traditional law of Tana Olen (forbidden forest), withstands increasing pressure from encroaching logging industries.… Read more

uploaded date: 21-04-2009
6m 41s

Walking on Country with Spirits: Biodiversity Loss in Australia's Wet Tropics

uploaded by: Gabriela Gamez

channel: UNU

(2009, 6:40min, UNU)… Read more

uploaded date: 21-04-2009
6m 27s

Sea level rise in Kowanyama. Cape York, Australia

uploaded by: Gabriela Gamez

channel: UNU

“When that whole ocean comes and rises up, where are we going to go?” ponders Inherkowinginambana, a Kunjen elder from Kowanyama, a coastal Aboriginal community in tropical Queensland, Australia. Like other coastal peoples, Australian Aboriginals living traditionally on gulf coastal plains are particularly susceptible to even the most minor changes in sea level and monsoon flooding.
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uploaded date: 21-04-2009
5m 31s

Fighting carbon with fire - Arnhemland, Australia

uploaded by: Gabriela Gamez

channel: UNU

The fire abatement scheme of Western Arnhemland is a carbon offset community programme, gaining a lot of international attention.
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uploaded date: 21-04-2009
UNU

uploaded by: UNUChannel

Indigenous Perspectives on Climate Change videobriefs series. A series of short UNU videobriefs exploring climate change and its impacts from the perspectives of Indigenous community members in Australia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

Available for summit viewing:
Indigenous Perspectives on Climate Change videobriefs series
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uploaded date: 21-04-2009
Siila

uploaded by: Sheila Watt Cloutier

Sheila Watt-Cloutier
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uploaded date: 19-04-2009
Forum Signs MOU With Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated

uploaded by: IsumaTV

Forum Signs MOU With Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated for Exploration of Inuit Owned Land Nearby Areva's Kiggavik Uranium Deposit, Nunavut
FORUM URANIUM CORP ORD
FDCFF | 12/2/2008 1:00:52 PM
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uploaded date: 16-04-2009
Darrell Greer, 'Painting an accurate picture'

uploaded by: IsumaTV

channel: Inuit discussion about mining

Darrell Greer
Painting an accurate picture
Kivalliq News, Wednesday March 25, 2009
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uploaded date: 13-04-2009
Abraham Tagalik, 'Rankin a 'have' community while others fight for scraps'

uploaded by: IsumaTV

channel: Inuit discussion about mining

Abraham Tagalik
Iqaluit
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Rankin a 'have' community while others fight for scraps

Kivalliq News editor Darrell Greer practically asked to be chastised by other communities for his editorial on a new arena for Rankin Inlet (March 4, Kivalliq News), but I'm not sure if anyone obliged.
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uploaded date: 13-04-2009
Joan Scottie, 'Know-it-all editor should stop preaching to Inuit'

uploaded by: IsumaTV

channel: Inuit discussion about mining

Joan Scottie
Baker Lake
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Know-it-all editor should stop preaching to Inuit

I am so incensed I can't think in English after reading Darrell Greer's editorial comment about Areva's proposed uranium mine west of Baker Lake (Kivalliq News, Feb. 25).

Has Mr. Greer ever heard of cultural values other than his own?… Read more

uploaded date: 13-04-2009
Peter Irniq, 'Editor doesn't understand Inuit culture'

uploaded by: IsumaTV

channel: Inuit discussion about mining

Peter Irniq
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
To News North
Editor doesn't understand Inuit culture
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uploaded date: 13-04-2009
Darrell Greer, 'Company offers brighter future, not land Armageddon'

uploaded by: IsumaTV

channel: Inuit discussion about mining

Company offers brighter future, not land Armageddon
Editorial Comment
Darrell Greer
Kivalliq News - Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Sometimes tough decisions need to be made.

Other times decisions are made to look tougher than they actually are, thanks to the spin put out by groups with a vested interest in the outcome.
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uploaded date: 13-04-2009
Isuma touts plan for high-speed internet

uploaded by: IsumaTV

channel: Inuit discussion about mining

Isuma touts plan for high-speed internet
Nunatsiaq News, Letter to the Editor, December 19, 2008

Joan Scottie's strong letter (NTI, Inuit associations do not serve Inuit, Nunatsiaq News, Nov. 14) expresses the disappointment of many Inuit who feel left out of the decisionmaking process about mining, development and the future of our traditional homeland.… Read more

uploaded date: 13-04-2009

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