ZEKE Magazine: Spring 2022
Sustainable Solutions to the Climate Crisis Indigenous Fire by Kiliii Yuyan The Indigenous Peoples' Burn Network is training others in an ancient technique of ecological restoration, which is to safely light low-intensity fires in wet seasons that remove the small fuels on the forest floor. Nemo's Garden by Giacomo d'Orlando Nemo’s Garden—the world’s first underwater greenhouses of terrestrial plants—represents an alternative farming system dedicated to those areas where environmental conditions make the growth of plants almost impossible. Permagarden Refugees by Sarah Fretwell The Palabek refugee settlement in Northern Uganda, with the staff of African Women Rising’s (AWR) Permagarden Program, works with refugees to utilize the existing resources—seeds, rainfall, limited land, and “waste”—and together build an agriculture system designed to help the environment regenerate and get stronger as it matures. Sustainable Solutions to the Climate Crisis by Antonia Juhasz Interview with Kiliii Yuyan by Caterina Clerici Dispatches from Ukraine by Maranie Staab Book Reviews Edited by Michelle Bogre
Sustainable Solutions to the Climate Crisis
Indigenous Fire by Kiliii Yuyan
The Indigenous Peoples' Burn Network is training others in an ancient technique of ecological restoration, which is to safely light low-intensity fires in wet seasons that remove the small fuels on the forest floor.
Nemo's Garden by Giacomo d'Orlando
Nemo’s Garden—the world’s first underwater greenhouses of terrestrial plants—represents an alternative farming system dedicated to those areas where environmental conditions make the growth of plants almost impossible.
Permagarden Refugees
by Sarah Fretwell
The Palabek refugee settlement in Northern Uganda, with the staff of African Women Rising’s (AWR) Permagarden Program, works with refugees to utilize the existing resources—seeds, rainfall, limited land, and “waste”—and together build an agriculture system designed to help the environment regenerate and get stronger as it matures.
Sustainable Solutions to the Climate Crisis
by Antonia Juhasz
Interview with Kiliii Yuyan by Caterina Clerici
Dispatches from Ukraine by Maranie Staab
Book Reviews Edited by Michelle Bogre
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<strong>ZEKE</strong> AWARD FOR SYSTEMIC CHANGE<br />
FIRST-PLACE WINNER<br />
Indigenous Fire<br />
Photos by<br />
Kiliii Yuyan<br />
United States<br />
Despite the intense focus on apocalyptic<br />
wildfires raging across the<br />
American West, scant attention<br />
is paid to solutions to climate<br />
change-exacerbated wildfire. One<br />
in particular–fire-lighting rather<br />
than fire-fighting–has proven to be an<br />
exceptional weapon against a seemingly<br />
impossible opponent on a landscape-level<br />
scale. It’s known as cultural fire. People<br />
like Margo Robbins and Elizabeth Azzuz<br />
of the Indigenous Peoples’ Burn Network<br />
are training others in an ancient technique<br />
of ecological restoration, which is to safely<br />
light low-intensity fires in wet seasons that<br />
remove the small fuels on the forest floor.<br />
Not only does it effectively prevent wildfires<br />
from spreading, but it also performs a<br />
13,000-year-old function—the restoration of<br />
health of the forests of Northern California,<br />
the most diverse coniferous forests on earth.<br />
Kiliii Yuyan illuminates stories of the Arctic<br />
and human communities connected to the<br />
land and sea. Informed by ancestry that is<br />
both Nanai/Hèzhé (East Asian Indigenous)<br />
and Chinese American, he explores the<br />
human relationship to the natural world from<br />
different cultural perspectives and extreme<br />
environments, on land and underwater. Kiliii<br />
is an award-winning contributor to National<br />
Geographic, TIME, and other major publications.<br />
Kiliii is one of PDN’s 30 Photographers<br />
(2019), a National Geographic<br />
Explorer, and a member of Indigenous<br />
Photograph and Diversify Photo. His work<br />
has been exhibited worldwide and received<br />
some of photography’s top honors.<br />
Margo Robbins, of the Cultural Fire<br />
Management Council, leads firefighters<br />
as they light an Indigenous-prescribed<br />
burn with bundles of wormwood in<br />
ceremony, near Weitchpec, CA.<br />
2 / <strong>ZEKE</strong> SPRING <strong>2022</strong>
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