Ed Kashi

1 month ago | philanthropy.com | Nicole Wallace |Ed Kashi

Students at Cal Poly Humboldt come together with community members to learn about and study Indigenous food traditions and land-management practices at the Rou Dalagurr Food Sovereignty Lab and Traditional Ecological Knowledges Institute. Rou Dalagurr is a Wiyot phrase that means “everyone works” or “works together.” An institute at Cal Poly Humboldt has hosted seed and plant exchanges, workshops on tuna canning, and more.

Aug 27, 2024 | smithsonianmag.com | Julie Winokur |Ed Kashi

Jane Gilbert has one foot submerged in mud as she lowers a small cypress tree into the ground. Sweat seeps through her shirt, even though it’s barely hot by Miami-Dade standards: a mere 86 degrees with cloying humidity. Gilbert and a group of Girl Scouts are planting 500 native trees in the Miami-area city of Coral Gables to help mitigate climate change.

Feb 27, 2024 | buffalonews.com | Ed Kashi

FILE — An aerial view of the Chemours plant in Fayetteville, N.C., July 15, 2021. This week, in response to a petition by community groups in North Carolina, a United Nations panel called the dumping of contaminated wastewater by a chemical plant on the Cape Fear River a human rights issue, broadening the scope of a global fight over the harms from what are known as forever chemicals, or by their acronym, PFAS. (Ed Kashi/The New York Times)

Jan 15, 2024 | theguardian.com | Ed Kashi |Ilvy Njiokiktjien |Sara Terry

The world’s population is about to become older than it has ever been: by the year 2030, one in six people will be over the age of 60. People, societies and governments will need to confront one of the most fundamental population shifts in human history. In the seven years leading up to 2030, the lives of people over 60 will be illustrated via a multi-year, visual storytelling archive.

Jul 20, 2023 | therawsocietystories.substack.com | Ed Kashi

I first entered Northern Iraq in April of 1991, right after the first Gulf War, which aimed to dislodge Saddam Hussain’s forces from Kuwait, a small country he invaded the previous year. From 1975 to 1990, Saddam’s forces had killed at least 150,000 Kurds in Iraq, and destroyed over 4,000 towns and villages. In 1988, Saddam dropped chemical weapons in the eastern city of Halabja, killing thousands.