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Communities struggle to build back better nine months after Cyclone Pam (IFRC - International Federation ...

Edit Public Technologies 30 Dec 2015
(Source. IFRC - International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies). By Navinesh Kumar, IFRC ... 'I live next to the coast ... In total the Red Cross has reached approximately 2,500 people across the Solomon Islands with emergency relief assistance and is targeting a further 1,500 people in the very remote islands of Anuta and Tikopia with recovery activities in the coming year ... (noodl. 31489379) ....

Protests in Lebanon reflect the disease not the cure

Edit Al Jazeera 28 Aug 2015
Another set of political demonstrations has taken off in the Arab world. This time it is in Lebanon, where a summer of rubbish in the streets has triggered street riots reminiscent of Tahrir Square ... Welcome to the future ... Also read ... Also read ... He also mentions how Iceland and the southwest Pacific island of Tikopia were successful in meeting the challenges ... If Iceland and Tikopia can do it, surely Lebanon can. Source. Al Jazeera. ....

Anglican Church of Melanesia supports Vanuatu communities to rebuild after Cyclone Pam (The Anglican Communion)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Jul 2015
(Source. The Anglican Communion) ... Up to 15,000 homes were destroyed across the 22 islands in the storm's path, leaving 75,000 people in need of emergency shelter ... Rebuilding as a community ... On Tikopia Island, at the extreme southern, cyclone-prone edge of the Solomon Islands, North East of Vanuatu, the traditional houses are built on sand out of plant leaves and bush trees and are almost always destroyed when there is a cyclone ... (noodl....

Explorer Dumont D'Urville laid bare in biography by Edward Duyker

Edit The Australian 05 Jun 2015
What a gallery it is! Nantucket-born David Whippy, who lived as a trader on Levuka in the Fiji group, and would father 12 children by six local partners; Irish doctor turned Mauritian grandee Charles Telfair; Bengali Lascar Achwolia, who had made his home on Tikopia and adopted Polynesian dress and manners; “John” Niederhauser, a ......

Volunteering's 'the hardest and the best thing ever'

Edit Stuff 18 Jan 2015
My wife Brigid and I spent two years as Volunteer Services Abroad (VSA) volunteers in Solomon Islands' far eastern Temotu Province ... Being a volunteer was the hardest and the best thing ever, usually at the same time ... Temotu means island or islands ... Remote Tikopia and Anuta each have completely Polynesian populations, with the hereditary chiefs more important than our little provincial government on Nende, two or three days away by sea ... ....

Ink with meaning: What we can learn from the tattoos of our ancestors

Edit CNN 22 Sep 2014
September 22, 2014 -- Updated 1549 GMT (2349 HKT). Tattoos have never been more popular, and part of the appeal lies in the rich variety of body-art traditions of the past ... This native of the Pacific island of Tikopia has rectangular chest tattoos which are thought to have been inspired by flags of passing sailing ships, which were considered symbols of power by indigenous peoples. Dates to 1827 ... This was taken in the early 1900s ... <. 1....

What came first, the chicken or... Columbus? (The University of Aberdeen)

Edit noodls 20 Mar 2014
(Source. The University of Aberdeen) New study challenges claims that Polyensians reached South America before Europeans ... Many of the modern samples used were collected as part of the 'Lapita Voyage', a sailing expedition from the Philippines to the islands of Anuta and Tikopia in West Polynesia made by two replica Polynesian catamarans back in 2009 ... Project leader Professor Alan Cooper, Director of ACAD says ... Notes for Editors ... Tel ... Ref....

Ancient Hawaii Was A Cradle Of Civilization, Says New Book

Edit Huffington Post 17 Dec 2013
He reasons that something similar to what happened on a southwestern Pacific island called Tikopia resulted in "an escalated coercive development" that contributed to the emergence of the Hawaii Island state during 1680-1790. Tikopia, located in the Solomon Islands, is just 2 square miles in size ... Hommon said that the resulting emergency situation forced the people of Tikopia to "harden significantly" in order to survive ... James M ... PLAY ... ....
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