Videos & Podcasts
Video: "Vanuatu: Together We Protect Kastom" (October 2023). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z45GzsGRXY0
Documentary Film: “Plants mo Pipol blong Vanuatu: Preserving Vanuatu’s Rich Heritage of Plant Diversity and Knowledge”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3ii4qihIww
Webinar: “Plants, sun, and people in Vanuatu”. Presented as part of the Daylight Awareness Week 2023 (November 13, 2023). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFmvlGTtuM8&t=34s
Podcast:“A Gardening Calendar For the Era of Climate Change”. Featured on the Growing Greener podcastwith Thomas Christopher (November 15, 2023): https://www.thomaschristophergardens.com/podcasts/a-gardening-calendar-for-the-era-of-climate-change
Video: "NYBG Updates from Vanuatu: Plants and People of Vanuatu" (February 2021): https://vimeo.com/511692033/7168f7f2ef
Video: "NYBG Updates from Vanuatu: Plants and People of Vanuatu" (May 2020): https://www.nybg.org/planttalk/from-the-field-plants-and-people-of-vanuatu/
Podcast:“Call these plants by their names”. Featured on ScienceLine podcast with Chloe Williams (July 9, 2018: https://scienceline.org/2018/07/call-these-plants-by-their-names/
Blogs & News
News: "‘Weather magic’ and wind lore: the push to preserve ancient knowledge in Vanuatu", by Jon Letman. The Guardian (September 6, 2024): https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/07/weather-magic-and-wind-lore-the-push-to-preserve-ancient-knowledge-in-vanuatu
Blog: “Conserving Indigenous Solutions to Climate Change in Southern Vanuatu.” NYBG Plant Talk (December 5, 2023): https://www.nybg.org/planttalk/conserving-indigenous-solutions-to-climate-change-in-southern-vanuatu/
Blog: “Using Plants as Calendars.” NYBG Plant Talk (October 25, 2023): https://www.nybg.org/planttalk/using-plants-as-calendars/
Blog: “How Plants Are Used in Centuries-old ‘Weather Magic’ Practices on Islands in the Southwestern Pacific Nation of Vanuatu.” NYBG Plant Talk (May 11, 2023): https://www.nybg.org/planttalk/how-plants-are-used-in-centuries-old-weather-magic-practices-on-islands-in-the-southwestern-pacific-nation-of-vanuatu/
News: “The house that can withstand a cyclone: how traditional dwellings are making a comeback in Vanuatu”, by Jon Letman. The Guardian (August 8, 2021): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/09/the-house-that-can-withstand-a-cyclone-how-traditional-dwellings-are-making-a-comeback-in-vanuatu
News: “Documentary highlights importance of traditional plant-based knowledge”. Vanuatu Daily Post (February 25, 2021): https://www.dailypost.vu/news/documentary-highlights-importance-of-traditional-plant-based-knowledge/article_0492fb68-76f1-11eb-9623-d3e13ee2c3c7.html
News: “Vanuatu needs a separate National Herbarium facility”. Vanuatu Daily Post (February 24, 2021): https://www.dailypost.vu/news/vanuatu-needs-a-separate-national-herbarium-facility/article_9901697c-7626-11eb-8cb4-7b0f07e23abb.html
Blog: “Vanuatu Celebrates its 40th Year of Independence and Learns a Lot about Botany”. NYBG Plant Talk (September 4, 2020): https://www.nybg.org/planttalk/vanuatu-celebrates-its-40th-year-of-independence-and-learns-a-lot-about-botany/
Blog: “Continuing NYBG’s Botanical Fieldwork in the Age of COVID-19: The Long Journey of Herbarium Specimens from Vanuatu to the Bronx. NYBG Plant Talk (July 30, 2020): https://www.nybg.org/planttalk/continuing-nybgs-botanical-fieldwork-in-the-age-of-covid-19-the-long-journey-of-herbarium-specimens-from-vanuatu-to-the-bronx/
Blog: “Daylight Studies—an Emerging Discipline”. NYBG Plant Talk (April 15, 2020): https://www.nybg.org/planttalk/daylight-studies-an-emerging-discipline/
Blog: “Traditional Shelters, Cyclone Houses, and the Temptations of Modern Construction”. NYBG Plant Talk (September 18, 2018): https://www.nybg.org/blogs/science-talk/2018/09/traditional-shelters-cyclone-houses-and-the-temptations-of-modern-construction/
Blog: “Plants as Calendars”. NYBG Plant Talk (March 13, 2018): https://www.nybg.org/blogs/science-talk/2018/03/plants-as-calendars/
Blog: “‘Message Plants’ in the Communications Age”. NYBG Plant Talk (November 22, 2017): https://www.nybg.org/blogs/science-talk/2017/11/message-plants-communications-age/
News: “Linguist K. David Harrison to Document Plants, Languages in Vanuatu”. Swarthmore News & Events (November 7, 2016): https://www.swarthmore.edu/news-events/linguist-k-david-harrison-to-document-plants-languages-vanuatu
Blog: “The Remarkable Plants of a Pacific Island Nation”. NYBG Plant Talk (February 26, 2016): https://www.nybg.org/blogs/science-talk/2016/02/the-remarkable-plants-of-a-pacific-island-nation/
Blog: “As Negotiators Debate Climate Change in Paris, Some Nations Already Feel the Impacts of a Warming World”. NYBG Plant Talk (December 4, 2015): https://www.nybg.org/blogs/science-talk/2015/12/as-negotiators-debate-climate-change-in-paris-some-nations-already-feel-the-impacts-of-a-warming-world/
Blog: “A Botany Lesson in Vanuatu”. NYBG Plant Talk (December 11, 2014): https://www.nybg.org/blogs/science-talk/2014/12/from-the-field-a-botany-lesson-in-vanuatu/