In this episode Tahmina Martelly of World Relief explains the connections between social and environmental justice, and how they play out in her work with immigrants and refugees. As a community developer, she prioritizes the voices of the poor and marginalized, and collaborates with them to create solutions to food deserts, the absence of greenspaces, and the challenges of being landless. The community garden that they have built together has become a center for multicultural community, where people celebrate ethnic, cultural, economic, and religious diversity. Tahmina also addresses resistance among some religious folks to matters of global warming and climate change, and challenges us to think about the sort of grace it takes to model a different approach to creation care.
Notes
Tahmina Martelly - Director of Resiliency & Empowerment programs at World Relief: https://worldreliefseattle.org/leadership-team
Community garden website: https://worldreliefseattle.org/garden
Seattle Globalist article on the opening of the community garden; https://www.seattleglobalist.com/2018/04/16/refugees-and-immigrants-grow-homeland-foods-at-kent-community-garden/73140
Latin phrase, Nihil de nobis, sine nobis: Nothing about us without us: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_About_Us_Without_Us
Article that exemplifies Nihil de nobis, sine nobis: https://www.citylab.com/environment/2019/01/detroit-tree-planting-programs-white-environmentalism-research/579937/
Hillside Church in Kent: http://hillsidechurchkent.com/
Definitions
raingarden: https://www.groundwater.org/action/home/raingardens.html or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_garden
bioswale: http://nrcsolutions.org/bioswales/ or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioswale
food forest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_gardening
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