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Building a House with Traditional Knowledge and Skills
00:00 - 05:35 (05:35)
The speaker shares his experience of building a house using traditional materials and knowledge in his village in Papua New Guinea, where he returned to resist against a mining company. He explains how he grew up in a paradise and later left for modern education only to come back and build a traditional house to spend his holidays.
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Human rights defender Manu Penny shares in his TED Talk the importance of looking to Indigenous populations, who have been protecting their lands for tens of thousands of years, for solutions to climate change, emphasizing that sometimes the old ways are still the best.
00:00 - 01:38 (01:38)
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Human rights defender Manu Penny shares in his TED Talk the importance of looking to Indigenous populations, who have been protecting their lands for tens of thousands of years, for solutions to climate change, emphasizing that sometimes the old ways are still the best.
ChapterBuilding a House with Traditional Knowledge and Skills
EpisodeThe sustainable brilliance of Indigenous design | Manu Peni
PodcastTED Talks Daily
The speaker shares how he built a traditional home in his village in Papua New Guinea to preserve the culture and resist against a mining company proposing to extract minerals from the river.
01:38 - 05:35 (03:56)
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The speaker shares how he built a traditional home in his village in Papua New Guinea to preserve the culture and resist against a mining company proposing to extract minerals from the river. He returns to his home every year to stay in the house he built.