While the world searches for solutions in carbon credits, experimental energy and piling on pledges, beneath all this noise a quieter truth has always existed. The answers to our planet’s issues already live within the wisdom of those who never forgot how to live in reciprocal harmony with the Earth and those who call her home.
Many Indigenous peoples across the world have been practicing sustainability since long before the word existed. Many of our elders’ teachings are rooted not in ownership, but in kinship. Not in dominance, but in care. For us in Samoa, this balance is guided by the sacred understanding of vā. What to us is the “space between.”
