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Michelle Gamage is a Vancouver-based journalist with an environmental focus who regularly reports on climate for The Tyee. You can find her on Twitter @Michelle Gamage. SHARES The Banking on a Better Future movement launched April 1.
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When 18-year-old climate activist Naisha Khan wants to start a conversation about how banking fuels climate change, she asks someone how they think their bank makes money to pay them interest each month.
Indigenous Model Breaking Barriers and Fighting Climate Change
At only 18 years old, model Quannah Chasinghorse is breaking barriers for Indigenous girls by providing representation in an industry that has long shutout Indigenous people.
The Alaska-based model proudly displays her traditional tattoos, rocks authentic Indigenous style, and has an array of impressive activism work under her belt. Chasinghorse is Hän Gwich’in and Oglala Lakota and is still relatively new to modeling when she signed to IMG in December.
One of her first big modeling jobs was in a Calvin Klein campaign in October last year, and since then, she has been cast in shoots for “V” and “Thunder Voice Hat Co.,” an Indigenous-owned hat company.
Alaska teen brings Indigenous excellence to magazine cover May 5th 10:20 pm |
Samantha Davenport, Anchorage Daily News
A familiar face is on the cover of Vogue Mexico s May issue.
In a sheer yellow Valentino dress with dusty pink flowers is 18-year-old Quannah Chasinghorse, from the Native Village of Eagle, her gaze trained on the camera as she stands on a beach two hours south of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
Chasinghorse - who is Han Gwich in and Oglala Lakota - highlighted her activism and the need for accurate representation in modeling in the cover story, encompassed in a 20-page spread. Becoming a model was always my dream, since I was little, since I was three or four years old, Chasinghorse told Vogue Mexico. I think it s so beautiful
The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending April 23rd indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US rose by 15 billion cubic feet to 1,898 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 302 billion cubic feet, or 13.7% below the 2,200 billion cubic feet that were in storage on April 23rd of last year, and 40 billion cubic feet, or 2.1% below the five-year average of 1,938 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been in storage as of the 23rd of April in recent years..the 15 billion cubic feet that were added to US natural gas storage this week was more than the average forecast of a 9 billion cubic foot addition from an S&P Global Platts survey of analysts, but measured well below the average addition of 67 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have typically been injected into natural gas storage during the same week over the past 5 years, as well as well below the 66 billion cubic feet added to natur