Saving lives by saving trees | Kinari Webb | TEDxRainier

Working and thinking expansively and beyond the medical care she practices, Kinari Webb achieves greater impact and results than seem possible.
Dr. Kinari Webb founded Health In Harmony as a response to the devastation she saw in the rainforests of Borneo. Health In Harmony’s mission is to recognize the inextricable link between human and environmental health and focus on providing healthcare as an incentive to protect natural resources.
After completing her medical training, she returned and spent a year traveling around the country looking for ways to help reduce the damage to the rainforest and to the villagers who lived within it. Today, the clinic she founded provides affordable healthcare for the communities of Gunung Palung, and has not just improved the lives of residents, but also introduced alternative income sources and dramatically reduced illegal logging of the rainforest.
Dr. Webb was honored with an Ashoka Social Entrepreneur Fellowship in 2014 and the Rainier Arnhold Fellow through the Mulago Foundation in the same year.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

[@JanMOBrien]

HIH is a ray of hope in this era. I am happy to be a monthly donor - an ironwood.

[@thoriq__]

I know the organization after watching this video.. Big thanks 🙏 Devastation environmental quite real here. My town are ~70 km south from Gunung Palung National Park. Almost every year we will face thick smog when the forest fire start to spread out..

[@janetbrown7360]

Bravo! This immensely kind and creative process could be expanded to many, many places.

[@chikuramusic]

Dr. Webb’s amazing memoir “Guardian of the Trees” brought me here…moving and what a human she is!

[@willstokes123]

This is an amazing and inspiring idea. Well done

[@desimilaridade]

Listening is a key. Wonderful talk.

[@philipeast5096]

Impressive talk from a doer!

[@ReallyHappened]

Great talk of hope for all! Thank you!

[@theresiakushardini3102]

Radical listening

[@positivegradient]

What an incredible talk!

[@WaterfallEnthusiast43]

Cool!

[@sajonarkaur1727]

Beautiful 😍

[@bobolark9933]

There protest for saving tree what do they use paper/cardboard quite weird

[@urielm925]

My cousins snap brought me here

[@andrewe2]

Is it my imagination or is she mispronouncing "Orangutan?" Is it acceptable to say "Orangutang" now?

[@firefalcoln]

I’ve donated to this cause. But please, next time they have a speaking opportunity, have someone else deliver the speech. Their overall priorities, process, the results are very encouraging. And this speech is well written. But her delivery is sooooooooo slow and lacking in energy or verity in the delivery.

[@minonarambewela7573]

You really don't care about the message, do you?

[@phongphong4640]

I enjoy her soothing and calm voice.