Kani ka uwalo, mele ‘ai pohaku! Hosted by KAHEA, Na Kahu o Haloa and the Hawaiian Caucus The Ku‘i Kalo record was set this past Tuesday at the Haloa Jam Taro Festival on O‘ahu: – 350 lbs. of Hawaiian Kalo- no panic, all organic! – 300 People to Ku‘i i ke Kalo! – 100 Pohaku [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Pictures and Articles from Taro Festival
Posted in activism, events, food sovereignty, gmo, tagged gmo, kalo, taro on March 26, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Legislative Update
Posted in 1, activism, conservation, gmo, land and cultural rights, legislature, mauna kea, tagged activism, beach access, bills, gmo, legislation, legislature, mauna kea, shoreline, taro, update on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Marti: This is just a quick run down on the status of some of the local legislation we are watching this session. Tomorrow is second lateral – the day when surviving bills have to be delivered to their final committee. The next major deadline is April 9th. GOOD BILLS SB 1088 – Seeks to [...]
We Couldn’t Agree More
Posted in activism, food sovereignty, gmo, tagged activism, gmo, preemption on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Christine Sheppard, with the Kona Coffee Farmers Association: Our Hawaii State Legislature operates out of Oahu, and this makes sense. But what does not make sense is the way in which they operate, which essentially disenfranchises all of the outer islands.Bills are scheduled with little or no notice, and written testimony is required to [...]
Taken for a Ride
Posted in ocean protection, tagged military, superferry on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The excellent Chris Pala has a great investigative piece in today’s Honolulu Weekly on the “why” of Superferry: “Now that the Hawai‘i Supreme Court has freed them of any obligation to serve the Islands, which has proved to be a money-losing operation, are they going to fetch a better price elsewhere? If they do, was [...]
Saving the Palila
Posted in conservation, mauna kea, tagged endangered speies, mauna kea, palila on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To all our friends who have been working so hard on protections for the endangered Palila bird on the Big Island, thanks for continuing to push for the survival of this species! http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20090324/BREAKING01/90324021/-1/RSS01?source=rss_breaking A court filing yesterday accused the state Department of Land and Natural Resources of failing to fully comply with court orders to [...]
Haloa Jam
Posted in activism, food sovereignty, gmo on March 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
From Thelma at the Hawaii House Blog from today’s taro festival, put on by the Hawaiian Caucus, KAHEA, and Na Kahu O Haloa: While watching Monica guide Kat through the traditional process of making poi, and answer questions on the Hawaiian culture, I was reminded of the old ways of teaching and spreading knowledge and [...]
As the Ocean Thrives, So Do We
Posted in activism, ocean protection, tagged maui, nearshore, ocean protection on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From the amazing Hannah Bernard, an invitation to a Maui community event to launch actions that help bring back the health of nearshore waters around Maui. More Fish in the Sea, A Community Conversation: E ola ke kai, e ola kakou (As the ocean thrives, so do we) WHAT: We all want more fish in [...]
Beach Access Bill Needs Your Help!
Posted in activism, events, land and cultural rights, ocean protection, tagged beach access, citizen suit, public access, shoreline on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Marti: Great news! S.B. 1088 has a hearing before Chairman Ken Ito (D-Kaneohe) and the House Water, Land, and Ocean Committee. This hearing may be the biggest hurdle this important bill faces. So, if you care about improving enforcement of your right to access the beach and mauka recreational areas throughout Hawaii nei, then [...]
Maui County Council Opposes Preemption
Posted in food sovereignty, gmo, tagged gmo, preemption, taro on March 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Maui County just unanimously opposed HB1226 GMO preemption bill now at the state legislature. This bill proposes to forfeit to the federal government the authority of all state and county agencies to regulate and oversee activities related to genetic modification. This means counties will lose their power to regulate any other GMO-activities that occur in [...]
Omission.
Posted in land and cultural rights, mauna kea, tagged comprehensive management plan, mauna kea on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Update on press coverage of the Land Board hearings on the Mauna Kea Management Plan: The Advertiser reprinted Jason Armstrong’s article from yesterday’s HTH today, but omitted Barry Taniguchi’s quote “endorsing” the UH Management Plan: “We don’t have anything now, and anything is better than nothing, I think,” he said. Hmmm.
Anything is better than nothing?
Posted in conservation, land and cultural rights, mauna kea, tagged conservation, mauna kea, summit on March 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
From today’s HTH, on UH’s proposed management plan for Mauna Kea: http://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/articles/2009/03/19/local_news/local02.txt “We don’t have anything now, and anything is better than nothing, I think,” he said. Could UH’s Barry Taniguchi have given a weaker endorsement of the UH Mauna Kea “management” plan he himself has been lobbying in favoring of? Forgive us if we [...]
Exempt from that, too.
Posted in ocean protection on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Navy will not be fined for 7,000 gallons of sewage discharged during Port Royal grounding in Februrary. And yep, that’s the 7,000 gallons the Navy initally “forgot” to report to the State. From the AP: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HI_SHIP_GROUNDING_HIOL-?SITE=PAGRE&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Worst Idea of 2009
Posted in land and cultural rights, ocean protection, tagged access, beach access, shoreline protection on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’d like to nominate the bill proposing the repeal most programs and protections for beaches and coastlines in Hawaii (SB 1318 SD 1) as officially one of the WORST ideas of 2009. From Elizabeth Reilly of the Hawaii Kai Neighborhood Board: SB 1318 SD1 relating to planning and economic development titled “Coastal Zone Management; State [...]
Molokai Plant added to Endangered Species List Today
Posted in conservation, tagged endangered species, mint on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.fws.gov/news/newsreleases/showNews.cfm?newsId=1681C409-BE1D-830E-087C0B90C82C782C Rare Molokai mint plant was officially listed today! From Jan TenBruggencate at his Raising Islands blog: This little plant isn’t the kind of mint you put in a julep, and it doesn’t have a minty smell, but it’s a relative of the fragrant mints. It’s a vine with lots of branches—kind of sprawling and [...]
Superferry to cease operations Thursday
Posted in ocean protection, tagged ocean protections, superferry on March 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From the Honolulu Advertiser: The Hawaii Superferry said it will cease operations on Thursday following a ruling today by the Hawaii Supreme Court that went against the inter-island ferry service. http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20090316/BREAKING01/90316039/1352
Superferry by any other name…
Posted in island sustainability, ocean protection, tagged ocean protection, superferry on March 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Write up from Joan Conrow on the Hawaii Supreme Court Superferry decision, which found Act 2 exempting the Hawaii Superferry from EIS law to be unconstitutional: http://kauaieclectic.blogspot.com/2009/03/musings-supreme-court-slap-down.html My inbox, meanwhile, has been popping with jubilant messages about the ruling, but folks aren’t happy just because they won. They also see it as a vindication of [...]
The Going Rate
Posted in land and cultural rights, mauna kea, tagged cultural rights, mauna kea on March 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
UH lobbyists like to say that “viewing time” on Mauna Kea isn’t a cash transaction and development of Mauna Kea isn’t about about money… but Yale is paying $12 million for 15 nights/year of viewing time on one Mauna Kea telescope for the next ten years. That’s $12 million for 150 nights = $80,000 per [...]
Will Proposed Army Studies on DU Tell Us What We Need to Know?
Posted in land and cultural rights, military toxics, tagged contamination, du, military, toxics on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Excerpt from Letter to the U.S. Army from Michael Reimer in regards to Depleted Uranium (DU) studies at Schofield Barracks, on Oahu, and Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA), on Hawaii: Colonel Howard Killian, Deputy Director U.S. Army Installation Management Command Pacific Region 132 Yamanaga Street Fort Shafter, Hawaii 96858-5520 Dear Colonel Killian: I have had an [...]
How to Keep up at the Leg
Posted in activism, tagged bills, legislature on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Rob Parsons of the Maui Times “Rob Report” has an excellent piece with a few easy tips on how to keep up with what’s going down at the Hawaii State Legislature, and a nice rundown of some bills you ought to be following. http://www.mauitime.com/Articles-i-2009-03-12-69021.113117_Call_to_Action.html Mahalo to Bonnie for the tip!
Red-Rover, Red-Rover, Cross on Over
Posted in activism, environmental justice, gmo, island sustainability, mauna kea, tagged bills, legislation, legislature on March 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Today is Cross-Over Day at the State Capitol, the half-way point in the legislative process… and the day the overwhelming majority of bills are declared officially dead (until they can be resurrected next session). Here is a run-down of the bills KAHEA is following that are still alive this session. Click on the bill numbers [...]
Sea Level Rise May Flood Out 1-in-10 People on Planet?
Posted in climate change, tagged climate change, sea level rise on March 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Think there are implications for Hawaii, folks? About 600 million people, or nearly 10 percent of the world’s population, live in low-lying areas at risk of flooding as sea levels rise due to climate change, according to research presented today at the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change in Copenhagen. This means that if emissions [...]
R.I.P. SB 502
Posted in activism, land and cultural rights, mauna kea, tagged alpine, conservation, cultural rights, mauna kea, sacred, summit on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
3 down, 1 to go! Thanks to the public’s vigilant support and participation SB 502 is officially dead!! Yay! SB 502 was one of four bills proposing to transfer management of one of the Pacific’s most unique and sacred summits, Mauna Kea, over to its primary developer–the University of Hawaii. The University has facilitated forty [...]
Novel Approach to Water Rights
Posted in activism, land and cultural rights, tagged water rights on March 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Came to our attention via Island Breath Blog: A small town in Maine has voted to pass a Rights-Based ordnance, giving rights to their ecosystem and denying the right of “personhood” to corporations–an attempt to prevent multi-national bottled water corporation Nestle Waters from bottling more of the town’s groundwater. Nestle is the world’s largest food [...]
10-to-1 opposed and they still passed it
Posted in activism, land and cultural rights, mauna kea, tagged astronomy, conservation district, hawaii, legislation, management, mauna kea, sacred summit, University of Hawaii on March 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
From Marti: The bill to transfer management of the sacred summit of Mauna Kea to the University of Hawaii passed the state’s House Finance Committee on Tuesday. By the Committee’s own count, 900 people submitted testimony in opposition to the 10 or so in support. This number is not counting the testimony submitted by a [...]
“When you plant kalo, everything else falls into place.”
Posted in food sovereignty, gmo on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From TheLEDGE, supporting passage of Taro Protection Bill (HB1663), banning the genetic modification of taro in Hawaii. “And so I come here to plea that you would give Haloa our older brother, the protection that he needs.” You can support by telling decision-makers that GMO-taro is wrong for Hawaii… Genetic engineering of taro into a [...]
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