From Alana: This week Mauna Kea was chosen as the site for the Thirty Meter Telescope. It was chosen over a location in the Chilean Atacama Desert. In the weeks prior to the decision, some people thought that Mauna Kea might not be chosen because of its significantly higher cost, but was anyone actually surprised [...]
Posts Tagged ‘sacred summit’
Mauna Kea Site Chosen for TMT
Posted in 1, conservation, mauna kea, telescopes, tagged cultural practice, cultural rights, mauna kea, sacred summit on July 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
How many telescopes?
Posted in activism, conservation, land and cultural rights, mauna kea, telescopes, tagged activism, land and cultural rights, legislature, mauna kea, sacred summit on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Alana: Following last night’s passionate hearing regarding the proposed Mauna Kea Thirty-meter telescope, a letter to the editor to was sent to The Star Bulletin strongly opposing the telescope. The letter details the long history of cheating and cutting corners, in terms of environmental and cultural laws, that Mauna Kea developers have had. Testifiers at [...]
Arguments supporting telescope are fallacies
Posted in Haleakala, land and cultural rights, telescopes, tagged cultural practice, cultural rights, Haleakala, land and cultural rights, sacred summit, telescope on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Alana: The following letter to the editor, published in The Maui News newspaper, plainly shows that the logic UH uses to defend its proposed telescope is very flawed. A fallacious argument is made that because Hawaiians revered astronomy, then anything done in the 21st century with respect to astronomy is automatically consistent with Hawaiian spirituality. [...]
Action Alert: Unite to Save the Scared Summits!
Posted in activism, conservation, environmental justice, land and cultural rights, mauna kea, tagged conservation, culture, Haleakala, mauna kea, sacred summit, science, telescope on June 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Plans for major construction in the sensitive ecosystems of our most sacred summits continue to push forward, despite significant opposition from the community. The University of Hawaii has filed two environmental impact statements — one for the world’s largest telescope in the world’s only tropical alpine desert, and another for a duplicative solar telescope in [...]
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 [...]
Kanaka Scholars Stand Up for Mauna Kea
Posted in land and cultural rights, mauna kea, tagged cultural practice, desecration, DLNR, indigenous rights, kanaka maoli, mauna kea, religion, sacred summit, sprirituality, universit of hawaii on February 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Mahalo nui loa to the dozens of Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) scholars who submitted this statement in support of protecting the sacred summit of Mauna Kea. The University of Hawaii is seeking to take over control of the summit from the Department of Land and Natural Resources because they lost the lawsuit in 2007 that [...]
Defend the Sacred Summit of Mauna Kea
Posted in activism, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, mauna kea, tagged cultural practice, management, mauna kea, sacred summit, telescopes, University of Hawaii on February 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Your help is needed right now. Lobbyists for the University of Hawaii, backed by powerful foreign telescope-developers, are pushing hard to take control of Mauna Kea’s public trust resources and override the conservation laws currently barring further development on our sacred summits. If successful, they will use this authority to write their own rules, approve [...]
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