From Alana: Too often loko i’a are talked about as things of the past, and somewhat obsolete. They are spoken of like memorials of a time past, a time when Hawaiians could essentially farm huge amounts of fish without even needing to feed them. But those days are over, right? No, they don’t have to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cultural practice’
We should take pride in our fishponds
Posted in 1, Aquaculture, conservation, fisheries, food sovereignty, island sustainability, tagged cultural practice, cultural rights, culture, fisheries on August 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cultural Practioners Respond to TMT
Posted in conservation, land and cultural rights, tagged conservation, cultural practice, cultural rights, mauna kea on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Kealoha Pisciotta, President of Mauna Kea Anaina Hou and one of KAHEA’s Board of Directors: As a former telescope system specialist on Mauna Kea, I value both Polynesian and modern astronomy. Unfortunately, the West Hawaii Today editorial endorsing the Thirty Meter Telescope Board’s selection of Mauna Kea over Chile contained several inaccuracies—and one insult [...]
HVCA Aquaculture Meeting
Posted in Aquaculture, events, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, ocean protection, tagged Aquaculture, cultural practice, fisheries, gmo, ocean protection, sustainability on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Alana: Entitled Aquaculture in Hawaii: Economic Advantage or Source of Sustainability, the Hawaii Venture Capitalist Association’s recent meeting addressed the benefits of many types of aquaculture in Hawaii. I think the presentation did a good job of explaining how aquaculture could be in Hawaii, in its most ideal form. One of the first things [...]
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 »
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Hawaii Blue Line Project Rally at Stadium Park
Posted in climate change, tagged activism, climate, cultural practice on February 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
from Marion Ano, KAHEA 2008 Graduate Intern: The afternoon sun cast a warm glow throughout Stadium Park last week Wednesday on the corner of Isenberg and King. I attended the “Blue Line Project” Demonstration to build awareness of climate change, global warming, and to break the silence about sea level rise. Each participant contributed their [...]
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