We’re liking this thought-proving post from journalist Anne Minard, on the “next great telescope race”–Day 14 of her “100 Days of Science.” She asks some great questions about the fundamental purpose of the two U.S. proposals for “next generation” giant land-based telescopes being proposed for construction within the next 10 years. Do we really need [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Haleakala’
Collaborate Much?
Posted in conservation, Haleakala, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, mauna kea, telescopes, tagged astronomy, Haleakala, imperialsim, mauna kea, telescopes on August 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Exemptions Gone Wild
Posted in activism, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, Northwest Hawaiian Islands, ocean protection, telescopes, tagged Haleakala, HEPA, land and cultural rights, mauna kea, NWHI, process on August 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Generally, under today’s environmental laws, certain kinds of projects have to do an environmental review (Like an EIS). Other kinds of projects can be exempted. The BP oil spill at Deepwater Horizon has been a sobering reminder of why these kinds of environmental reviews and exemptions are so critical. (Can you believe THIS was exempted [...]
Manufacturing Consent
Posted in activism, Haleakala, mauna kea, tagged activism, Haleakala, mauna kea, sacred summits on August 3, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The UH Board of Regents made big “TAH-DAH!” over approving their giant Thirty Meter Telescope project for Mauna Kea this summer. Plenty press releases, plenty press. KAHEA staff tend to kind of shrug over this kind of “approval”, but after hearing so many comments and questions from all of you, we decided we should address [...]
Action Alert: Haleakala Solar Telescope
Posted in activism, Haleakala, tagged action alert, activism, astronomy, Haleakala on August 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On August 26, the BLNR will hear public testimony on the 14-story telescope proposed for Haleakala. We really need community members to show up early, sign up to speak, and give testimony on this giant telescope proposal. You can read the flyer here. From Kilakila Haleakala: All studies done for the proposed project indicate that [...]
HaleakalaAHHHHH! WASSSPS!
Posted in conservation, environmental justice, Haleakala, island sustainability, tagged Haleakala, invasive, wasp, yellowjacket on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Melissa: Haleakala National Park is being invaded by Yellowjacket wasps as you are reading this blog. Invading wasps in Haleakala National Park, which usually make nests the size of a football, have grown nests “the size of a ’57 Buick,” according to a new study. Research just published in the Proceedings of the National [...]
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 [...]
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