From Alana: From “Hawai’i has a lot to gain from open ocean aquaculture” in today’s Honolulu Advertiser: Just as we need to be off imported oil, we need to be off imported seafood. This opportunity can be an economic engine for Hawai’i, and hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake.Let’s not stand in our [...]
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Hawaii’s aqua culture
Posted in activism, Aquaculture, conservation, fisheries, food sovereignty, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, ocean protection, tagged activism, conservation, cultural rights, endangered species, fisheries, hawaii, island sustainability, sustainability on August 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Hawaii’s Renewable Portfolio Standards: Aggressive But in Need of Qualification
Posted in 1, activism, climate change, conservation, environmental justice, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, legislature, Northwest Hawaiian Islands, ocean protection, other, tagged activism, biofuels, cap and trade, climate change, climate justice, conservation, energy, energy independence, energy law, environmental justice, fossil fuels, global warming, hawaii, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, legislature, management, northwestern hawaiian islands, ocean, oceans, renewable energy, renewable portfolio standards, sustainability on July 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
From: Andrea Just last month, Act 155 was passed in the Hawaii Legislature, amending Hawaii’s renewable energy law. One of the highlights of this amendment was the strengthening of Hawaii’s Renewable Portfolio Standards (often abbreviated as RPS). These standards are binding for electric utility companies, which must satisfy the specified percentage of their net electricity [...]
Draft Science Plan Public Hearing: Grandfathering-in Permitted Activities
Posted in activism, conservation, Hawaiian Monk Seal, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, Northwest Hawaiian Islands, ocean protection, other, tagged activism, beaches, conservation, coral, cultural rights, endangered species, environmental justice, hawaii, hearing, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, malama, management, marine protected area, monk seals, northwestern hawaiian islands, NWHI, ocean, ocean protection, oceans, shoreline, superferry, sustainability, whales on July 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From: Andrea Last night at the public hearing on the Draft Science Plan for Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, held at the monument office in Hawaii Kai, a troubling consequence of the lack of environmental review was elucidated. One of the Science Plan authors stated that research activities that have already been permitted are assumed to [...]
Natural Rights: Not Ours, But Nature’s
Posted in activism, climate change, conservation, environmental justice, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, legislature, Northwest Hawaiian Islands, ocean protection, other, tagged activism, conservation, corporations as persons, cultural rights, endangered species, environmental justice, ethics, extinction, hawaii, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, legal rights, legislature, monk seals, natural rights, nature, ocean protection, sustainability on July 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
From: Andrea Most people are familiar with our inalienable natural rights, as John Locke summed up as life, liberty, and property. But what about nature’s right to exist, flourish, and naturally evolve? These are the inalienable legal rights that the town of Shapleigh, Maine, voted to grant to nature last February. Now, in the town [...]
32 Tons of Marine Litter Removed: Sadly, the Tip of the Iceberg
Posted in activism, conservation, environmental justice, Hawaiian Monk Seal, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, Northwest Hawaiian Islands, ocean protection, tagged access, activism, beach access, beaches, conservation, cultural rights, development, environmental justice, hawaii, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, marine protected area, marine reserve, monk seals, northwestern hawaiian islands, NWHI, ocean, ocean protection, oceans, shoreline, sustainability on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From: Andrea The U.S. Coast Guard removed 32 tons of debris from the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands over the Fourth of July weekend. Much thanks to the Coast Guard for ameliorating the health of our oceans! See the Honolulu Advertiser article: http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20090713/BREAKING01/307130004/U.S.%20Coast%20Guard%20removes%2032%20tons%20of%20debris%20from%20Northwestern%20Hawaiian%20Islands?GID=e/Si+j1sOYkNlMXAMxQScaqw1wgB5/Nurtn+5iNvNh8%3D While I am glad that efforts to clean up marine litter are taking place, [...]
Murky Water Surrounds Fishery Management Council’s Records
Posted in conservation, fisheries, legislature, tagged fisheries, hawaii on July 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Alana: Last week in the Honolulu Advertiser there was an article about the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council, which is supposed to “prevent overfishing, minimize bycatch, and protect fish stocks and habitat” in federal waters in the Pacific. The council was found to be less than accessible in terms of releasing public documents. At a [...]
HB 1522: Kahana Residents Still Fighting to Retain Their Homes
Posted in activism, conservation, environmental justice, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, legislature, other, tagged activism, conservation, environmental justice, hawaii, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, legislature, sustainability on July 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From: Andrea Kahana residents have not ceased their tireless fight to stay in their homes. Since their homeland was condemned as a state park in the ’60s, the people of Kahana have had to battle the State of Hawaii to stay in their homes. And, now, after the State found illegal the law passed in [...]
Holding the Navy Accountable on Two Fronts
Posted in conservation, environmental justice, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, military toxics, ocean protection, tagged contamination, coral, damage, EPA, grounding, hawaii, Lualualei, navy, PCBs, reef, USS Port Royal on April 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
From Marti: The Navy has been on the hot seat lately for the damage it has caused in Hawaii nei. In central and western Oahu, the Environmental Protection Agency and the state got a commitment from the Navy to clean up any remaining contamination at two Superfund sites – one in Lualualei near the naval [...]
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 [...]
Living Language
Posted in land and cultural rights, tagged 'olelo, culture, hawaii, langauge, perpetuate on March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
No ke aha e kupaianaha ai ka ‘olelo Hawai’i ma Hawai’i nei? Why is the Hawaiian languauge a strange language in Hawai’i nei? Each place in our islands has a Hawaiian name and is associated with mo’olelo or an ancient Hawaiian story. Still, the Hawaiian language with its history, insights, and cultural significance remains silenced [...]
our world gets bigger.
Posted in activism, land and cultural rights, tagged activism, beaches, hawaii, land and cultural rights, locked gates, ocean, public, shoreline on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
UPDATE from Rich on 2/29: Got word yesterday that the House Finance Committee passed HB839 with amendments! From email from Rich ma over at Beach Access Hawai’i in Kailua: I was going to use a clever subject line for this email — something like, “Show me the money!” because that’s what it comes down to [...]
Rally at the State Capitol – TROLLEY RIDE UPDATE 1
Posted in land and cultural rights, tagged activism, beaches, hawaii on February 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hawai’i’s Statewide Beach Access Rally day began this morning with wet weather islands-wide! The rain gently blessed our Beach Access Trolley this morning at 10:30 as it departed to raise awareness about the epidemic loss of public access routes to the beach all around the islands. More than 40 people joined us for a rally [...]
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