Sustainable Community Food & Energy Systems Intensive (Spring18)

The University of Hawaiʻi Office of Sustainability, in partnership with the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources at UH-Manoa, Altruvistas, Conscious Concepts and The GREEN Program offer a short-term, experiential course intensive upcoming this March 3-11, 2018.

Earn up to 3 college credits in only 9 days by studying with a cohort of students passionately interested in sustainability topics related to food and energy.

Kamaʻaina Scholarships:
(Applications close Feb 12, 2018)
Apply for scholarship to attend at https://thegreenprogram.com/scholarship/app

The Course:
Sustainable Food & Energy Systems
Tropical Plant & Soil Sciences (TPSS) 491 Experimental Topics

In class lectures include but are not limited to:
1) Introduction to Sustainable Food Systems & Energy in Hawaii,
2) Theory and Practice of Sustainable Agriculture,
3) Politics of Food in Hawaii, on a Global Context,
4) Food Sovereignty, Nutrition & Human Well Being: Reconnecting Food, Nature & Community
(*Please note that classes are subject to be updated)

Included in program: 1 transferable credit
Students have an option to opt in for additional credits, up to 2 or 3 credits total for this course. University of Hawaii – Mānoa's cost is an additional $453 per credit. For students who are interested, you will have the option to opt in for additional credit when securing your spot in your student portal. Your professor will also issue additional coursework for students who are opting in for more credit.

Meet Your Professor:
Noa Lincoln
Noa Kekuewa Lincoln is of native Hawaiian, German, and Japanese decent, born in Kealakekua on Hawai‘i Island. The Hawaiian cultural epistemology, which places environment at the core of human well-being, has been the kuamo‘o (lit. backbone) of his personal and professional accomplishments. Noa received his BS in Environmental Engineering from Yale University, and his PhD in Environment and Resources from Stanford University, where his work focused on traditional agricultural development pathways and management strategies. His postdoctoral work examined traditional values and practices of ecosystems for food in Aotearoa.

Noa has worked in marine and terrestrial ecosystem restoration and conservation around the Pacific, and has coupled these efforts with cultural and environmental education and community engagement. He has conducted analyses of land asset allocation for several organizations, bringing together concepts of cultural values, ecosystem services, and economics.

For the past many years he has worked on traditional Hawaiian ethnobotany and agriculture. He was the Ethnobotany Educator for the Bishop Museum’s Amy B.H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden and has implemented projects facilitated through a variety of partnerships with community organizations.

He has worked to revitalize traditional dryland agricultural systems in Hawai‘i, learning from the past while simultaneously feeding and educating the present. Noa is recognized as an emerging expert in Hawaiian crops and cropping systems. He has received fellowships from the Switzer Foundation, the National Science foundation, the Ecological Society of America, the First Nations Futures Program, and the Mellon Foundation to conduct this work.

His primary interests are in combining traditional and modern knowledge of land management to evaluate social utility, rather than economic, contributions. He is currently a research fellow with Ngai Tahu Research Centre at the University of Canterbury and an Assistant Professor at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa with a focus on Indigenous Crops and Cropping Systems.

You can learn more about Noa at: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~nlincoln/