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“Everybody paddle the canoes together; bail and paddle, paddle and bail, and the shore will be reached.
E lauhoe mai na wa’a; i ke ka, i ka hoe; i ka hoe, i ke ka; pae aku i ka ‘aina.”
― Hawaiian proverb
Eco Quotes – Rachel Carson Silent Spring
The most alarming of all man’s assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must...
Federal grant supports Hawaii Farm to School programs | Hawaii 24/7
The Kohala Center recently received a federal Farm to School grant to support the increase of locally produced foods for Hawaii schools and to increase support for school gardens and farms statewide through curriculum development that connects core standards with...
Training the Next Generation of Permaculture Teachers | Permaculture Magazine
Rosemary Morrow has been teaching permaculture for over 40 years. Now she wants to create a free space, removing financial hurdles, so any permaculture practitioner can learn to teach permaculture. Over the last few years, permaculture teacher Rosemary Morrow has been...
Eco Quotes
Mankind’s irrational destruction of nature bothers me a lot. Mankind is slowly committing suicide, or not so slowly. Each day it accelerates, producing all kinds of wastes—corporal, industrial, atomic—poisoning the earth, the sea and the air. He destroys the very...
Permaculture Film | North Hawaii News
FILM ON PERMACULTURE AND AQUAPONICS: 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 2 at North Kohala Public Library. This hour-long film about Olomana Gardens reveals the beauty and inner workings of a modern, sustainable food growing system that can be applied to small-scale farms, as...
“Eco-Warrior” Vandana Shiva, at $40,000 a Speech, Rejoins Hawaii Anti-GMO Crusade, But Truth Is the Victim | Jon Entine
She's baaack, and it's not good news for science literacy, farmers and food-minded Hawaiians. I'm referring to Vandana Shiva, the Indian anti-GMO crusader who kicked off a five-day blitz through Hawaii with a talk-and-music fest at the Capitol Building on Wednesday....