Soil Reef Biochar & The Lexicon of Sustainability What Is Biochar? Quality video production on a topic that we all should learn about. If you know all about biochar you should still watch for the wonderful presentation. Hawaii Biochar, now Pacific Biochar, is...
If you’ve paid much attention to Hawaiian politics lately, you know that the island’s rural communities are in a battle against Big Ag’s experimentation with GMO crops and advanced pesticides. This battle recently caught the attention of pro surfer/filmmaker Cyrus...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Clearing The Buzzword From The Definition Sustainability is one of the big buzzwords of our modern time. Say it loud and proud one time “SUSTAINABILITY”, sure does bring an overwhelming flood of positive thought & feeling; maybe a tinge of sadness due to the state of...
Banzai Pipeline, Oahu, Hawaii (January 27th, 2015): For the 3rd year in a row, Volcom will continue to adhere to the guidelines set forth by Sustainable Surf to ensure that the 2015 Volcom Pipe Pro meets the criteria to be certified as a “Deep Blue Surfing...
