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Malie Organics
 Mālama Hawai‘i welcomes Malie Organics as its most recent partner. Malie Organics produces all natural luxury spa products on the island of Kaua‘i, using ingredients derived from natural, organic and wild-crafted plants that are grown and harvested in a sustainable manner. Each Malie Organics product carries the exotic scent and subtle power of our Hawaiian flora to offer an aromatherapy experience unlike any other in the world.
Malie Organics is run by husband and wife team, Shaun and Dana Roberts, who moved to the lush Garden Island after building successful sales and marketing careers on the mainland. Their passion for outdoor adventure and the radiant beauty of Kaua‘i captured their imagination. Shaun and Dana fell in love with their island paradise and soon felt a profound need to give back. They were moved to create a line of distinctly Hawaiian products that would also employ the talented local craftspeople and herbalists. The couple studied the local flora and incorporated the hydrosol distillation process in the development of their products. Malie Organics was born.
Malie Organics is also dedicated to Mālama Hawai‘i and donates 1% of profits to specific programs within the Mālama Hawai‘i organization. This is one way Malie Organics is helping to protect our fragile and valuable resources.
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From the Honolulu
Advertiser, June 12, 2007
Island Pacific Academy’s
fourth-graders had an unorthodox plan — donate their recycling
profits to Malama Popoki, a nonprofit that traps and neuters feral
cats. The students’ generosity earned them the top spot
in Disney Adventures magazine’s nationwide youth volunteerism
contest, which awarded $5,000 to IPA and $5,000 to charities of
the students’ choice.
Read
the full article
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50
Simple Things You Can Do to Save Hawai‘i
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Dr. Gail Grabowsky, director of Chaminade University's Environmental Studies Program, has written a new version of the old classic, "50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save Hawai‘i." Known as “Dr. Gail” on campus, Grabowsky lives and breathes the stuff she writes about. For years, she has involved her students in hands-on projects in the community that directly benefit the environment. And as a well-trained marine biologist and avid swimmer, paddler, and diver, 50 tips are simply not enough for her. The book also includes Web sites for more information and several chapters on specific environmental issues. After reading this book, even the most die-hard environmentalist will have learned something new. 50 Simple Things is published by Bess Press and is available at bookstores for $16.95. |
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Sustainability
& Service 101
Kaimuki High
School, Kamehameha Schools, Hawaiian Electric Company, Seabury
Hall, Hakipu‘u Learning Center, and Kokua Hawai‘i Foundation.
These are just a few of the organizations that participated in
a recent community event at Punahou School's Luke Center for Public
Service. The event was called Sustainability and Service 101 and
it focused on linking environmental service with K-12 classroom
learning. 58 teachers, students, administrators and community
representatives attended this professional development institute.
Nationally recognized expert Cathryn Berger Kaye shared her thoughts
on service learning, or educating the hearts of students. She
focused on helping teachers connect their curriculum with sustainability
issues such as waste, transportation, food, water and energy.
Institute participants then broke out into small groups and had
the opportunity to develop curriculum that teaches students how
to better protect our planet’s resources. In keeping with
the workshop’s sustainability theme, participants ate dinner
with biodegradable forks and plates made out of bagasse, a biodegradable,
compostable byproduct of sugar cane production. In furthering
Punahou’s goal of being a private school serving a public
purpose, Luke Center will continue to partner with other schools
and community organizations. For more information on the Luke
Center and service learning curriculum samples, please visit www.punahou.edu/lukecenter.
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Teresa
Lee, grades 4-6 teacher at Montessori Community School
in Honolulu, loves to see the excitement of her students when
they learn through their hands. She uses the Navigating Change
curriculum, which is “right up her alley” and feeds
her students’ interest in animals and concern about pollution.
Teresa and co-teacher Kathy Shinkawa, involve their students their
parents in beach clean-ups and recycling, to instill life-long
values of caring for the environment. Recently, her students raised
$300 from a recycling project and chose to donate these funds
to Malama Maunalua, to help protect the coral reefs of Maunalua
Bay. They have also donated money to Hurricane Katrina victims.
Mahalo to Teresa, Kathy, and the students and families of Montessori
Community School for exemplifying the value of malama.
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Mālama
Maunalua
 Mālama
Maunalua is a new community-based alliance dedicated to creating
a more culturally and ecologically healthy Maunalua region in
Southeast O'ahu. The group shares a vision where the fish are
once again plentiful, pollution and sedimentation are mitigated,
and where people, community groups, businesses and agencies take
kuleana in caring for and sustainably managing the bay.
In 2006, Mālama
Maunalua completed a series of three planning workshops sponsored
by The Nature Conservancy and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration) called Efroymson Conservation Action Planning”
workshops for Pacific Islands. Other teams included members from
Kosrae, Palau, and Palmyra. The workshops allowed for science-based
systematic thinking and planning for highest priority conservation
actions via participation by all members and resource experts
from NOAA and other marine scientists. Mālama Maunalua has
begun implementing the actions planned from the workshop.
A new initiative
of Mālama Maunalua in line with the Conservation Action Plan
is the Maunalua Makai Watch program. In May and June 2007, about
30 volunteers from the community were given introductory training
in Maunalua geography, history, marine resources, human use monitoring,
and regulatory observation and compliance. ( View
Photos )
Mālama
Maunalua is supported by Malama Hawai'i and Community Links Hawai‘i.
For more information about this initiative, please contact Alyssa
Miller at: greenwaveproductions@gmail.com
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Navigating
Change
 Navigating
Change was envisioned by the Polynesian Voyaging Society to motivate
people to better care for their land and sea looking at the Northwestern
Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) as a catalyst for change to occur in the
main Hawaiian Islands. The NWHI have been referred to as our "kupuna
islands" because they are much older, have stories to share
and can show us the marine and land wildlife species which no
longer exists in main Hawaiian Islands. At its core is Hōkūle‘a,
which sailed to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands during May and
June of 2004 to bring the northern end of our archipelago into
our living room and our classrooms. The Navigating Change vision
is carried forth by an evolving Navigating Change Educational
Partnership continually seeking to develop methods of exploring
the ways change can occur as related to our relationship with
the natural and cultural resources within our own ahupua‘a.
The partnership includes:
Polynesian Voyaging Society
Bishop Museum
Harold K. Castle Foundation
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve
State of Hawai‘i Department of Natural Resources/Division of Aquatic
Resources
State of Hawai‘i Department of Education
University of Hawai‘i.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
As of March 2005 the partnership has developed a 4th/5th grade
Teacher's Guide to Navigating Change complete with video modules
and a poster size map. 1800 students in 80 classrooms were connected
to the NWHI via satellite question and answer communication onboard
Hōkūle‘a during May and June of 2004. A Navigating
Change exhibit built by Bishop Museum at the Hawai‘i Marine Maritime
Museum engages students as wildlife biologists as they explore
an atoll in the NWHI and experience what it is like to voyage
in the wake of their ancestors. Due to the recent research and
educational trips to the NWHI via modern vessel three websites
now contain a multitude of information related to the Navigating
Change vision at www.navigatingchange.org;
www.pvs-hawaii.org; and
www.hawaiianatolls.org.
For more information contact Kathryn Wilder, Navigating Change
Coordinator, at wilderwaters@earthlink.net
or Ann Bell with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at 808-792-9532.
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