President Obama will propose vast expansion of Pacific Ocean marine sanctuary. The proposal could create the world's largest marine sanctuary and double the area of ocean globally that is fully protected.
Read the entire article about the Pacific Ocean Marine Sanctuary at the Washington Post,
Hawai'i was selected to host the World Conservation Congress is 2016! We are honored to have the opportunity to welcome the world to Hawai'i to showcase U.S. leadership on conservation, sustainability and climate change.
We are the point between two eternities. We are honoring our ancestors via preparing the way for our future generations
-- MA`O Farm Manager Kaui Sana
MA'O Organic Farms seeks to restore the ancestral practice of Malama 'Aina in a modern context via providing college internships to youth from the Waianae community as sweat equity for running a profitable organic farm.
HONOLULU – Gov. Neil Abercrombie today signed House Bill 1714 (Act 83), a measure that establishes an interagency climate adaptation committee under the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) to develop a sea-level rise vulnerability and adaptation report addressing statewide impacts to 2050.
Article via Sierra Club Hawaii Mālama Newsletter
As a sign of the importance of self-sufficiency to our islands, in 2013 Governor Abercrombie created the position of State Sustainability Coordinator and appointed Jacqueline Kozak Thiel, an environmentalist with more than ten years’ experience working with communities in Hawai‘i, to the post. Thiel came to Maui right out of college to work as an Americorps intern at Haleakala and Kalaupapa National Parks. The assignment was followed by a four-year stint on the Kaua‘i Invasive Species Committee, after which Thiel became the statewide Communications Coordinator for the Hawai‘i Invasive Species Council. She also earned an M.A. in urban and regional planning from UHM.