Aloha friends & family,

I wanted to alert you all that the next meeting of Ka `Ohana o Honaunau will be at noon on Sunday, May 23 at Honaunau Bay.  A potluck will follow the meeting so bring something delicious to share

We will be planning the next Malama Honaunau event scheduled in October 2010.  If you are interested in reading the minutes of the meeting, please leave a comment below and I will connect you with Linda Morgan who will provide them for you.

I wanted to let you all know that even if you do not live in Hawaii anymore, but you still love her and want to do your part to conserve and protect her, you can still find ways to help.  I will be looking into ways to make this more accessible to all of you including online petitions, letter writing to public figures and politicians in Hawaii and the U.S., making online donations, adding your media and your voice to the collective voice of those standing firm to take back our home.

For now, what you can do is stay tuned – keep reading these emails and posts as they come, and be ready to take action when the infrastructure is ready for you.  Or better yet, don’t wait – contact me if you have an idea you’d like to share and let’s get started!

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Hey all you folks on the Big Island – check this out! If I was there I would so be at this event…

Fostering Sustainable Behavior

Monday, March 8, 2010

Workshop, 8:30am–3:00pm, UH Manoa Campus Center Ballroom
$15, register by March 5
(due to the overwhelming response we doubled the venue size, but have nearly maxed out again so grab a seat while you can.)

FREE Presentation, 5:30pm–7:30pm, School of Architecture Auditorium
RSVP by March 5

Professor, author, and international expert in community-based social marketing, Dr. DOUG MCKENZIE-MOHR will speak at the University of Hawaii about engaging communities in effective environmental programs, and lead a one-day training workshop.

People know that to protect the environment, we should recycle, use less water, minimize the fuel we consume and conserve in general to reduce our ecological footprint. But actions are not always consistent with what we know is the right thing to do. Dr. McKenzie-Mohr’s presentation and workshop discusses a new approach – community-based social marketing for delivering programs to change people’s behavior as it affects our environment. The workshop features interactive sessions with frequent opportunities for discussion. The FREE presentation provides a broad overview of community-based social marketing.

Click here for more information.

Co-sponsored by:

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Starts Sunday November 9th, 2008 at the Hilton Waikaloa Resort at 7 am – led by Chi Gong Master Sha

Go to www.DrSha.com or Call 1-888-988-7333 to register and join the amazing event.  This is an serendipidous opportunity, don’t miss it if you are in the Kona area!

xoxo Zhen

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Bake sale this Sunday, September 21st at 8AM on Ho’omama Street in Pualani Estates
(just mauka of the park and visible from Queen Ka’ahumanu Hwy).

All proceeds will go to “Obama For America”.  In addition to baked goods, coffee and tea, we will have

Malama Obama

bumper stickers for sale.  The event begins  Feel free to spread the word . We welcome more goodies to sell and customers to purchase them.  Please call or e-mail if you can donate some yummy baked goods to the cause, and/or help with set up or clean up.

http://www.consciousmamas.com/index.php/2008/09/19/bake-sale-this-sunday/

Linda Morgan has sent me this email about the Hawaii Board of Education Candidates:

Hi friends,
I don’t mean to tell you how to vote on Saturday for our Big Island representative on the Board of Education, but I spent almost 3 hours on Monday searching for info on the 4 candidates running for this office, and it’s really hard to find information, so I want to share what I found.

Herb Watanabe has been our rep. for a very long time, and is definitely part of the disfunction of the Board of Ed., so he should only get our votes if we believe we have great schools, and I do not.

Bryant has not filed statements anywhere I could find online, so I assume if he is not competent enough to make his platform available, he cannot adequately represent us.

Walsh made some pretty silly statements about how he would improve education in Hawaii. He seems to be most concerned with “keeping order” in the classroom. The problems go way beyond poor student behavior!

Sanborn will get my vote, although with reservations. He supports decentralization, a good thing in my opinion. He also supports equal funding for charter schools, a pono idea. He sounds qualified and mostly on the right track in his statements. My reservations are about his interest in exploring vouchers.

If you haven’t had time to explore these candidates, I hope this note will help you make your decision.

Aloha,
Linda Morgan

Spread the word, yo!

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BECOME A VOLUNTEER AND/OR DONATE ITEMS NEEDED  – 2 Day Festival to Be Held This Labor Day Weekend in Na ‘alehu

This sounds like fun, S.K.Y!  Won’t some of you come out and represent?  Kau Beach Preservation organization is gearing up for the 2nd Annual Malama Punalu`u Festival to be held this Labor Day Weekend in Na`alehu.  They need you help to make it a success.

The two-day festival is FREE to all and is intended for families and children of all ages. It will celebrate the sacredness of Punalu`u Black Sand Beach and will feature over 100 Hawaiian Cultural Practitioners, Artists and Musicians, including GRAMMY WINNER Ledward Kaapana and MULTI NA HOKU HANOHANO AWARD WINNER, Amy Hanaiali`i Gilliom and performances by the Kane Hula Halau I Ka Wekiu, which won BEST OVERALL HALAU at the Merrie Monarch Festival in 2007.

The festival is made possible through donations of time and funding and last year we had over 200 volunteers who made the event a great success (over 5,000 people attended) and had a great time too!

TO VOLUNTEER please email me (jim@kaupreservation.org) or call me at: 808-929-8334.

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Aloha Beautiful ~SKY~

A Wave of LOVE – http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=78KwUVhoCsM

June 18th…………7pm……Join in with Your Heart, Spirit, Soul and Mind

You all have heard me talk about how we can make a difference for the planet by getting our own hearts and minds right, by recognizing & accepting the amazing power every one of us has within, and by using that power to create more love, joy, awareness, awakening and peace in our own relationships and also in the energy we send forth into the world.

Imagine…all the people…
Living life in peace
You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one

May All Beings Be Happy

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Hey all – this is exciting news – CR has released 3 amazing Cds this spring – check out the attached Press Release and go check out the tunes in the store or at Myspace!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Please forward to whom it may concern (Please forward to Hadley)

Conscious Riddims Records Presents…….. The return of Heavy Weight reggae greats MIDNITE direct from St. Croix, Virgin Islands
Also opening acts from West Coast Reggae and Hip- Hop sensations Ishence, Biblical, and Sista Cat.

Also… Special Guest, Big Island Artists

All Happening Sat. March 8th at the KONA BOWL… Down Town Kailua-Kona! featuring a New and impoved Stage and Dance floor

Tickets are Limited and Now available @
CD Wizard- Hilo
Big Island Surf- Waimea
A’amas Surf- Kona
Kona Bowl- Kona  and
Conscious Riddims- at both Location, up Country and Down Town Ali’i Drive in Kona

This is an all ages event!!! And a concert experience Not to Miss!!!!!!
Doors and Djs start at 7:30 pm

Midnite, Sista Kat, Biblical and Ishence, Saturday march 8th at the Kona Bowl- Down Town KONA
BE THERE!!

For more info. call conscious Riddims 808-322-2628

Breaking Newsflash:  Greensong and Kealakekua Bay B & B Team Up to ize=”4″>Bring Biodiesel to the Big Island Community

Have you ever wondered what you could do to make a real difference to the problems of pollution and war?  I know it feels overwhelming sometimes, and that overwhelm can lead to paralysis or worse yet complacence.  Yet, here I stand now, asking you to re-ignite and re-awaken your passion.  I want you to use that passion as a motivating factor to join us for 2 Eco-Inspirational Events happening in the month of December:

• Movie showing at the Aloha Theatre in Kainaliu – “Revolution Green” (watch the trailer here:  http://www.revolutiongreen.com/trailer.html ) -
  When:  6:30 pm Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
  Where:  Aloha Theatre in Kainaliu
  Cost:  $8 per person at the door ~OR~ FREE with your purchase of a ticket to the Biodiesel Presentation on Saturday, Dec. 15th.
• “Biodiesel for the Big Island – Presentation with Bob & Kelly King”
  Where:  Kealakekua Bay Bed & Breakfast
  When:  Saturday, December 15th, 2007 from 1 pm to 4 pm.
  Cost:  $25/advance ; $30 day of event

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