Museums aspire to provide tangible links to the past, through displays of artifacts, fineries, and curiosities from past decades, centuries, and millennia. Art seeks to capture essences of the natural world, spiced with human imagination, to evoke and inspire emotion. Combining the two may provide a unique and special vehicle, a time machine of sorts, for delivering … [Read more...] about Nā Aloha `Āina: Powerful portraits bring culture and history to life at Hale Hō`ike`ike
The Green Issue 2019: Leaders share their messages to Mother Earth
Spring is a time of flowering, renewal, hope, and great promise, as the longer, warmer days arise out of the dark and cold of winter. Since 1970, Earth Day has taken this time to pause to rally for the environment, to love and honor our planet, and to imagine what it may take to reverse the degradation wrought upon our once-pristine ecosystems. When Wisconsin Senator Gaylord … [Read more...] about The Green Issue 2019: Leaders share their messages to Mother Earth
Water Is a Verb: Maui Tomorrow hosts award-winning author of “Cows Save the Planet,” Judith Schwartz
We live in an unimaginable era of climate roulette. Scientific predictions of Earth-changing impacts – severe storms, sea level rise, glacial melting, drought-induced wildfires, and more – are already tangible in our lifetimes, and loom ominously for tomorrow’s generations. A number of well-read authors have helped sound the clarion regarding human impacts on the planet, from … [Read more...] about Water Is a Verb: Maui Tomorrow hosts award-winning author of “Cows Save the Planet,” Judith Schwartz
Steven Apfelbaum: Renaissance Man of Restoration Ecology – In the age of climate change, the acclaimed ecologist will speak about Maui’s “100-year opportunity”
Steven Apfelbaum may be one of the most unpretentious, down-to-earth people you will meet. This preeminent restoration ecologist, with more than 9,000 projects throughout North America and the globe over his 40-year career, is as unassuming as his curriculum vitae is long (44-pages, no less). It is fair to describe him as a 21st-century Renaissance man, a true pioneer in … [Read more...] about Steven Apfelbaum: Renaissance Man of Restoration Ecology – In the age of climate change, the acclaimed ecologist will speak about Maui’s “100-year opportunity”
Maui County Says No to the Foam: What Maui’s Styrofoam ban means, how we got here, and what’s next
Back in May 2017, a small, dedicated group witnessed a momentous event in Maui County Council chambers: A unanimous vote to restrict the use of polystyrene foam food service wares. The ordinance was years in the making, and marks the second time Maui would take the lead in regulating the proliferation of a single-item plastic commodity. Back in 2010, Maui was the first county … [Read more...] about Maui County Says No to the Foam: What Maui’s Styrofoam ban means, how we got here, and what’s next