More vaka posts: The Canoes are Coming: Te Mana o Te Moana, They’re Here! and What’s the Big Deal about Voyaging Canoes? It’s exactly what the old Polynesians did when they sailed out into the Pacific to find new land.” “It’s all about taking the knowledge and wisdom of the past and using it in the present to make a stronger future. Leslie Lang, my blog editor, went for a spin around the bay on one, and we wrote about how the ancient ways are again showing us the way.
In June, seven Polynesian-style voyaging waka (canoes), representing different Pacific Islands, arrived in Hilo Bay after a two-month voyage from Aotearoa (New Zealand). Of course I mentioned a few times about how “ If the farmers make money, farmers will farm.” That link is to one of those times. I spoke to the Kamehameha Schools First Nation Fellows about food sustainability, showed them the farm and gave them some of the best advice I could think of. I wrote about biofuels, and the very real problems with them. Also on biofuels and feedstock. I wrote a post about the National Research Council calling biofuels costly and their impacts questionable. It was fun remembering the old days and the old ways of my Kamahele ‘ohana in Maku‘u. People seemed to enjoy the conclusion of my Maku‘u Series.
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We participated in Alan Wong’s Farmers Series dinner for a second time, and really enjoyed it. June and I enjoyed meeting and talking with visionary Earl Bakken at his Kiloho Bay home, and learning about his manifesto. It’s time-lapse photography where you can watch the stars migrate across the night sky. I posted a link to the cloudcam, a time-lapse video taken by the Canada France Hawaii telescope’s cloud cam at night, which I thought was really neat. And about even more Big Island support for geothermal. There were more Hawaiian perspectives in supporting geothermal, this time in Hilo. I attended a geothermal energy forum in Pahoa, with Hawaiian leaders speaking and every seat taken. The Geothermal Working Group Interim Report – which provided lawmakers with an evaluation of using the hot water reservoir in certain locations of Big Island to provide local and renewable energy for electricity and transportation – was distributed to state legislators. I also wrote about it being a matter of leadership, about mopping the deck of the Titanic, and about how the momentum toward geothermal has shifted. Also about a Democratic Party Resolution supporting geothermal for baseload electrical power. There was a lot of conversation, of course, about geothermal. What a year it’s been! Here are some 2011 highlights:
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