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News, updates, finds, stories, and tidbits from staff and community members at KAHEA. Got something to share? Email us at: kahea-alliance@hawaii.rr.com.
How is fishing like aquaculture? Trick question. It’s not.
Does an industrial fish farm count as fishing? Apparently, NOAA says “yes.” To permit an experimental open ocean fish farm operation, NOAA is looking to grant a corporation (Kona Blue Water Farms on Hawai`i Island) a fishing permit and call its fish farm cages “a new, unlisted gear type.”
Legalize Pa'i 'Ai
Today, a new generation of cultural practitioners, farmers and entrepreneurs are working to change laws forbidding the sale of pai ‘ai--laws which say this sacred food is "unsafe for public consumption." Read an update on these efforts from Aunty Penny Levin.
Wai'anae Plan at the City Planning Commission
Mahalo nui to all those who came out to support a sustainable future for Wai'anae! Couldn't make it? Mai hopohopo (don't worry) there will be another public hearing in April, stay tuned for details!
From One State Worker to Another
Back in January, Governor Aberbrombie wrote a mass email to state workers, entitled "From One State Worker to Another." Lori Nordlum received this email as a legal secretary in the Attorney General's office. She wrote him back.
Music Video: "As One"
Check out this amazing music video--the music was written, composed, performed, filmed and edited by amazing and talented youth of the Kea'au Youth Business Center on Moku o Keawe (Big Island), Hawai'i!
8 Acres? 18 Stories? TMT? A'ole.
The TMT Corporation and the University of Hawai'i Board of Regents are proposing a massive new telescope for Mauna Kea, the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). Learn more about this proposed development.
Dear Mr. Governor...
On February 16, the Mauna Kea Hui delivered a letter to Governor Abercrombie, inviting him to join us in the spirit of aloha `āina.
