Local Foods Game Show at the HPA Student Congress on Sustainability
Saturday, June 13th, 2009
Ahhh… trying to correctly warp the brainwaves of our youth. Assisting high school students with awakening the neural pathways to deepen understanding about how we relate to the natural environment. At least thats what I was trying to do in my workshop!
The second HPA Student Congress on Sustainability is underway this weekend at Hawaii Preparatory Academy (HPA) in Waimea. Co-sponsored by The Kohala Center and HPA, the students participate in a wide array of workshops and lectures.
I facilitated a workshop called Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader on Cocoa Cola and Snickers? You can play or download the game that I created below. I played with the sustainability congress high school students, they seemed to have fun and the questions sparked some good conversation. I have three rounds of questions pertaining to what we eat and how that impacts sustainablity.
I was also able to lead the students to apply The Natural Step Framework to food issues we were discussing such as: factory farming of dairy cows and meat cows, mono-cropping of corn for the production of high fructose corn syrup and the import economy of Hawaii.
I participated in The Natural Step workshop here on the Big Island of Hawaii, out in Pahala, Ka’u at the lovely Pahala Plantation House. The County of Hawaii- Hawaii County Resource Center and The Kohala Center partnered to bring Natural Step Senior Trainers Sarah Brooks and Mike Purcell here to “train the trainers” or build capacity, as we say. We now have 30 people in Hawaii in various sectors of the economy who are trained in The Natural Step framework and all fired up about intergrating sustainability principles into strategic planning and decision making. More later on how I am using The Natural Step framework to strengthen green business in Hawaii.
