I spoke to Suzanne Case about The Nature Conservancy’s work with native forests and coral reefs as well as their focus on climate change and how it is all connected. Walking their talk, The Nature Conservancy, as a “green business” has just remodeled an historic building on Oahu according to LEED standards. The building was the first existing building in Hawaii to be remodeled and receive LEED certification.
I am currently working my way through the book The Artists Way by Julia Cameron. One of the exercises is to take yourself on an artists date- by yourself. Today I took myself to the Hilton Waikoloa to steam, sauna and check out the Buddha collection.
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“The North Kohala community will produce 50% of the food it consumes.” This is a stated goal in the North Kohala Community Development Plan. The North Kohala community has many existing and emerging commercial and community projects that could lead to increased food self-sufficiency, the goal of the Food Forum is to bring everyone together for information sharing. The sharing of information is the first step in building collaborative partnerships towards a stated community goal.
There will be invited participants in the forum and the public will also be welcome, with provision made for including public participation in discussion. Forum participants have been identified from the following sectors in North Kohala:
Commercial Food Growers
Commercial Food Production / Value Added Products
Food Distribution / Retail to Consumer Sales / Stores-Markets-CSA’s-Outlets
Food Distribution- Wholesale to Retail
Infrastructure (Water / Land / Energy / Processing Facilities/ Certified Kitchens)
The members of Food Forum steering committee are Bob Martin, Forrest Arnold, Shannon Casey, Karen Rosen, Guy Kaulukukui, and Andrea Dean.
The goals of the North Kohala Food Forum are to:
• Share information by providing a forum for communication.
• Allow synergistic partnerships to form.
• Identify the key barriers to local food production and working together.
• Glean insight as to what the public is thinking about local food self-sufficiency.
• Begin to get a “lay of the land” with regards to who is doing what and why.
• Begin to track progress towards food self-sufficiency.
North Kohala Food Forum, Saturday, August 22, 2009, 9 – 4:30, Intergenerational Center. Save the date, ticket info coming soon- $10 for a locally grown lunch.
