Sustainable Initiatives by Andrea Dean

Learn permaculture amidst the ultramarine waters and multi-hued food jungles of the Big Island, Hawaii. Taught at a family’s extensive farmstead, Uluwehi Farm, students will gain hands on experience with small animal systems, perennial food gardens, naturalizing plant communities, and agronutrifiers – an integrated approach to wastewater management and food forestry. This experience will offer valuable skills and knowledge from a team of course instructors with broad ranges of experiences in Hawaii and around the world.


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Location: Uluwehi Farm – North Kohala, Big Island, Hawaii
Instructors: Nik Bertulis, Tom Baldwin, Craig Elevitch and other special guests.
Cost: $900
Contact: Tom at UluwehiFarm@gmail.com / 808.889.5035 / PO Box 910, Kapa’au, HI 96755

Is your community interested in local food self-reliance? The North Kohala community came together on August 22nd at the North Kohala Food Forum to discuss how we can supply more of our food from local sources. Check out the North Kohala Food Forum video on You Tube:

Sun rising,moon setting- what a beautiful morning in Hawi.

A Rant/Chant that I wrote using acronyms about one aspect of the global economic situation- the inequity. Performed live for the first time at the Kava Kafe in downtown Hawi, North Kohala, Big Island of Hawaiii.

Bite the bullet Take the Pain Bite the bullet Take the pain

Move over people American Interests are coming through

Because you’re an LDC with no GDP
Aspiring to have new Mickey D’s

The IMF’s got you by the nuts
While the people clamor for the newest laptops

You’re goin’ 24/7 in your factories
Foreign workers slaving for their families
On their backs you crawl to the top of the heap
With your golden parachute you take the leap

Bite the bullet Take the Pain Bite the bullet Take the pain

I don’t like the size of my 401-K
So you people must suffer cultural decay
For a PDA with an LCD and a single soy mocha chi iced tea

Bite the bullet Take the Pain Bite the bullet Take the pain

And the WHO’s not worried about the GMO’s
There’s all in bed with the WTO’s

Trapped in the greed steady on the track
Of an all out full scale nuclear attack

Bite the bullet Take the Pain Bite the bullet Take the pain


Glossary
LDC: Lesser Developed Country
GDP: Gross Domestic Product
IMF: International Monetary Fund
PDA: Personal Desk Assistant
LCD: Liquid crystal display
WHO: World Health Organization
GMO: Genetically Modified Organism
WTO: World trade organization

Trash Bash host Andrea Dean welcomes Green Power Girl to bless the day by reading a poem by Alvita Soleil. The Trash Bash is an event in which people use recycled and founds objects to make haute couture.