Sustainable Hawaii

After living here awhile you will come to realize that people who have lived on this island for several generations have had to dig themselves out of a lot of challenges. Because of that they have built Ohana. They know how to share. They can take a bath in a stream. they can get a cow butchered by a friend. They know who fishes. They know who hunts pig. They have raised chickens. They know where to forage for fruit in the gulches. They know how to cook for five hundred people, while the music plays.

You get yourself ready. Don't wory because they are not at the meetings.

2012
in sight

We are closer to paradise
than you know.

Here are ten things that if the world
only knew … would change everything

This is the bridge to the new dawn
and it is already mostly built and you can
help focus on bringing it home

First, if everyone knew the world already is, for all practical purposes, a global civilization that is mostly at peace and united in its cultural aspirations so we don’t have to worry when many of the old governing institutions come down under the weight of their own incompetence.

Wake up North Kohala HOME FOOD storage and PRODUCTION IS CRITICAL

As an elder said at the recent food workshop…. “When the ships don’t come … have 72 days of food stored well in the house or do it right with a great garden but do one or the other and do it now !!!!!! the next year or two is very scary at the global level.”

Our Sustainable Kohala Action Team just spent a few hours with Mayor Billy Kenoi of the Big Island. Beside being a regular guy, the newly elected Mayor is really up to speed on the challenges of becoming more sustainable as an island. One of his strongest comments was, "If sustainability is going to happen anywhere on this island, North Kohala is the place where it can work." Billy strongly supported the series of talk-story sessions our group is having with community leaders to build a unified voice for positive change.

As it says in the great Hopi prophecy. Do you know where your water is?
We can perish without water before we perish without food. Dehydration is a very quick way to go. Being smart about water is a wise choice anywhere.

There are fourteen homesteads along Kaauhuhu road on either side of the transfer station and running about a half a mile down from Kinnersley road.

This adventurous group has collected info about the food, water, transport, and power holdings of each homestead and created a meeting area for emergencies. In this way they can collect immediately make plans and support people in need.

They have a half dozen pick-up trucks, two back-ho's, a water purifier, some hunting equipment, fishing equipment, and some interesting combinations of garden foods in case of emergency.

A recent guest lecture in Hawi sponsored by Sustainable Kohala Ohana
presented an island pioneer in food security Craig Elevitch.

Craig Elevitch has been in the food game quite a while. He like others have had the complete look at what we have now in the food pipe line in Hawaii. And what we have in that pipe line is for the most part all we have. It didn’t used to be that way so we know we have to turn the whole game around because we live in times where the pipeline could easily get shut off. OIL EMBARGO! 90% plus of OUR food comes from OFF these islands!

OHANA SUSTAINABILITY

This is a copy of a deep readiness
List used by a friend for the people
Who live near him.

1. Water is the first priority during an emergency. Please list on a separate sheet of paper … the possible ways you can think of to catch, save, and share water and use it for all our normal functions.

2. What kinds of power have you got (ie candles, kindling, and firewood) and what kind (gasoline, natural gas, a generator) do you think we need?

3. Name the kinds of food you have discovered on this land or in a nearby gulch? Do you harvest it?

ALOHA,

We are discovering that WHOPPER LIKE stories can be told about the value of things by wall street, banksters, and real estate brokers, and now the insurance business. Eventually the real value of their offerings was just based on a buy and trade much like feeding frenzy. They have all gone bust …and some people really got stuck at the end of the deal line.