Browsing Archive: April, 2010

Chair Report - Your Investment in Hawai`i's Future

Posted by Mark Glick on Monday, April 5, 2010, In : Chair Report 

2010 marks the fifth decade in which the Hawai’i Chapter of the Sierra Club has been protecting the environment.  With our network of volunteers and members, we work on two broad fronts led by an extremely capable and energetic Executive Committee.  First and foremost, we vigorously pursue a statewide environmental education agenda with our hikes and service projects.  Many of you actively participate in our weekly local outings that are always free and open to the public.  We also continue...


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Planting Native - `Ulei

Posted by Rick Barboza on Monday, April 5, 2010, In : Planting Native 


Planting Native

by Rick Barboza




‘Ulei

Osteomeles anthylidifolia


Indigenous: All of Hawai’i except Ni’ihau and Kaho’olawe.

Description:  Amazing shrubs with dark, glossy, pinnate leaves and very fragrant white flower clusters.  These are one of my most favorite smelling native flowers.  The flowers develop into white fleshy, fruit that ripen purple and contain up to four seeds inside.  Generally this is a low crawling plant usually under four feet tall but some specimens on Maui and Hawai...


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Protecting Pu`u Wa`awa`a

Posted by Janice Marsters on Monday, April 5, 2010, In : Outings 

The Hawai’i Service Trip Program (HSTP) conducted a service trip with 12 adventurous volunteers to Pu‘u Wa‘awa‘a on the island of Hawai‘i from January 2-9, 2010.  The work was conducted in coordination with DLNR Staff at Pu‘u Wa‘awa‘a, and was HSTP’s fourth trip to the preserve.  Thanks to DLNR for allowing us to spend time in this lovely place. 

Dry and mesic forests in the area of Pu‘u Wa‘awa‘a were once considered the most diverse forests in all the Hawaiian Islands....


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Making Clean Energy Accessible

Posted by Robert D. Harris on Monday, April 5, 2010, In : Legislative 

“A coup.”  That’s how one participant described the Sierra Club’s recent forum focusing on “Property Assessed Clean Energy” (PACE) measure.  Over 150 people from around the State gathered to hear from Cisco DeVries, pioneer of the PACE concept, and others discuss what Harvard Business Review has described as “one of the breakthrough ideas of 2010.”  

So what was the hullabaloo about?  Let’s start with a simple question:  why don’t more people install renewable energy system...


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Produce or Pavement?

Posted by Anthony Aalto & Robert D. Harris on Monday, April 5, 2010, In : Agriculture 

Preserving Prime Farmland so Future Generations Can Enjoy a Sustainable Hawai‘i

Some of the best and most productive farmland left on O`ahu will soon be history if we give David Murdock, owner of Castle & Cooke, permission to build 5,000 houses on Koa Ridge.  Together with projects already approved in Central O`ahu -Waiawa by Gentry and Royal Kunia- it's a repeat of a failed 20th century policy: urban sprawl.

Ours would hardly be the first civilization to destroy its best farmland en route to...


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