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We’ve Moved! 23 Mar 2011 | 03:10 pm
Thanks to the generous support of Hawai’i Community Foundation and our friends at groundwire.org, this blog has a new home at www.KAHEA.org. Mahalo to the awesome folks at wordpress for being our hom...
Urgent: Conservation Rule Changes — Three Loopholes Left to Close — This Week! 26 Jan 2011 | 05:01 pm
We have done an excellent job of standing up for Hawaii’s conservation lands and waters! Last Fall, the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) proposed a suite of regulatory rollbacks in Haw...
Food Security, Sustainable Energy, Native Hawaiian Culture: top priorities of the 2011 Environmental Legislative Network 25 Jan 2011 | 05:01 pm
In the first week of the 2011 Legislative Session, the priorities for achieving a more sustainable future in Hawai‘i are already apparent. Ending Hawai‘i’s over-dependence on imported food and oil, as...
Wai‘anae Represent! Update on LUC hearings 15 Jan 2011 | 04:07 pm
From Marti: After sitting through four days of testimony from Tropic Land, the developer proposing to industrialize farmland at the back of Lualualei Valley, last week the Concerned Elders of Wai‘ana...
Kyo-Ya’s Castle in the Sand 14 Jan 2011 | 03:20 pm
From Marti: KAHEA joined a coalition of environmental, conservation, and ocean user groups in appealing the decision of the Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting to allow Kyo-Ya, the owner o...
Action Alert: Hearings on Army Expansion for Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa 12 Jan 2011 | 02:51 pm
From Marti: Hearings tonight: 1/11 (Tuesday) at Hilo Intermediate 6-9pm 1/12 (Wednesday) at Waimea Elementary and Intermediate 5:30-9pm This week, the U.S. Army is holding two hearings on its plan...
Kilakila `O Haleakala Contests the Approval of Solar Telescope on Haleakala 12 Jan 2011 | 02:48 pm
From our legal-intern Bianca Isaki: Aloha kakou, The Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation of Hawaiÿi (NHLC) has filed a legal action on behalf of Kilakila `O Haleakalä, a Native Hawaiian community orga...
Partying like it’s 2010. 24 Dec 2010 | 03:40 pm
Mahalo to all who came out to celebrate 2010 with us at the Mahalo and Holomua Fundraiser for KAHEA at thirtyninehotel in Honolulu! See more pics at: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=263987&id=...
Are we willing to put conservation before development? 5 Dec 2010 | 12:22 am
Testimony from Jim Albertini in opposition to the TMT. Mahalo Uncle Jim for coming to the meeting and sharing your mana‘o! Malu `Aina Center For Non-violent Education & Action P.O. Box AB Kurtistow...
Mauna Kea TMT hearing update 4 Dec 2010 | 03:55 pm
From Marti: We are getting lots of reports from people who attended the public hearing in Hilo on whether to grant a construction permit for the TMT on Mauna Kea. From what we heard: 51 people test...
