ATTENTION TEACHERS & ADMINISTRATORS! Now Accepting KEAP Applications!

A Kokua Earth Action Project (KEAP) is an environmental service learning initiative aimed at taking care of our islands and encouraging long-lasting change in your classrooms, schools or community. If your class or school is interested in starting a project to create positive change for our environment this upcoming school year, please submit what you’re doing by completing Kokua Earth Action Proposal application. You may already have an environmental project planned for this upcoming school year, so we invite you to participate. We want to recognize your work and share it with other schools.

To apply, you may download the KEAP application online. For more information please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Environmental Field Trip & Mini-Grants for Educators

Our 2010-2011 Environmental Field Trip & Mini-Grant applications are now available at kokuahawaiifoundation.org/schoolprograms.

Please fill out your grant applications and submit now.

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until March 1, 2011. We look forward to assisting your school in furthering your environmental education goals.

For more information about our grant opportunities, please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Live Aloha Day 2010

Come join us on Saturday, June 19th at Waikiki Elementary School for Kanu Hawaii’s Live Aloha Day, where we will be working on two major projects: completing the plant nursery and building an aquaponics system. Other gardening jobs will include weeding, raking, mulching, and watering in one of our many gardens and fruit tree orchards. Waikiki Elementary School students will conduct a garden tour for interested volunteers, and provide information about organic gardening and seed starting. They will also hold a plant sale and Student Farmer’s Market.

The Waikiki Elementary School garden program is a 3200-square foot “Food Farm” that includes organic heirloom tomatoes, fruit trees, ‘outdoor-classroom’ plant nursery, and Kokua Hawaii Foundation ‘AINA In Schools teaching gardens. Everything was built by community volunteers with donations and grants.

By growing food directly on campus, students learn first-hand about the knowledge and hard work required to produce what we eat.

Please bring any tools you may have, a water bottle, sunscreen, and pack a dish for three to share for a potluck lunch. We will provide cold water for refill.

        Click here to sign up!

June Highlights

6/7-6/9
Ma’o Farms Hands Turned to the Soil 2010 Conference - ‘Aina Ho’ala
Space limited. Register now!

6/19 Sat.
Live Aloha Day 2010 KanuHawaii.org

6/26 Sat. 10am-3pm
Guava Shop/KHF Clothes Swap
For more information, please call 808-637-9670

6/26 Sat. 5pm- 10:30pm Haleiwa Surf Center Benefit Concert & Auction at Waimea Valley. Email Kerry Terukina for more info.

Big Mahalo to Kokua Festival Artists, Attendees, Partners, and Volunteers!

       
The 2010 Kokua Festival was a huge success! Mahalo to all of our dedicated volunteers, partners, and crew who worked tirelessly all weekend. Also, mahalo to our amazing line-up: Jack Johnson, Ziggy Marley, Taj Mahal and the Hula Blues Band, Jake Shimabukuro and Anuhea and the Green. You guys ROCK!
           
Kokua Village was bustling with learning and sharing of green initiatives and products. There was record breaking interest and participation in the Kokua Festival Greening Measures! Over 8,000 plastic water bottles were diverted from the waste stream by fans who used the Menehune Water Refill station, 300 cars were taken off the road by fans who rode their bikes and parked at the Kokua Festival Bike Valet, and over 1,500 fans made Earth Day Resolutions at the Kanu Hawaii Solar Powered Photo Booths.

Passport Winners
1,900 Kokua fans turned in their Festival Passports and completed a minimum of three greening actions, which means over 5,700 collective actions were taken! A few lucky winners walked away with great prizes including pit seats, a Pono Ko’olau Ukulele signed by Kokua Festival artists, a Globe bicycle and an Everpaddle stand up paddle.
       

Got your 2010 Kokua Festival Shirt?
What’s left of the Eco-Friendly 2010 Kokua Festival Merchandise is now available for sale on the Kokua Hawai’i Foundation online store. So get your exclusive Kokua Festival water bottle, reusable tote bag, beach towel or t-shirt now!
       
Mahalo nui loa for another amazing year!