International Tropical Islands Water Conference, April 12, 2021. Plenary: Mo‘olelo – A Traditional History, A Current Sensibility (Hannah Kihalani Springer)
Noelani Goodyear Kaopua is a Kanaka ‘Ōiwi who was born and raised in Hawai’i. She earned her BA in Political Science and Hawaiian Studies from UH Mānoa before completing her PhD at the University of California, Santa Cruz in History of Consciousness. As an associate professor of Indigenous and Hawaiian politics, Noelani teaches courses in Hawai’i politics, Indigenous politics, and decolonial futures. She also currently serves as the undergraduate chair of the Political Science department.
International Tropical Islands Water Conference, April 15, 2021. Plenary Panel: Water and Environmental Justice: Pathways Towards Equitable Water Future Shilpa Alva (Surge for Water), Mere Jane Sawailu (RISE Project, Suva, Fiji), Sean Connely (founding board member of Protect Our Ala Wai Watersheds)SHOW LESS
Kamuela Enos is currently the Director of Social Enterprise at MA`O Organic Farms, where he works with low income communities to combat major health issues and promote sustainable agriculture. He worked previously at Empower Oahu on economic and community development initiatives and with the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, where he served as a research assistant in the Office of Youth Services Strategic Planning Process. He is a Director of the Hawaii Rural Development Council. Mr. Enos holds a B.A in Hawaiian Studies and a M.A. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Hawai`i at Manoa.
Malia Akutagawa is an Assistant Professor of Law with both the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s William S. Richardson School of Law and Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge. Malia is a 1997 alumnus of the William S. Richardson School of Law, having earned a Juris Doctor and Environmental Law Certificate. She was admitted into the Hawaiʻi State Bar Association in 1998. Her focal studies included Hawaiian and water rights, environmental regulations, land use, administrative and international law. She is part of Hui ʻĀina Momona, a consortium of scholars throughout the university community charged with addressing compelling issues of indigenous Hawaiian knowledge and practices, including the legal regime and Native Hawaiian rights associated with mālama ʻāina, and with focus on cross-disciplinary solutions to natural and cultural resource management, sustainability, and food security.
Kālepa Baybayan, previously Navigator-in-Residence, is the Associate Director of ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center, Hilo. An active participant in the voyaging renaissance since 1975, Baybayan has served as captain and navigator aboard the Hawaiian deep-sea voyaging canoes Hōkūle’a, Hawai’iloa, and Hōkūalaka’i and sailed on all major voyages of the Hōkūle’a throughout Polynesia, Micronesia, the west coast of North America, and Japan. His most recent voyage as captain and navigator aboard Hōkūle’a took him and a Hawaiian speaking crew from Okinawa to Yamaguchi prefecture.
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Biologist and cultural practitioner Sam Ohu Gon III reveals the true Hawaii, a place much more than beaches and mai tais. In these islands, there is a message for the world.
Wai’anae Intermediate School’s 8th grade Earth and Space Science teacher, Brigitte Russo, works with her colleagues and community partners from the Malama Learning Center and Hawai’i Department of Land and Natural Resources to give her students experiences in science in the Hawaiian environment. In this segment, her students visit the Ka’ala Kipuka to learn about and care for native dryland forest plants. They also go to Ka’ena Point to protect rare native coastal plants. They are bridging Western and Hawaiian science through hands-on learning. This segment was produced by Outside Hawai’i for the Malama Learning Center with support from the Kamehameha Schools Wai’anae Region.
Wai’anae Intermediate School’s 8th grade Earth and Space Science teacher, Kanani Blue, and STEM Learning Center Coach, Kekaha Spencer, work with community partners from the Malama Learning Center and Hawai’i Department of Land and Natural Resources to give their students experiences in science in the Hawaiian environment. In this segment, their students visit a coastal restoration site at Ka’ena Point and the dryland forest of Ka’ala Kipuka. They are bridging western science and indigenous knowledge through hands-on, ‘aina and place-based learning. This segment was produced by Outside Hawai’i for the Malama Learning Center with support from the Kamehameha Schools Wai’anae Region.
In the red dirt of Wakea, School of Earth Sciences researchers are digging up clues to Hawaii’s lost agricultural traditions. The practices, which supported a large population on the island before the arrival of Europeans wiped them out, could serve as a model for sustainable farming today.