By Kyle Ellison Never before has there been such excitement over gathering bags of trash in the rain. On an otherwise cold, dreary, and drizzly Saturday morning—somewhat of an island anomaly for the middle of July – a sizzling fervor of ocean activism heated up Lahaina Harbor as ocean-minded volunteers schlepped around scuba tanks, dive [...]
By David Johnston A group of people came together in the spring of 2009 to discuss the idea of ecovillage zoning. We created a powerpoint and presented it to members of the Maui County planning department. Our websites are http://mauisustainablecommunities.wikispaces.com/ and http://ecovillagingmaui.grouply.com “In the short answer it’s sustainability. Ecovillages, intentional communities require less consumption than [...]
By Ken Pinsky “Marijuana use that isn’t abuse” A decade ago the Hawai‘i State Legislature passed the Compassionate Use Law – the country’s first legislatively installed medical marijuana bill. Most other states with medical marijuana laws passed them by citizen initiative. Hawai‘i was different. Our legislature, bless their compassionate hearts at the time, saw the [...]
The nursing students at UH Maui College. are holding a fundraiser at Flatbread in Pa‘ia on Tuesday August 3 from 5-10 PM. The funds will go toward their clinical trip to Kapiolani children’s hospital on O‘ahu. They will be spending one week in December completing their clinical work there. The fundraiser will feature raffle tickets [...]
Ha‘iku Grocery moved to the old Ha‘iku cannery in 1995 as it was first being renovated into the Ha‘iku Marketplace. The store was down at the street end of the building in those days, and they moved to their present location in 2000. Now they’ve expanded again, almost doubling to 5,800 square feet of retail [...]
Aloha Editor Ken, Congratulations on your excellent first issue of Moon over Haleakala. It is GREAT to have you back. I especially enjoyed Mark Sheehan’s column, your editorials and the consistent theme throughout the issue supporting alternative energy, home employment, sustainability and Maui agriculture. Please urge your readers to vote in the primary election. Mike [...]
In the Hawai‘i Coffee Association’s 2nd Annual Statewide Cupping Competition held this past weekend on The Big Island at the Sheraton Keauhou Beach Resort, Kupa’a Farms won “Best Coffee on Maui” for the second year in a row. Their overall score also placed them second in the state ahead of all Kona coffees and eclipsed [...]
Hawaii has become the front line of the DEA’s war on marijuana culture Pa‘ia’s Patients Without Time, a MMJ cooperative, is about to go to trial By Tom Stevens On September 13, medical marijuana advocate Brian Murphy and five other Maui men are scheduled to appear in 2nd Circuit Court on charges of criminal conspiracy [...]
By Paul Wood Dear Mr. Jefferson: Or–knowing that, in addition to being the third president, the Declaration of Independence writer, the founder of University of Virginia, an architect, inventor, and wine connoisseur, you are also reported to have been a kick-ass fiddle player–might I address you as though I were your fellow musician? Dear Monticello [...]
BY Tom Stevens The silly season is upon us again. The roadsides are packed shoulder-to-shoulder with sign wavers throwing shakas at honking motorists. Campaign signs have sprouted like nut grass in a thousand yards, and major intersections are as colorfully paneled as Monopoly boards. If those aren’t proof positive, various political Pooh-Bahs are using the [...]
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