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ALOHA FROM KAUAI Raise Awareness • Inspire Change  Questioning GMO use and supporting food seed sovereignty and a clean environment. Expand Hawaii Whale Sanctuary  Sanctuary do not include many areas needing protection; especially on Kauai and Niihau. Brian Schatz's Oahu-Centric Plans  His energy plans leans on the resources of outer islands while ignoring their needs. Fracking B.S. in New York  Act today to Protect New York's Clean Water from Dirty Drilling. Real Security for Kauai Conference 8/7  What are our priorities to be in the face of gathering social and environmental problems? Dickie Chang & the Lawyers  County lawyers have piivileged talk to Dickie about TVRs before vote of Kauai Council. The Story of Soil  Aerobic compost and compost tea can turn dead dirt into life-giving soil in three years. Ten Hearty Orphan Crops  More about the different kinds of orphan crops that grow here and all over the world. Mufi's Superferry Dreamin'  Hannamen will likely turn to desperate measures, like, say, reviving Hawaii’s Superferry. Slumdog Billionaire!  Five chapters on ways for you to profit BIG from global collapse. Between too soon and too late  We won't do it by choice. We'll stop burning fossil fuels when we cannot do so anymore. Greener Wailani Development  Molokoa project revamped to include bike lanes and wider storm water runoff areas. Kauai Investing in Green  If every household invested, the island’s ecological footprint would decrease by 50 percent. What is it?  An accelerating systemic collapse of activity due to over-investments in hyper-complexity. We Can't Afford this House  Fannie and Freddie function today as off-balance-sheet conduits for bailouts by taxpayers. Afghanistan War Diaries  WikiLeaks today released over 75,000 secret U.S. military reports on war in Afghanistan. Saudi Race to Failure  We are facing the reality of betting everything on a non-renewable source. Hawaii Full Body Scanners  Are full body scanners going to Honolulu? You'll be able to refuse them... For now. Full Body Scanner Politics  Brian Schatz and Charles Djou agree on this issue. Full body scanners are no health risk. The Perfect Population Storm  Six trends converging on collapse all relate to overpopulation and overuse of resources. Risks of Fiddling  Rome is burning. Why are you fiddling? The real world awaits, beyond the edge of empire. Survey to Preserve Public Access  Suggest lands or access for Kauai to acquire under Preservation Fund. Kawaihau Trail? E KOMO MAI Help direct our focus on the issues at hand with your ideas. Consider submitting articles to post by email to our staff. We encourage you to comment on articles that are posted. The comment feature has been underutilized and we urge you to add your thoughts to what passes by on our site. Simply enter your comment through the link at the bottom of each post, and then hit the "Post Comment" button. We appreciate if you leave a name, even a made-up one. If you want to simply give a post a "Thumbs Up" or "Thumbs Down" we have added a check box for each at the bottom of the post. Vote with your mouse! Also, if you do not see a righthand menu listing our staff and search options you need to widen the window displaying this site to at least 980 pixels. If you cannot display that resolution please scroll to bottom of page for missing menu contents. www.islandbreath.org
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Publisher NEW ARCHIVE OLD ARCHIVE NAVIGATION This "Home" page previews and links to selected recent articles posted on our blog. The "Newest Content" link displays the current week's articles in reverse order (most current first). The "Title Listing" link displays an RSS preview feed of the last 25 posts (without graphics). The "Currently" menu has news and views from the world and Kauai plus occasional "Up Coming" events. The "Archived" menu links to several other subject menus that link to our archived material between (2004-2008) as well as "The Gobbler" archive (1993-1999). Also burried in the "Archives" are some other special links to outside sources. The "Referenced" menu has information on Weather, Government, Agriculture, Environment, Peak Oil, Sovereignty, etc. MISSION Island Breath is an online publication dedicated to people interested in the well being of the island of Kauai. For us sustainability is crucial. Kauai is often called the "Garden Island". It is lush and fruitful - yet threatened. If this island cannot be self-sustaining there is little to hope for the rest of this world. We
define sustainability as: Sustainability is not, however, a means for the continuatiing the status quo. We have named our website “Island Breath” or “Breath of the Island” because in Hawaiian that phrase would be... “Ea o Ka `Aina” "The Spirit, Life or Sovereignty of the Land” In fact, for many years the motto of Hawaii has been... "Ua
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