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The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups across Hawaii.

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  • News ‘Groundbreaking’: How children in Hawaii won landmark climate case, aljazeera.com (Jun 21, 2024)
  • News How traditional Hawaiian food is playing a key role in wildfire recovery, theguardian.com (Feb 21, 2024)

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Networks and sustainability initiatives

Bioregionalism

  • Enlivened Cooperative, worker-owned, not-for-profit, eco-social learning organization. (Hawaii). added 15:28, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Food activism

Community energy

Solar power

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The energy sector in Hawaii has rapidly adopted solar power due to the high costs of electricity, and good solar resources, and has one of the highest per capita rates of solar power in the United States. Hawaii's imported energy costs, mostly for imported petroleum and coal, are three to four times higher than the mainland, so Hawaii has motivation to become one of the highest users of solar energy. Hawaii was the first state in the United States to reach grid parity for photovoltaics. Its tropical location provides abundant ambient energy.

Much of Hawaii's solar capacity is distributed solar panels on individual homes and businesses. Hawaii's grid has had to deal with this unique situation by developing new technology for balancing the energy flows in areas with large amounts of solar power. In 2023, distributed solar produced 1,408 GWh while utility-scale solar produced 643 GWh. Hawaii had 1,808 MW of installed solar capacity in 2023. The largest utility-scale solar farm in Hawaii is the 60 MW Kuihelani Solar on Maui, which opened in 2024, and includes 240 MWhr of battery storage As of 2024, solar power produced 19.5% of Hawaii's electricity.

Wind power

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Wind power in Hawaii is produced by the state's 132 commercial wind turbines, totaling 236 MW in capacity. In 2015, wind turbines produced 6.4% of Hawaii's electricity.: 2  In 2012, Hawaii generated 367 million kWh from wind power.

Arts, sport and culture

SPACE: Seaview Performing Arts Center for Education

Coastal community activism

Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii, inspiring local communities to care for their coastlines through hands-on beach cleanups.

Sustainable transport activism

Wikipedia: Hiking trails in Hawaii (category)

Towards sustainable economies

  • Island and Indigenous systems of circularity: how Hawaiʻi can inform the development of universal circular economy policy goals, ecologyandsociety.org, 2023

News and comment

2022

  • News The farmers restoring Hawaii’s ancient food forests that once fed an island, theguardian.com (Jun 17, 2022)

2021

  • Hawaii becomes first US state to declare a climate emergency, Apr 29, 2021...[1]

2017

This Hawaiian mayor is scoring touchdowns for clean energy, Aug 8[2]

Fossil-free islands: A blueprint for sustainable development? Jun 14[3]

2015

Hawaii Just Became The First State To Ban Plastic Bags At Grocery Checkouts, July 1[4]

University of Hawaii System votes to divest from fossil fuels, May 22[5]

Hawaii Will Soon Get All Of Its Electricity From Renewable Sources, May 7

Will Hawaii be the First State to Go 100 Percent Renewable? March 16[6]

Maui runner circumnavigating the state to save the environment, February 2[7]

2014

Could small, biodiverse farms help Hawaii grow enough food to feed itself? June 19[8]

Environmental issues in Hawaii

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The majority of environmental issues affecting Hawaii today are related to pressures from increasing human and animal population and urban expansion both directly on the islands as well as overseas. These include the unsustainable impacts of tourism, urbanization, implications of climate change such as sea level rise, pollution, especially marine plastic pollution, and invasive species.

About Hawaii

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Hawaii ( hə-WY-ee; Hawaiian: Hawaiʻi [həˈvɐjʔi, həˈwɐjʔi]) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about 2,000 miles (3,200 km) southwest of the U.S. mainland. It is the only state not on the North American mainland, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only state in the tropics. It also hosts 10 out of 14 climates - the highest for any country subdivision - and is one of two U.S. states with a tropical climate.

Hawaii consists of 137 volcanic islands that comprise almost the entire Hawaiian archipelago (the exception, which is outside the state, is Midway Atoll). Spanning 1,500 miles (2,400 km), the state is physiographically and ethnologically part of the Polynesian subregion of Oceania. Hawaii's ocean coastline is consequently the fourth-longest in the U.S., at about 750 miles (1,210 km). The eight main islands, from northwest to southeast, are Niʻihau, Kauaʻi, Oʻahu, Molokaʻi, Lānaʻi, Kahoʻolawe, Maui, and Hawaiʻi, after which the state is named; the latter is often called the "Big Island" or "Hawaii Island" to avoid confusion with the state or archipelago. The uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands make up most of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, the largest protected area in the U.S. and the fourth-largest in the world.

Of the 50 U.S. states, Hawaii is the eighth-smallest in land area and the 11th-least populous; but with 1.4 million residents, it ranks 13th in population density. Two-thirds of Hawaii residents live on O'ahu, home to the state's capital and largest city, Honolulu. Hawaii is among the country's most diverse states, owing to its central location in the Pacific and over two centuries of migration. As one of only six majority-minority states, it has the only Asian American plurality, the largest Buddhist community, and largest proportion of multiracial people in the U.S. Consequently, Hawaii is a unique melting pot of North American and East Asian cultures, in addition to its indigenous Hawaiian heritage.

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Created September 16, 2014 by Phil Green
Last modified August 13, 2024 by Phil Green
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