Purpose:
· Youth leadership and social enterprise development is our core objective, with strategies to build a localized movement to put the value of aloha ‘aina into action.
· The current economy of Laie, Oahu, Hawaii, the US and the rest of world have reached unsustainable levels.
· Now is the time to teach the youth of our community not only to survive, but how to thrive using provident living skills using the latest renewable energy and organic farming and aquaponics technologies and other resources.

How to Implement:
· Provide useful sustainability hands-on training for residents and tourists.
· Build in carefully organized and sustainable stages
· Homes in Ko’olauloa should have areas to do private organic gardening, and fruit tree.
· Should be designed to make us of natural lighting and to be cooled with out air-conditioning
· Village social engineering, that encourages connecting of family from baby to grandparents,
· Conform to current Ag zoning

Who Will Benefit:
· BYUH, Kahuku High & Intermediate, Ko’olauloa elementary students and teachers,
· Ko’olauloa Kupuna (from Kahuku senior housing, etc),
· Local organic farmers,
· Hawaiian studies students,
· Polynesian artisans

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Click here to see a real-time view of electricity being used in a 2 bedroom home in Laie, Hawaii.

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Earthship Plans

Earthship FAQ’s

Dennis Weaver’s Earthship Home

Center for Alternative Technology

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It was once a gently flowing river, where fishermen cast their nets, sea birds came to feed and natural beauty left visitors spellbound.

Villagers collected water for their simple homes and rice paddies thrived on its irrigation channels.

Today, the Citarum is a river in crisis, choked by the domestic waste of nine million people and thick with the cast-off from hundreds of factories.

So dense is the carpet of refuse that the tiny wooden fishing craft which float through it are the only clue to the presence of water.

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A man picks through the rubbish in the Citarum river
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Their occupants no longer try to fish. It is more profitable to forage for rubbish they can salvage and trade – plastic bottles, broken chair legs, rubber gloves – risking disease for one or two pounds a week if they are lucky.

On what was United Nations World Environment Day, the Citarum, near the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, displayed the shocking abuse that mankind has subjected it to.

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‘I said we shouldn’t have scrapped weekly collections’

More than 500 factories, many of them producing textiles which require chemical treatment, line the banks of the 200-mile river, the largest waterway in West Java, spewing waste into the water.

On top of the chemicals go all the other kinds of human detritus from the factories and the people who work there.

There is no such luxury as a rubbish collection service here. Nor are there any modern toilet facilities. Everything goes into the river.

The filthy water is sucked into the rice paddies, while families risk their health by collecting it for drinking, cooking and washing.

Twenty years ago, this was a place of beauty, and the river still served its people well.

As one local man, Arifin, recalled: “Our wives did their washing there and our children swam.”

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Plastic rubbish has clogged up the waterway

Its demise began with rapid industrialisation during the late 1980s. The mighty Citarum soon became a garbage bin for the factories.

And the doomsday effect will spread. It is one of two major rivers that feed Lake Saguling, where the French have built the largest power generator in West Java.

Experts predict that as the river chokes, its volume will decrease and the generator will not function properly.

The area will be plunged into darkness.

But at least the factories will be stilled and their waste will stop flowing.

And perhaps the river will begin to breathe again.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-460077/Is-worlds-polluted-river.html#ixzz0lIBBLL5g

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Statistics can be daunting and dry: 1,000,000 trees cut down every year; 9,000,000 American children without health insurance; 2,000,000 plastic bottles used every five minutes; 2,300,000 adults incarcerated in U.S. prisons. Renowned photographer Chris Jordan brings these staggering numbers to life in manipulated digital photographs that are at once alluring and shocking. A landscape of toothpicks, each representing a felled tree, stretches into the horizon; a looping maze of plastic cups reveal how many are used each day on airplane flights; fashioned from soda cans, a replica of a Seurat masterpiece becomes a lesson in waste; and thousands of Barbie dolls—representing the number of breast augmentations performed each year—combine to depict a woman’s torso. Filled with astonishing photographs of surprising beauty, this book, manufactured from recycled materials, helps us grasp visually the potential consequences of our culture of waste.

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Renewable Energy KHIS administration, teachers, staff, student annual payroll-Investment in personnel resources

Construction-New facility to house programs

Annual KHIS REIC cost-Projects, support and maintenance costs

Scholarships for KHIS students (senior projects)-Increase scholarships would help students complete degrees and get higher paying jobs

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Create opportunities for college enrollment
Help students into best colleges

Create opportunities for general scholarships
Create funds for students to pay for college

KHIS students receiving renewable energy scholarships
$2 million per year for 6 year projects

Hawaiian Immersion/Ahupua’a Programs
Create new networking connections with top exports

Increase test scores for college entrance
Extra training and resources can help improve test scores

Junior College/AP Program at KHIS
Provide hands-on cutting edge skills that are now sought after

Provide tutoring for Elementary and High School students
Help student improve learning skills and grades (NHS)

Tie into BOE’s STEM
Experiences tie into all learning skills needed

Create a Renewable Energy library
Put resources in one place

Provide a timeline of technology breakthoughs as a mural
Put in lobby

Build hands-on partnerships with high tech mentors
Lifetime mentors are very important

Create opportunities for higher paying, fulfilling careers
Give Hawaii students a chance for the best careers

Learn and implement leading edge RE technology
Value of new technology being testing in Hawaii first

Help other schools in the state with RE programs
They can get inspired by the youth of the community

More KHIS students enrolling in colleges
Become a role model for Hawaii, the US and the world

Reduction of Brain Drain, more Hawaii Taxes
Share program with other schools so they can also benefit

The facility can become an Alumni house
Share program with alumni

Improve quality of life in Hawaii
Money to keep environment pristine for community and tourists

Promote organic farming in Koolauloa
Reduces cost to import food

Recycle
Money saved, landfills reduced, earthworms used to breakdown PCC waste into mulch

Reduced dependence on oil
Find alternatives to oil, reduce consumption

Fitness/Bike path (plus 2012 state funding)
Encourages fitness, less gas used

Benefits to companies supporting REIC
Incentivize students to work on RE projects and receive recognition, scholarships, awards, macbooks, iphones, etc

Participating sponsors receive great PR by helping students
Media has an easy story to tell

Contests (projects, videos, boards, papers, t-shirt)
Promote programs-KHIS T-Shirt PR campaign

Showcase talent of youth
Give out certificates for work and project completed, for referal letters, college and job application references

Create Hawaii’s 1st sustainable community
Become a role model for Hawaii, the US and the world

Energy self-sufficiency for campus and communities
Companies can test their new RE technology here

Improve recycling efforts, recycling, beach cleanups
Get the word out about saving energy, promoting sustainibility, promoting renewable energy

Make KHIS REIC an honorable cause for the environment
Build a program that people can support

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