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Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: Kauai War Memorial Convention Hall, Conference Room

This is an opportunity to let our state representatives, Speaker of the House Calvin Say, and Vice-Speaker Pono Chong know how important the moratorium on GMO Taro, the Koke'e bills, pesticide spraying on the westside, and bunker fuel burning at Nawiliwili are to Kaua'i people. There are many other important bills to both support and oppose as they cross legislative chambers. Check out… Continue

Greed In the Name Of Green
To Worshipers of Consumption: Spending Won't Save the Earth

By Monica Hesse
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 5, 2008; Page C01

Congregation of the Church of the Holy Organic, let us buy.

Let us buy Anna Sova Luxury Organics Turkish towels, 900 grams per square meter, $58 apiece. Let us buy the eco-friendly 600-thread-count bed sheets, milled in Switzerland with U.S. cotton, $570 for queen-size.

Let us purge our closets of those sinful synthetics, purif… Continue

From Jeff Mikulina of the Hawai'i Sierra Club:

> Farmland sprawl bills pass at legislature
> Votes today move energy package forward, but support for developer-friendly land use bills belie opening day “sustainability” mantra
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> STATE CAPITOL – Dozens of measures to increase Hawaii’s energy security, improve recycling, and provide protection for Hawaii’s unique species received the ‘green’ light to continue at the legislature today. But lawmakers also forwarded bills that may haste… Continue