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If you are interested in becoming a member of the O'ahu Sustainability League, just send an email with your name and location to: oahuleague@yahoo.com .



This list will not be available to the public. This is for sending information on League events and activities, and for you to give us news and feedback on related issues.

Aside from building an e-mail list, we are also soliciting letters from concerned citizens that want to support the growth and development of sustainable agriculture in Hawai'i. These letters of support will be used to make state agencies aware of the will of the people on this issue.

The above entry can be used as a catylist for your letters if you don't know where to start.

This entry will be used to post updates and hyperlinks to media relevant to the League mission.

Mahalo


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Here is a link to the Alchemy Farms blog:

Alchemy Farms


Alchemy Farms is working to secure a 10 year lease assignment on DLNR land in Waimanalo. This farm will serve as an organic food farm, organic landscape nursery, and a model project for the development of Hawai'i-specific sustainable farming technology.




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Media:

The Real Dirt on Farmer John

excellent documentary on an organic farming pioneer. Trailer below.


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Crucial Comedy that helps put current events in an alternative perspective that is very relevant to the sustainable minded.



Robert Newman's One man show: Google Video Link


"Robert Newman gets to grips with the wars and politics of the last hundred years - but rather than adhering to the history we were fed at school, the places oil centre stage as the cause of all commotion. This innovative history programme is based around Robert Newman's stand-up act and supported by resourceful archive sequences and stills with satirical impersonations of historical figures from Mayan priests to Archduke Ferdinand. Quirky details such as a bicycle powered street lamp on the stage brings home the pertinent question of just how we are going to survive when the world's oil supplies are finally exhausted."

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VERY NICE PHOTO SET


LINK:Running the Numbers
An American Self-Portrait

"This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 426,000 cell phones retired every day. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.

My only caveat about this series is that the prints must be seen in person to be experienced the way they are intended. As with any large artwork, their scale carries a vital part of their substance which is lost in these little web images. Hopefully the JPEGs displayed here might be enough to arouse your curiosity to attend an exhibition, or to arrange one if you are in a position to do so. The series is still in its early stages, and new images will be posted as they are completed, so please stay tuned."

~cj, January 2007

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Here is a link to information on the Codex issue. If you are unfamiliar with the Codex issue, it sounds like something out of a Sci-Fi conspiracy movie.

Stop Codex: 40 minuite video http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/

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Scientific American article: Appetite for Organics

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Part one of 6 parts on Bill Mollison, and the Permaculture concept. Click once to view this video here. Double click to go to YouTube to see all six parts.



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International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements

LINK:(IFOAM)

These folks are connected to the Codex Alimentarius Commission. They have some interesting info, but after watching the above link to the Codex video from Health Freedom USA organization, I'm a bit skeptical of the move to "Harmonize" the food standards. You be the judge.