Presented by The Hawaiʻi Institute for Sustainable Community Food Systems at University of Hawaiʻi – West Oʻahu, Honolulu Civil Beat, UH Better Tomorrow Speaker Series, and Waiwai Collective, this series is meant to generate key opportunities for community dialogue among a diverse audience, aiming to achieve a healthy, equitable, resilient and sustainable food system for Hawaiʻi.

On June 1, 2022, 14 youth in Hawaiʻi filed a constitutional climate lawsuit, Navahine F. v. Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation, against the Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation (HDOT), HDOT Director Jade Butay, Governor David Ige, and the State of Hawaiʻi. The youth plaintiffs claim that their state DOT’s operation of a transportation system that results in high levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions violates their state constitutional rights, causing them significant harm and impacting their ability to “live healthful lives in Hawaiʻi now and into the future.”

The youth seek to ensure HDOT steps up to meet the state legislature’s goal to decarbonize Hawaiʻi’s economy and achieve a zero emissions economy by 2045.

The first hearing in this youth-led climate case is now scheduled for Thursday, January 26th!

The first of a series of legislative events regarding the 2023 legislative session

Presented by the Native Hawaiian Place of Learning Advancement Office:

As a Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Campus Center and a campus committed to becoming a Native Hawaiian Place of Learning, we intentionally pause on January 17, 2023 to mark 130 years since the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom and the 7th annual National Day of Racial Healing. We will also honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Learn more about the Green Amendment from the founder of the Green Amendment for the Generations Movement, Maya K van Rossum.

Hosted by the Good Food Movement. A plant-based cookbook launch and conversation with the authors from 4:30-7pm at Yoga Under the Palms in Kaimuki.

Mackenzie and her mother, Kathy came up with these 60+ recipes, all of which are gluten-free and vegan! The two interviewed 16 people (farmers, doctors, chefs, activists, and more) who are changing the food system and making healthy, culturally-relevant food more accessible for all. 

Hawaii Climate and Environmental Coalition presents a webinar with Maya van Rossum. Learn about a Green Constitutional Amendment.

Find out and discuss climate change bills coming up in the 2022 legislative session.

Through a thoughtful merger of intrinsic ancestral knowledge deeply rooted in the natural world and the innovations of today, we aim to inspire, invoke, and encourage collective action to solve the greatest challenge of our time — climate change. Here, in Hawai‘i County, we know and understand that Local Insights Grow Global Solutions.

This event is part of the initiative TED Countdown, a global platform for sharing and accelerating solutions to the climate crisis. From Africa to Norway, Countdowns are happening all around the world. As an official network partner of TED Countdown, the County of Hawaii invites you to become part of the community of changemakers committed to creating a better future.