Word on the Street about . . . Sustainability

April 16, 2008 • Word On The Street Email Print

The trend in sustainability seems to be doing these grandiose reports and staying in consultant land, talking about 2030. They're focused on these big plans. The plan is only 10% of the solution. We want to be sure there is implementation at the grassroots level.

We're focusing on what we can do in the next two years, which is a lot. Just one thing we're doing is community-supported agriculture, including helping people get onto "50 mile diets." We're providing a distribution network for small farms on Kaua'i, which makes them sustainable and gets back to community economics where people are supporting themselves. We're revitalizing a guava farm when it was going to be shut down.

Keone Kealoha
Executive Director
Malama Kaua'i
Kilauea, Hawai'i