Please join us! Beach clean ups enable us to care for our marine environment, show community support for our shared natural resources; and they are fun. Great opp to meet our Ocean Girl Project volunteer staff, MAHALO!
Things to bring: hat-visor, work gloves, reusable bottle, sunscreen, snacks. Ocean Girl Project volunteers provide a shade tent, water station, buckets and large rubbish bags.
Special considerations: Since this is an outdoor and shoreline activity, be prepared for sun, wind or inclement weather. Please wear comfortable shoes (closed-toe or sturdy sandals suggested). We provide safety guidelines and tips for participants.
OGP volunteers set up early, please join us!
Directions from Waikiki: drive past the entrance to Makapu’u Beach and Sea Life Park – go a little further then turn right into the next driveway, follow driveway to the left, the parking lot and beach face the pier, look for OCEAN GIRL PROJECT surfboard signs. Baby Makapu’u has ample parking in the morning, bathrooms & showers near by, surf and the beach is a great area to explore and snorkel.
For more information, please contact:
Colleen Kudo
colleen@oceangirlproject.com
Facebook.com/oceangirlproject/events
BASIC BEACH CLEANUP GUIDELINES
Remember, SAFETY FIRST.
1. Wear gloves when you are picking up trash and have hat/visor, clothing and sun-block to protect from the sun.
2. Be cautious and aware of the ocean waves; never turn your back on the ocean.
3. Always stay in teams of at least two. All children need to be supervised by an adult at all times.
4. Don’t touch or pick up dead animals, or attempt to move injured animals. Instead, contact the responsible authorities:
a. Report stranded, entangled, or injured marine mammals (whales, dolphins, and seals) by calling the NOAA Fisheries Marine Mammal Hotline at 1-888-256-9840.
b. Report stranded, entangled, or injured marine turtles by calling the Marine Turtle Research Program at (808) 983-5730
This is step by step instructable that will take you through the whole process of making these solar mason jars with a bead “Chandelier” inside. They look great during the day but really shine at night. You’re garden Faries will love them!
The Makahiki season was the ancient Hawaiian New Year festival, in honor of the god Lono of the Hawaiian religion.
It was a holiday covering four consecutive lunar months, approximately from October or November through February or March. Thus it might be thought of as including the equivalent of modern Thanksgiving and Christmas traditions.
Green House Worshops Sat, November 17th & Ahupua’a – Keiki Shirt
* Makahiki Food Plants Cooking Series (read history and see the kahea ahupua’a t-shirt below)
The Hawaiian season of * Makahiki is upon us. Natural Food Chef Gigi Miranda will lead this cooking series to honor the season focusing on healthy recipes using traditional plants, ʻUala, Kalo, Ulu and Niu. Each session will cover one plant in-depth and feature a farmer or gardener sharing their harvest.
The Green House Saturday, November 17th 10 – noon
Fee $50/Class or $180/Series 1/17, 12/1, 8 & 15 Advanced Registration and Prepayment Required To see calendar & register online http://www.thegreenhousehawaii.com Or call (808) 524-8427
Herbal Tinctures and Infusions Workshop
Learn how herbal tinctures and infusions can add more herbal magic healing power to your life and how to make them yourself with Herbalist and Ethnobotanist Laura Shiels. A helpful informational booklet will also be provided.
The Green House Saturday, November 17th 1 – 3pm
Fee $20 Advanced Registration Required
To see calendar & register online http://www.thegreenhousehawaii.com Or call (808) 524-8427
*Today, the Aloha Festivals celebrate the Makahiki tradition
The Makahiki festival was celebrated in three phases. The first phase was a time of spiritual cleansing and making hoʻokupu, offerings to the gods. The Konohiki, a class of royalty that at this time of year provided the service of tax collector, collected agricultural and aqua-cultural products such as pigs, taro, sweet potatoes, dry fish, kapa and mats. Some offerings were in the form of forest products such as feathers. The Hawaiian people had no money or other similar medium of exchange. These were offered on the altars of Lono at heiau – temples – in each district around the island. Offerings also were made at the ahupuaʻa, stone altars set up at the boundary lines of each community.
All war was outlawed to allow unimpeded passage of the image of Lono. The festival proceeded in a clockwise circle around the island as the image of Lono (Akua Loa, a long pole with a strip of tapa and other embellishments attached) was carried by the priests. At each ahupuaʻa (each community also is called an ahupuaʻa) the caretakers of that community presented hoʻokupu to the Lono image, a fertility god who caused things to grow and who gave plenty and prosperity to the islands.
The second phase was a time of celebration: of hula dancing, of sports (boxing, wrestling, sliding on sleds, javelin marksmanship, bowling, surfing, canoe races, relays, and swimming), of singing and of feasting. One of the best preserved lava sled courses is the Keauhou Holua National Historic Landmark.
In the third phase, the waʻa ʻauhau — tax canoe — was loaded with hoʻokupu and taken out to sea where it was set adrift as a gift to Lono.At the end of the Makahiki festival, the chief would go off shore in a canoe. When he came back in he stepped on shore and a group of warriors threw spears at him. He had to deflect or parry the spears to prove his worthiness to continue to rule.
Ahupua’a – Keiki Shirt (also women)
Find AT Kahea online
Mauka to Makai summarizes the philosophy of Hawaiian ecology and economy. Everything that is done on land, effects the ocean–and vice versa. Mahi`ai (farmers) up mauka and the lawai`a (fishermen) at the shore would exchange food crops and fish. This interdependence is the basis for all of Hawaiian society.
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posted: Mar 31, 2011 7:52 AM HST Updated: Mar 31, 2011 8:12 AM HST
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HONOLULU, Oahu (HawaiiNewsNow) – In honor of Earth Day, Ocean Girl Project Sustainable Surf Camp for girls is organizing a beach clean up on Saturday April 2nd 2011 at Kaupo Beach near Makapu’u. MAP LINK
You drive past the entrance to Makapu’u -turn right into the 1st driveway, at the fork, turn left towards the pier. Or you can park under the wind sox. It is almost across the street from Sea Life park, we will tents and OCEAN GIRL PROJECT surfboards and signs out.
Following the beach clean-up there will be a terrific sustainable presentation by Reef Watch Waikiki about our island reefs and a representative from Surfrider will talk about the plastic bag ban. Great for kids and adults!
The Beach Clean-up will begin around 9:00 am with a short talk about Ocean Girl Project, beach cleaning safety tips, why plastic ocean debris is hurting our ocean, and a short lesson on separating recyclable material from rubbish. The beach clean-up at about 11:30am. From about 12pm – 1pm there will be sustainable ocean presentations.
This event is for all ages and everyone is invited, bring your groups, class mates, neighbors, friends and family. Ocean Girl Project will be providing gloves, burlap bags, buckets, and drinks. There will also be Ocean Girl Project organic after sun products and recycled-sustainable items made by their volunteers for sale.
Laughter, smiles, tears, ocean, Hawaiian style goodies, sustainability and ohana, all part of what Ocean Girl Project is all about! Oh and all kines of surfing!!!!
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