Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/14/2015
All Day

Location
The Kohala Center

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For several years, The Kohala Center, the Edith Kanaka‘ole Foundation, and the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT have been in conversation about the possibility of connecting ancestral knowledge with research to address critical issues at the intersection of human and natural systems and science. These include energy self-reliance and food self-reliance. With a powerful and indigenous foundation of living in abundant self-reliance, of humanity living in kinship with nature, Hawai‘i operates with a spirit of aloha, a sense of generosity and care in communities both human and natural. And this despite the fact that Hawai‘i Island currently imports 85% of the food consumed on the island and is 95% dependent on fossil fuels for the production of energy. This dependence has a tremendous impact on the socio-economic and environmental health of Hawai‘i and the physical and spiritual health of its people. Thus, Hawai‘i models contemporary challenges, as well as indigenous success, with regard to sustainability and the well-being of our entire island planet.