Creating a Sustainable South Maui

FEATURED EVENTS
  HELP CHART THE SMS COURSE FOR 2010
PERMACULTURE APPLICATIONS FOR GARDENERS
GUEST SPEAKER: NEIL ABERCROMBIE
SMS GARDEN PROJECT GOES NATIONAL
EDIBLE GARDEN TOUR
RENEWABLE ENERGY ARTICLES

South Maui Sustainability Forum:
CHARTING OUR COURSE TO A SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY

 Thursday, February 11
6:30 P.M.
Kihei Charter School
 
Join South Maui Sustainability for an opportunity to collaborate and set direction for future projects and events. This forum is an excellent opportunity to connect with others who are eager to learn, plan, and take action on key organizational, community and personal sustainability efforts. Come share your ideas and insights and connect with neighbors to really make a difference in South Maui. Help us continue to be the model for other communities to follow.

The South Maui Sustainability Forum is a community event sponsored by the all-volunteer South Maui Sustainability group. All are warmly invited and encouraged to attend and share their mana’o. We welcome potluck pupus to share; local is mo betta’.


March meeting:
MAKING MAGIC IN SMALL SPACES:
PERMACULTURE APPLICATIONS FOR
SOUTH MAUI GARDENERS

Thursday March 11th 6:30–8:00 PM
Location to be announced.

A lively panel of speakers will share simple methods and ideas for a prosperous and sustainable garden. They will give you an overview of Permaculture and it’s remarkable philosophy and application. There will also be plenty of time for Q&A !

We will be doing a plant/seed/fruit exchange as well. Bring any extras that you have to give away, and take something home of you like.


SMS COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT SERIES
WITH NEIL ABERCROMBIE

Thursday, March 18, 6:30–8:00 PM
Kihei Charter School



SMS GARDEN PROJECT GOES NATIONAL

The SMS Kihei Elementary School garden project is featured in the Huffington Post article, Maui’s Edible Garden for Children by Lorna Sass.


SECOND ANNUAL EDIBLE GARDEN TOUR
We are planning our second annual Edible Garden Tour. Please let us know if you would like to have your garden included in the tour this spring. Email info@southmauisustainability.org`.

NEW FOOD PRESERVATION COMMITTEE FORMED
See details


VIEWS OF MAUI RENEWABLE ENERGY
Recent Maui Weekly renewable energy articles by SMS committee head, Chris Mentzel—good reading.
What Can You Do?, July 30, 2009
The 100 Percent Solution, July 23, 2009
Dollars and Sense, July 14, 2009
Maui’s Chance, July 9, 2009
Our Energy Future, July 2, 2009

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