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Sustainability
Sustainability Would Save the State of
Hawaii and Maui
Using MAUI as an example of all Hawaii:
Save Maui’s Economy with Self-Sufficency
After 9/11, Maui and all Hawaii were hit by a FINANCIAL
Hurricane – some of the worst financial difficulties to
hit Maui & the State in a long time—4 months with businesses
making 40% less revenues.
It frightened everyone because no one could predict when or if
the Hawaii economy would turn around. It really hurt our economy
in the short term.
With London & Spain terrorism in mind, if “9/11
Number 2” ever happens in the U.S. (and experts
anticipate it will), Maui tourism $ may decrease much more
for a much longer time than after the first 9/11.
During this time of global instability it does NOT make sense
to depend on a ship across the ocean to deliver food, fuel, and
energy supplies to Maui in the middle of the Pacific.
Maui has NO CHOICE but to become more SELF-SUSTAINING in its food
and energy.
Together, let’s make a wise choice to Save Maui’s
Economy!
This Would Help Protect Maui's Economy:
Making Maui self-sustaining in Food & Energy protects
Maui’s economy during these fragile times:
1. JOBS for Maui's own home grown NEW Food & Energy
industries.
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JOBS for MANY Construction Workers, Union workers, and others
to build and constantly maintain new
buildings and structures; solar, wind,
and water systems; irrigation systems; maintenance roads; trucks
to bring in building materials & supplies and transport
Maui grown food throughout Maui; and agricultural workers to
plant, grow, and harvest food.
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This enables Workers to build structures that are really
needed for Maui, instead of
building new hotels, resorts, and luxury homes that are not
needed and take away so much of Maui’s finite, beautiful
open land and gorgeous vistas.
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Creates $ REVENUES to replace lost tourism
& counter the effects from lost revenues.
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Provides dependable income to Maui's
families to continue
providing for their children.
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By being self-sufficient, Maui substitutes local revenues
to replace any lost tourism revenues that may come
from wartime difficulties in the future.
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Maui will become much stronger through an independent, sustainable,
economy.
2. FOOD. Grow much more of Maui's own food on Maui.
Provide more locally grown food for Maui—there are 155,000
people to feed a day (includes 45,000 tourists daily on Maui).
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Grow local "organic" produce, dairy products, and poultry.
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Grow medicinal herbs (big money maker) for
export, and grow alternative crops.
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Grow alternative crops on Maui that are being experimented
with on the Hamakua Coast on Big Island.
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Create partnerships for land use & farming with Alexander
& Baldwin and Maui Land & Pine.
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Make partnerships to distribute Maui
grown food with Foodland,
Safeway, Star Market, Mana Foods, Down to Earth, and all markets.
3. ENERGY & FUEL. Maui develops its
own NEW large energy & fuel resources industry.
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Solar. Set up solar farms,
home & office solar installations in Kihei,
Wailea, West Maui.
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Wind. Set up windmill farms
in possibly Kaupo and other areas of Maui where the wind blows.
With windmills, need to be sensitive to protect the view of
the landscape scenery.
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Water capture. Increase Maui’s water
resources.
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Build new reservoirs in East Maui
and Upper Haiku.
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Free up some streams & water rights for
small farmers to do more agriculture.
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Waste conversion to electricity and gas. This
can convert much of the waste in Maui’s landfills and
garbage dumps to electricity and fuel for Maui to use. This
technology is already on Maui and available to be used.
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80 million gallon water storage reservoir to use with
pump turbines to create
electricity. It would be located Upcountry above 2,000
feet elevation. A high volume
facility of this type is currently operating successfully in
California’s Central Valley.
4. Preserve Maui's WORLD FAMOUS NATURAL BEAUTY to attract and
increase tourism.
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Save the Beaches -- Create
a North Shore Park that saves Baldwin and the neighboring
beaches. Preserve
and Save Makena, Olowalu, North Beach, Kaupo, Hana Coast.
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Protecting
Maui’s Beaches
= More Tourism $.
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JOBS for preserving Maui’s Beaches and Land, and
preservation of Native Culture.
ACTION YOU CAN TAKE TO MAKE MAUI SELF-SUFFICIENT:
Fax, mail, & email NOW the Maui County Council and
the Mayor and say, " I request your budgetary
legislative support now for Maui to grow much more of its own Food
supply & develop its own Energy—and the JOBS that come
with it—and increase Maui’s future tourism by preserving
& saving Maui’s Beautiful Beaches and Land.”
Emails, faxes and letters cause serious concern to Council members
and the Mayor. Send a lot NOW.
EMAIL for all members: firstname.lastname@mauicounty.us
MAIL: 200 S. High St., Wailuku, HI 96793
To help this effort, please send tax-deductible donations
to:
Earth Foundation 1135 Makawao Ave. , #104 Makawao, HI 96768 USA
Earth Foundation is here to help you protect your family, home,
and livelihood.
Make Maui Self-Sustaining.
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