| Ea O Ka Aina For a self-sustaining Kauai |
| ALOHA FROM KAUAI Give thanks for our harvest  Thanksgivings may soon be more like the first one. A time to be truly grateful. Black Friday & The Walking Dead  Consumers gutted by 30% interest rates are becoming zombies shoppers this year. Commercial Real Estate - a Blackhole  The collapse of US Commercial Real Estate market is scheduled for early 2010. Bottleneck  A book review of "Humanity's Impending Impasse", by William R. Catton, Jr. CO2 Curve Ticks Upward  Everything is tied to energy and climate as CO2 ppm tracks ever upward on Mauna Loa. Red Alert  The second wave of the financial tsunami is gathering force and will hit in the first half of 2010. Tim Geithner's Disgrace  Geithner doesn't understand the cards he holds, or the need to change the game's rules. Urban Farming Revolution  We could grow food, give employment, and teach the principles of sustainability right here. New Orleans and Kauai  A ruling against the Army Corps in New Orleans may have an impact in Hanapepe Valley. The War on Soy  Why the 'Miracle Food' May Be a Health Risk and Environmental Nightmare. Kauai Community Market  Great new market Saturdays from 10:00am to 1:00pm at KCC front parking lot. Courting Convulsion  Going into Thanksgiving our leadership has dedicated itself to the worst action it could take. Thanksgiving in Fallujah  Responding to such war crimes calls for constructive action to end the empire. Giant Monsters  A question arises with regard to the USA. Is it more a country or more a corporation? It's the net energy, stupid!  The growing disparity between the richest and everybody else is a result of the pie shrinking. Climate Change and Kauai  A look at global warming forecasts and how they will affect Hawaii and specifically Kauai. Return of the Zombieferry  Think the Superferry is dead? Don't be too sure. Lingle still wants to save her reputation. Bringing Money Down To Earth  Interview with Woody Tasch, of Slow Money, connecting investors to local economies. What is the Economy For Anyway  An economy isn’t – or shouldn’t be – about quantity of stuff, but about quality of life. E KOMO MAI Help direct our focus on the issues at hand with your ideas. Consider submitting articles to post by email to our staff. We encourage you to comment on articles that are posted. The comment feature has been underutilized and we urge you to add your thoughts to what passes by on our site. Simply enter your comment into the white box at the bottom of each post, and then hit the "Post Comment" button. We appreciate if you leave a name, even a made-up one. Also, if you do not see a righthand menu listing our staff and search options you need to widen the window displaying this site to at least 980 pixels. If you cannot display that resolution please scroll to bottom of page for missing menu contents www.islandbreath.org
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ISLAND BREATH NEW ARCHIVE OLD ARCHIVE NAVIGATION This "Home" page previews and links to selected recent articles posted on our blog. The "Week's Content" link displays the current week's articles in reverse order (most current first). The "Title Listing" link displays an RSS preview feed of the month's posts (without graphics). The "Currently" menu has news from the world and Kauai and sometimes "Up Coming" events. The "Archived" menu links toseveral other subject menus that link to our archived material between (2004-2008) as well as "The Gobbler" archive (1993-1999). Also burried in the "Archives" are some other special links to outside sources. The "Referenced" menu has information on weather, government agencies, No-GMO groups, Hawaiiana, agriculture, etc. MISSION Island Breath is an online publication dedicated to people interested in the well being of the island of Kauai. For us sustainability is crucial. Kauai is often called the "Garden Island". It is lush and fruitful - yet threatened. If this island cannot be self-sustaining there is little to hope for the rest of this world. We define sustainability as: Sustainability is not, however, a means for the continuatiing the status quo. We have named our website “Island Breath” or “Breath of the Island” because in Hawaiian that phrase would be... “Ea o Ka `Aina” "The Spirit, Life or Sovereignty of the Land” In fact, for many years the motto of Hawaii has been... "Ua Mau Ke Ea O Ka `Aina I Ka Pono" CONTACT We invite articles submitted by our readers.You can add an article (subject to editorial approval) by emailing what you want to say to one of our staff. Email us by clicking on a staff member name above. |