Green Maui: Conservation and Green Technology on the Valley Isle

Sep. 18, 2008

Your Island Lizard (psssst, they're not from here) Guide There I was, having the best coconut cream pie ever baked on the Earth. I was sitting in a little eatery perched high above the Kona coast, the expanse of ocean spread before me like the promise of everything sublime. Fat avocados (a fruit native to the southern Americas) hung gleaming in the late afternoon light, coffee (an Ethiopian fruit) swelled and reddened on the slopes below me - slopes that tumbled down to the lovely...

Snakes: Yes and No.

Aug. 30, 2008

I'm thinking that somebody has already told you or you have already overheard the following: "Fortunately, here in Hawaii we don't have snakes." Not true. We do have them, a lot of very small ones of a single species...but like every single herpetological specimen found from the western edge of Kure Atoll to the eastern point of the Big Island, THEY'RE NOT FROM HERE. Herpetological specimen? Snakes and lizards, in our case. (Turtles too, but clearly the sea turtles...

A Surge of Sand, A Boil of Life.

Jul. 17, 2008

It was roughly 6 a.m., and I had just fallen into that deep, dream-intensive slumber that seems only to come to me in the last hour of sleep, when Pono woke me up by saying "Judy, there's something happening". It had been a beautiful, sumptuously-starred night. A changing cast of characters had cycled through on sea turtle nest watch duty and those of us planning to stay until morning got to sleep late. The ocean crashed rhythmically in the moonless, salt-flavored darkness....

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Maui's Wind Farm

Article by Chatten Hayes

Ancient Hawaiians harnessed wind for voyaging, but modern islanders benefit from Maui's breezes right at home, with electricity generated by Kaheawa Wind Power in the West Maui Mountains.

Reef Awareness
Maui's coral reefs are rare and precious. Learn how to treat them tenderly on your next Maui snorkeling expedition.

Turtle Love
At your first glimpse of a Hawaiian green sea turtle, you're bound to be smitten. Next thing you know, it's a sea turtle tattoo over your heart.