Candidate for Hawaii State Senate - District 7 in 2022 Hawaii Primary Election.
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Get StartedEstablish a Conservation Fee for visitors that will fund Conservation Corps jobs, providing career paths for our youth in science, ecology and field work. Jobs in ecosystem rehabilitation, and indigenous responses to sea level rise such as rehabilitation of wetlands, sand dunes and fish ponds instead of seawalls. Learn more
Emphasize more education in trades, based in sustainability and Hawaiian indigenous knowledge. Let’s use our education system to raise a generation skilled in things like sustainable infrastructure, organic farming, ahupua’a management, and community based shoreline management including fishponds. Learn more
Invest in agricultural practices that sequester carbon, and large-scale state-wide composting systems that reduce the release of methane, slowing climate change and rebuilding our depleted soils. Learn more
Establish a carrying capacity for popular but sensitive areas, and regulate the number of visitors allowed, to protect the environment and the quality of experience for locals and visitors. This has been successful in Hanauma Bay and for sunset at Haleakalā, so we should expand to places like the road to Hana and Molokini. Learn more
Use precious tax dollars to subsidize truly affordable housing, by non-profit developers or in community land trusts on vacant State & County owned lands, that will benefit residents for generations instead of becoming investment properties. Learn more
Take immediate action to put Hawaiians on DHHL lands, and empower them to build the kind of homes and communities that suit their specific family needs. Learn more
Funding that directly supports infrastructure and equipment to scale up local food production, including things like food hubs, feral pig and deer fencing and USDA organic certification. Learn more
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