10.17.10 Adopt a Block Video

Check out the pictures from the 10.17.10 Adopt a Block Clean up!  Way to go!

ADOPT A BLOCK COMING UP - OCTOBER 17 - SUNDAY

The next Adopt a Block Clean-Up is on Sunday, October 17 from 9 -11. We will be picking up litter, counting cigarette butts (in hopes of finding less because we gave out 5 cigarette butt planters right after the last clean up in July), cleaning the street gutters on Hekili Street (stretch from Bowling Alley Driveway to Food Land Driveway), launching the use of our Eco-Composter (green ball near our garden) and doing more storm drain stenciling. An RSVP will be e-mailed out soon so families can sign up for the various adopt-a block jobs/areas.

We hope you can join us!

Kailua Beach Clean-Up for the International Coastal Clean-Up Redux

Mahalo to the Zaffran/Monahan Family who joined Mr. and Mrs. B on the Clean-Up Crew!

Kailua Beach Clean-Up for the International Coastal Clean-Up Redux

The Clean-Up on Sept. 25th was an excellent success! Throughout the morning, 27 volunteers, plus a handful of cute keiki, put on gloves and went off with their buckets, bags, and screens. We collected litter from the beach parks and plastic pollution from the coastline between Kailua Beach Park and Kalama Beach Park.

Details compiled from our volunteers' trash tally sheets are below. We collected 90 POUNDS in 2 hours! All the data from this international event will be posted on the Ocean Conservancy website in the following months.

8 Paper bags                                            69 Cups, plates or cutlery

36 Plastic bags                                         165 Food wrappers

27 Balloons                                              33 Pull tabs

15 Plastic beverage bottles                        1 6-pack holder 

12 Glass bottles                                        68 Straws

22 Beverage cans                                     14 Toys

161 Caps or lids                                       22 Items of clothing, shoes 

15 Pieces of Styrofoam                           1000 Bits of micro-debris

200 Fishing line, net, or rope segments      5 Oil or bleach containers

40 Floats and lures                                   13 Pieces of plastic sheeting

1700 Cigarette butts                                 2 Batteries

 4 Cigarette lighters                                  2 Diapers

 9 Cigar tips                                             1 Syringe, 18 band-aids

38 Tobacco wrappers                                6 toothbrushes

Volunteers noted the massive amount of litter within the parks. We will be working to create more places to dispose of cigarette butts as well as to add recycling bins. There is always more to be cleaned up in these high traffic areas, so we encourage you to pick up a bag of trash every time you visit!

The event was followed by a low-impact potluck. Except for a few toothpicks and a paper plate, we generated no waste! 

We extend a giant thank you and mahalo to all the participants who came out to support the efforts, those who donated buckets and supplies, and those who made some goodies to share. The Hawaii ZTA Alumnae Chapter made this their September event and drew ladies from around the island to help. Additionally, Huakailani School supplied us with the coolers for the day.

Tentatively, our next Clean-Up is scheduled for December. We are accepting ideas if you know of a Windward beach location or stream that is need of a clean-up crew.

Join Worldwide Monitoring Day: September 18

Last year a few Huakailani families participated. It is a great experience for the family.

World Water Monitoring Day: Saturday September 18, 2010 from 9a.m.-11a.m. World Water Monitoring Day™, officially celebrated on September 18 throughout the world, is an international education and outreach program that builds public awareness and involvement in protecting water resources around the world by engaging citizens to conduct basic monitoring of their local water bodies.

Hui o Ko'olaupoko and community volunteers will participate in World Water Monitoring Day by hosting two monitoring sites within the Ko'olaupoko moku of O'ahu. Sites include: Waimanalo Beach Park (meet at the lifeguard stand) and Kailua Beach Park (meet at the Kailua Canoe Club Hale). The public is invited to join with more experienced monitoring volunteers at these two locations on September 18, 2010, from 9 a.m. to 11a.m. to sample water quality in the ocean and nearby streams.

For more information or to RSVP call 808-381-7202

Huakailani is a Plastic Free Kailua Partner

Plastic Free Kailua is a grassroots organization focusing on reducing the use and distribution of single-use plastics, such as grocery bags, drink bottles, and deli containers. Their primary focus is the Kailua area, building on the local values of community and care for our beautiful part of the island.

Huakailani is joining them to  forward a mission of consumer and retailer responsibility. We are committed to taking thoughtful, personal action to reduce single-use plastics in your life. We will help launch a plastic education and reduction program with local businesses in the near future. Meetings and beach clean-ups happening soon, so stay tuned. The first official meeting planned for September 16. Contact Mrs. B if you are interested in attending the meeting with her.

Sept. 25th The International Coastal Clean-up comes to Kailua Beach

Sept. 25th The International Coastal Clean-up comes to Kailua Beach

We're planning to join the world's largest beach
clean-up effort on the morning of Saturday,
September 25th, the International Coastal Clean-up
forwarded by the Ocean Conservancy.

From Baltimore to Bangladesh, Ocean Conservancy
 leads the world's most astounding grassroots cleanup effort. 
Every year in September, more than half-a-million people in 100 
countries remove millions of pounds of trash from beaches and 
waterways all over the world—and collect data on what they find. 

Kailua Beach Clean-Up

*PLEASE check back for updates*

Saturday, Sept. 25th

8:30am check-in

11:00am: Join us for the trash weigh and tally 

and a low-impact pot-luck lunch

Kailua Beach Park, 450 Kawailoa Road

Meet near Main Parking Lot, East of Buzz’s

What to bring:

sunscreen, hat

work gloves

water bottles

a great attitude

low-impact lunch box or food to share

family and friends

The Eco-Composter has Landed on Campus

 

ENV Web Site

Check out the Department of Environmental Services - Our Clean ups have been highlighted!

http://www.cleanwaterhonolulu.com/storm/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3552

Check out the Adopt a Block Pics

Hekili Street looks great! :)

GREAT JOB HUAKAILANI

Mahalo to the hardworking Huakailani Ohana who volunteered for the 

July 18, Adopt-A-Block Clean Up. 

Stein, Brooks, Gonsalves, Wagner, Morrow, Zimmerman, Bauske, 

Darby, Bartram, Brown, Acquavella, Ziegner/Murray, Lukas

36 Fabulous Volunteers

The Adopt-a-Block Teams cleared street gutters and sidewalks of trash and leaf litter, picked up 4 bags of trash that included 853 cigarette butts and 7 bags filled with compost.

Be sure to check out the Adopt-A-Block Video to the left.

The Cigarette Butt Planters are Ready

They just need to be filled with sand and delivered on Monday. From left to right, they go to: Pail Lanes, Midas, Big City Diner and Ohana Karaoke.


The girls will count the cigarette butts collected on the July 18 Adopt-A-Block litter clean up day. The planters will be delivered on July 19. The goal is to pick up less cigarette butts on our October Adopt-A Block-Clean Up.

Huakailani Adopt-a-Block 2010

Calling all Huakailani Environmental Heroes!

We are kicking off Year 2 of our participation in the Adopt-a-Block program on July 18. Sunday.

Huakailani School completed their first year with the Adopt-A-Block Program in 2009-2010. They received the Good Neighbor Award from in May 2010 from the city and county of Honolulu for their volunteer efforts and for making a positive impact on their community.

This program integrates with Mayor Mufi Hanneman's concept of the 21st century Ahupua'a, but also  requirements under the City's storm Water Management Program to further reduce the amounts of pollutants entering the storm drain systems.

The work that Huakailani Volunteers do with this program helps to improve the quality of water running into the Hamakua Stream and the storm water drains of Kailua.

The students and families of Huakailani School have made a commitment to help keep Kailua Town clean one street at a time and improve the quality and conditions of the community by keeping pollutants off of the City roads and connected waterbodies. The streets that Huakailani has adopted are especially important because of the proximity to the streams and ocean.