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New to Try: Pervious Concrete (When it Rains, it Drains!)
How often have we seen it here on Maui? After a heavy rain, parking lots and streets turn into shallow lakes and streams. Your guests have to tip toe through muddy water, or jump over oily puddles to get from their cars to the hotel lobby. What if there was a pavement or concrete that…
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Accommodations Industry Leaders Gather to Share Reef-Friendly Innovations
Last month representatives from seven shoreline properties attended a five week course that introduced participants to “reef-friendly” projects, practices, and activities that enhance the guest experience, save money, and protect the valuable coral reefs here on Maui. Representatives from the following properties were in attendance: Hyatt Maui Whaler’s Village Kahana Sunset Four Seasons, Lanai Maalaea Banyans Condominium…
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More Herbivores Are Mo’ Bettah
The Kahekili Herbivore Fisheries Management Area (KHFMA), was established in June 2009, and is designed to protect important herbivorous fish species and urchins. Why protect herbivores? Because they are the reef cleaners. If there is too much algae on a reef, it can smother and kill corals. Herbivores do an excellent job keeping algae in…
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Last Line of Defense
After writing about West Maui for over five years as CORAL’s grants manager, I finally had the opportunity to visit the island on a recent vacation. I got to see first-hand how West Maui’s hotels and resorts are literally the last line of defense for adjacent coral reefs. Driving the North Loop Coastline Road Hwy…
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“Plarn” Reefs Featured in New Maui Airport Display
Earlier this year, thanks to support from the Hawai‘i Tourism Authority, we were able to set up two display cases in the Maui airport to educate travelers about the importance of protecting coral reefs. The cases highlight some easy ways visitors and locals can protect reefs, and feature a crochet coral reef made out of…
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New Course Teaches Reef-Friendly Shoreline Innovations
For Immediate Release March 16, 2015 MAUI, HAWAI’I–The Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL) is partnering with the Sustainable Living Institute of Maui to bring a new course to the University of Hawai‘i Maui College’s spring schedule. The 5-week class, Reef-Friendly Shoreline Innovations, is designed to teach watershed stewardship and landscape design principles to shoreline property owners…
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More People, More Trash
By Naneng Setiasih, Coral Triangle Regional Manager The small-fishing village of Tulamben in Bali struggled with poverty for decades, but that changed with a series of unfortunate events a few decades ago. The USS Liberty beached along its rocky shore after being torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1942. And in 1963 the eruption of…
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Spotlight on Low Impact Design (LID)
Soggy Christmas Eve storms make for high surf and cloudy snorkeling Severe storms with heavy rains in the week leading up to Christmas led to power outages, downed trees, and flash flooding throughout Maui. In West Maui, ocean waters were cloudy for several days following the storms, and while surf was big, few surfers wanted…
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HTA Natural Resource Program Grant Participation
Thanks to Diane Kanealii of Kailapa Community Association (KCA) Hawaiian Homes for submitting this article. Kailapa Community Association (KCA) is a Hawaiian homestead organization made up of residents who have stepped up to take on the Kuleana of Malama ‘Aina. Part of this Kuleana is to prepare the land for development. Through grants from the…