A few of us rose before dawn and loaded into Carlhey and Rebecca’s van, groggy but eager. Each Thursday, the Waipa Foundation hosts “Poi Day” – a community gathering on Hanalei where volunteers help processContinue reading
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Sustainability through Native Hawaiian Taro Plant Farming Practices
Operating as a community-based non-profit program, the Waipa Foundation in Hanalei Bay in Kauai, Hawaii, works exhaustively to honor and communicate native Hawaiian land to sea sustainability practices. Interested learners through youth programs and workshopsContinue reading
Defining the Balancing Act: Reconciling Tourism and Culture on Kauai
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one littleContinue reading
Protecting Paradise
Lessons from the Hanalei Watershed Hui.
Aloha!
Loaded are packs, jumped on planes, crossed oceans, and here we are! Ten students have come to Kauai to explore and learn about restoration ecology from local community members and conservation projects. Follow us onContinue reading
Chase Discomfort, Not Elephants: Reflections from Summer
I’m creeping through a forest in Gabon. Chasing elephants. Dangerous, enormous elephants.
Tripp Burwell
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In Pursuit of Illegal Loggers in India
In 2010, I went to India to develop the capacity of an NGO there. We ended up uncovering an illegal logging ring that had to be dealt with. This week’s blog is hosted at National Geographic.
6 Things I Never Thought I’d Do
“I’d like to highlight some of the weird or exciting activities and habits that have come along during my first five months at the Nicholas School.”
Happy New Year from 5 Happy Lemurs
The Duke Lemur Center is a magical oasis of Madagascan paradise (which just means it’s a nice spot in Duke Forest that happens to have some lemurs in it) where I get to spend some of my time.
Fighting Desert Fire
While studying abroad in Namibia in 2007, stray weld sparks set off a blaze at Tripp’s field camp. This is the story of trying to fight a fire in the desert without water.