We finished up our season full of questions unpacking how our energy system works, who all the players are, and how to approach it in our daily fight for collective resistance and liberation from extraction and colonialism. One thing we do know, is that the energy system does impact every moment we use or communicate through our devices. And right now it is doing harm to communities hosting industrial scale energy facilities, our ʻāina, our native species, and the pocketbooks of working families struggling to make ends meet.
For all of the above, we are sharing two bonus episodes from recent panels hosted by grassroots statewide leaders and the Sierra Club of Hawaiʻi as a complement to the Hawaiʻi Energy Conference to raise up indigenous and community voices often ignored in the mainstream.
Native Hawaiian intelligence and indigenous perspectives shouldn't just to inform our transition to renewables, but lead the dialogue in this space. The ike of kupuna is not something added after the fact but should be at the inception or lead to the conception of an idea. The right foundation of knowledge can steer us back to the path that worked on our islands that worked for thousands of years before colonial contact- corporate power- and profit driven models.
On the panel are: scholar, kumu, and kiaʻi Dr. Pualani Kanakaʻole Kanahele, s Tēvita Kaʻili, and Ikaika Hussey. Moderated by Todd Yamashita- President of Hoʻāhu Energy Cooperative we spoke with for episode three this season. If you haven’t watched them, we think you should. The presentations were powerful and visuals would help with many of the references made, especially by the brilliance of Dr. Kanahele on Nā Kiʻiki Akua- Godly images. But the conversations were transformative and the reverence for ʻāina was palpable. Give it a listen, friends.
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