Challenge yourself to Eat Local from Sep 26 to Oct 2! Commit to a campaign action and get access to restaurant and market offers, recipes, events and more.

Why? Hawaii’s food supply is extremely vulnerable. If barge and air freight to Hawai‘i were interrupted, our islands’ food supplies would last only 14 days. We can build a healtheir, more sustainable and secure food supply with our consumer power.

Take the challenge: Commit to an action below in support of a healthy, sustainable, secure food system. We’ll help you get started by posting recipes, guides, and deals from our restaurant and market partners.

Spread the word: Share a recipe, brag about the meal you just made (with photo proof!), and spread the word on a local eating deal by posting a quick journal.

Come to our Website and Join Us in the Challenge:

Kanu Hawaii Challenge: Eat Local 2010

Celebrate World Bamboo Day on September 18, 2010.

Go to the official website for more details about events in your area.

http://worldbambooday.org/

There’s a common and true phrase posted on most websites selling bamboo products: Use bamboo and save a forest. Bamboo replenishes fresh air by balancing oxygen and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. It is the fastest growing canopy to renew degraded areas. Today there are so many bamboo blogs and organizations that you can get lost in cyberspace.

It’s fact that common hardwoods take ten times longer to mature and bamboo clumps grow new shoots for about 75 years. One bamboo clump can produce 200 poles in five years. It takes about three years for each clump shoot to grow into a full-size hard and dense pole. Bamboo agriculture is far more business efficient than tree farming. Thankfully, there are no known GMO variants of bamboo to date. Continue Reading