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We are now recruiting college students for a new and exciting course, “Exploring Green Careers in Hawai‘i” to be held at University of Hawaii’s Leeward Community College. This independent study course (IS299) will begin in January 2012. To encourage registration, up to 3 credits of tuition will be paid for by this program. These credits will be transferrable to any post-secondary college or university.
IS 299 “Exploring Green Careers in Hawai`i” will help students increase their knowledge and skills in their `āina-focused career interest. Students will design and complete projects, which will show how their pursuit of a “green” career will lead Hawai`i to a more sustainable future. Projects could focus on directed reading/research, internships, service learning, or apprenticeship with a cultural practitioner.
Green careers could include a wide range of jobs in areas such as forest and ocean management, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy and energy conservation, recycling and waste management, environmental education, urban planning, green building design, Hawaiian cultural preservation, native plant propagation and landscaping, alternative transportation, and more.
This course will be team-taught by resource people from Leeward Community College and the Mālama Learning Center. Funding for this program is made possible by a grant to the Mālama Learning Center from the State Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.
For more information about this course, contact us via email (info@malamalearningcenter.org) or call Aulii Silva at 808-455-0555 or Mālama Learning Center at 692-8200 ext. 2267.
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Mālama Learning Center provides content and support to teachers in Leeward/West O‘ahu whose students conduct projects that study sustainability using cultural practices in today’s context. Projects culminate at a hands-on fair where students share their acquired knowledge.
With the support of a grant from the Walmart Foundation Hawai‘i State Giving Council, we were able to help Leeward/West O‘ahu schools start sustainability projects for the 2011-2012 school year. In total, three aquaponics (aquaculture + hydroponics) systems and three native plant nurseries, each different depending on the schools’ needs and circumstances were created! It was so much fun working work with Kapolei High School, Wai‘anae High School, Nānākuli High School, Pearl City High School, and Leeward Community College in this program. The teachers went on site visits and worked hard to put all the pieces together with our educators’ and consultants’ help.
These projects, under the Hawai‘i Green Collar Institute, provided and will continue to provide students with hands-on learning opportunities to study math, science, and language arts, and learn about food sustainability and conservation as well as jobs in those fields. Some schools plan to study the business of selling fish and produce from their aquaponics systems to local farmers markets and all schools will be propagating native plants from their nurseries for community restoration projects.
In November, 2011, all schools gathered together for a hō'ike at Leeward Community College to share their progress and what they learned. |
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