{"id":5515,"date":"2012-04-10T16:43:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T02:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=5515"},"modified":"2021-12-10T16:50:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T02:50:44","slug":"leeward-sustainability-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/04\/10\/leeward-sustainability-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability celebrated at Leeward festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_5566\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5566\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/kamole.jpg\" alt=\"child at activity center\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/kamole.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/kamole-260x173.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5566\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leeward Community College&#8217;s Ka Mole o N&#257; Pua Festival features hands-on keiki activities<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeward.hawaii.edu\/\">Leeward Community College&#8217;s<\/a> 4th annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeward.hawaii.edu\/kamole\">Ka Mole o N&#257; Pua Festival<\/a> takes place on Saturday, April 14, 10 a.m.&#8211;2:30 p.m. in the campus courtyard and offers a variety of activities celebrating sustainability. There will be cooking demonstrations, a kids climbing wall, entertainment, local product vendors, food stands, keiki crafts, Hawaiian games and hands-on educational activities.<\/p>\n<p>The festival is free and ample free parking is available. Mats, lawn chairs and coolers are welcome.<\/p>\n<p>New additions to the festival this year include a Create A Mural station and <span aria-label=\"Waianae\">Wai&#699;anae<\/span> Seariders robotics and <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> State Science Olympiad activities.<\/p>\n<h2>Festival highlights<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A solar powered race track with race cars propelled by solar panels for children to enjoy<\/li>\n<li>A 70-foot-long mural that will be created throughout the day by the children attending the festival and will be exhibited in Leeward&#8217;s Foyer Art Gallery during Earth Week<\/li>\n<li>Read-alouds and story telling by local librarians and student actors<\/li>\n<li>Story booths presented by students from the Leeward&#8217;s Hawaiian studies program<\/li>\n<li>Ewablue Worm Composting worm farming<\/li>\n<li>Free <abbr>CFL<\/abbr> light bulb exchange<\/li>\n<li>Book sales by Bess Press and N&#257; Mea Native Books<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The festival&#8217;s non-stop entertainment includes the <span aria-label=\"Ewa\">&#699;Ewa<\/span> Elementary School Choir, Leeward Jazz Ensemble, Leeward Choir, Ashley K. Simpson, Iroquois Point Band and M&#257;nana Elementary School Choir. Special guests include contemporary jazz artist Starr Kalahiki and Latin salsa with Espiritu Libre.<\/p>\n<p>Aloha <span aria-label=\"Aina\">&#699;&#256;ina<\/span> Recycling will offer drive through recycling and will accept a variety of items and eWaste&#8211;scrap metal, non-freon appliances, <abbr>HI<\/abbr>&#8211;5 beverage containers, used cooking oil, cellular phones, printer cartridges, <abbr>DVDs<\/abbr>, <abbr>CDs<\/abbr>, Blu-ray discs, games, newspaper, phone books, magazines, plastic bags, bottle caps, used eye glasses, hearing aids, batteries, computers, monitors, printers, clothes toys and golf balls.<\/p>\n<p>Go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeward.hawaii.edu\/kamole\">Ka Mole o N&#257; Pua Festival website<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leeward Community College festival celebrates sustainability with educational, musical and interactive events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":5564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-5515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-leeward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/kamole-f.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5515"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153057,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5515\/revisions\/153057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}