UH Hilo announces 2022 Virtual Lā Honua Earth Day Celebration; events scheduled throughout month of April
This year’s theme is Wānana i ka Mauliola, referencing the collective ability to project and manifest a thriving and healthy Earth.
By Susan Enright/UH Hilo Stories.
The Lā Honua Earth Day Committee at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo announced today the schedule for April’s Lā Honua Earth Month.
“This year our committee scheduled virtual events such as keynotes, presentations, and panels, and four in-person huakaʻi (mālama ʻāina excursions) across the month of April,” emailed Michelle Shuey, instructor of geography and environmental sciences and member of the Lā Honua Earth Day Committee, to the UH Hilo ʻohana.
“Our theme this year is Wānana i ka Mauliola, which references our collective ability to project and manifest a thriving and healthy Earth.”
As described on the Earth Month website:
Our Theme this year is Wānana i ka Mauliola, which references our collective ability to project and therefore manifest a thriving and healthy Honua, Earth. Wānana is to foresee and foretell, and embedded within Mauliola are deep colors in our environment, the state of thriving, and of life and well-being. In the Hawaiʻi context, wānana is intentional and includes working towards an objective. In the Kaʻao model, Hiʻiaka foretold what the outcome would be for particular obstacles and then she worked towards accomplishing it.
The schedule of events is posted at the UH Hilo Lā Honua Earth Day website. For more event details and a link to register, use the links in the website schedule.
Registration is required for events. Once registered, participants will receive an email, within a day of registration, with zoom links and passcodes. With these links and passcodes, participants can attend any or all virtual events scheduled during Earth Month.
“For our four huaka’i opportunities, there are limits on the number of participants, so please register for those early to get your spot,” writes Shuey. “There is a separate registration form for those excursions and we will stop taking registrations once all the spaces are filled.”
Faculty are encouraged to share the schedule with students and incorporate events into classes.
Questions or concerns may be emailed to lahonua@hawaii.edu or contact Drew Kapp at dkapp@hawaii.edu or Michelle Shuey at mshuey@hawaii.edu.
By Susan Enright, a public information specialist for the Office of the Chancellor and editor of UH Hilo Stories. She received her bachelor of arts in English and certificate in women’s studies from UH Hilo.
