Lā Honua Earth Day 2025
The Lā Honua Earth Day Committee welcomes students, staff and faculty from Hawaiʻi Community College and University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo to join us in celebrating Lā Honua ~ Earth Days 2025 with events from April 4th to April 22nd. Our theme this year is I Ola ʻOe, I Ola Au, Together We Thrive.
Registration
Please pre-register for the events you would like to attend, using the button below. Registration for the K-12 event is closed; however, registration for all other activities is open!
Lā Honua Event Registration
Includes Keynote, Huakaʻi, and Work Days
2025 Lā Honua Events
Mālama Honua Activity - Lāʻī
Date: Friday, April 4, 2025
Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Location: UH Hilo - Library Lanāi
Details: Learn about the significance of lāʻī, then beautify the library common areas by planting tī and controlling invasives
Mālama Honua Activity - Māla
Date: Saturday, April 5, 2025
Time: 10:00am - 1:00pm, on-site
Location: Hawaiʻi CC - Kō Education Center, Honokaʻa
Details: Māla ~ Gardens Day, Native Outplanting
Mālama Honua Activity - Loko iʻa
Date: Friday, April 11, 2025
Time: 9:00am - noon, on-site
Location: Waiuli (Hilo)
Details: Mālama Kai at Honokea Fishpond with Hui Hoʻoleimaluō
Mālama Honua Activity - Nahele
Date: Saturday, April 12, 2025
Time: 8:00am - noon, on-site
Location: Hawaiʻi CC - Pālamanui, Kona
Details: Mālama our Dryland Forest & enjoy potluck lunch
Mālama Honua Activity - Nahele
Date: Sunday, April 13, 2025
Time: 10:00am - 2:00pm, on-site
Location: Wao Kele O Puna in the ahupua‘a of Kaʻohe and Waiakahiʻula in the moku of Puna
Details: Mālama our Rainforest at Wao Kele O Puna
Lā Honua Virtual Keynote
Date: Monday, April 14, 2025
Time: noon - 1:00pm
Location: Zoom
Details: Keynote presented by Penobscot Nation cousins Sherri Mitchell -Wehʻna Haʻmu Kwasset, an Indigenous rights attorney, activist, spiritual teacher, author, and transformational change maker; and John Bear Mitchell, Wabanaki Storyteller, Singer, and Drummer as well as Wabanaki Studies and Multicultural Studies Educator at the University of Maine in Orono.
Lā Honua K-12 Earth Day at UH Hilo
Date: Thursday, April 17, 2025
Time: 9:00am - noon
Location: UH Hilo - various locations
Details: Campus Fair for K-12 Students, K-12 MUST be Pre-Registered by 21-February
Lā Honua Conservation Career Day at UH Hilo
Date: Thursday, April 17, 2025
Time: noon - 3:00pm
Location: UH Hilo - Library Lanāi & Campus Plaza
Details: Conservation Career Information Day for Hawaiʻi CC and UH Hilo Students
Mālama Honua Activity - Nahele
Date: Monday, April 21, 2025
Time: 9:00am - 1:00pm, on-site
Location: Keaukaha Military Reserve (Hilo)
Details: Mālama the Hilo rainforest; a restoration morning with an hour-long workshop on native and canoe plant uses
Kīpaepae & More
Date: Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Time: 10:00am - 1:00pm
Location: Hawaiʻi CC - Manono
Details: Opening Lā Honua Kīpaepae
followed by Keynote with K. Kuʻulei Kanahele, Workshops related to ʻAi Pono & Art Making, Māla Activities, Music!
If you have any questions, please contact the Lā Honua Earth Day Coordinators: Lisa Canale at canale@hawaii.edu (UH Hilo) or Drew Kapp at dkapp@hawaii.edu (Hawaiʻi CC) and, for K-12 activities specifically, please contact Diane Barrett barrett9@hawaii.edu (UH Hilo) or Judith McDonald judithmc@hawaii.edu (UH Hilo).