Finally out of the cage

Are We Preserving Hawaii’s Resources?

         Hawaii is a place of paradise that has many resources that it draws from to keep it running and beautiful.  The Main resources are water, agriculture, technology, and Tourism.  Hawaii’s resources have been depleting quickly so the citizens of Hawaii have been working tirelessly to save our resources.  But our resources are still vanishing slowly.  We need to stop using all of our resources.  Our state is dying slowly but hopefully we can stop it before it is to late.

         We are trying to save Hawaii by using renewable energy.   Hawaii started to put up renewable energy like and solar panels.  This helps our economy save money and save the o zone layer above Hawaii.  This also helps us because we use less imported oil so money can stay in Hawaii.  We also started to use wind farms.  This will let us harness the winds energy and help power Hawaii cleanly.  By installing solar panels in 20 years will save Aiea high school an estimated $150,000 in electricity costs.  They put up a wind farm in the Big Island, Maui and on Oahu.  This will save our islands a lot of money because they also plan to put under water cables so people on other islands can get energy.  The renewable is a small portion of what we need to do we need to malama the aina or care for the land.

          There are many groups around Hawaii trying to help the aina (land) so we can live here for a long time.  There is one group that is called Malama Maunaloa they take care of the ocean.  One way they help the ocean by taking out invasive seaweed and plant native seaweed.  The seaweed that is some of the most harmful seaweed here is the Gorilla ogo, prickly seaweed and the leather mudweed.  We need to remove them because they take over the native seaweed and the fish wont eat them so we need to remove the seaweed.  If we don’t the fish are going to move away because the native algae they eat is gone and all that’s left is the invasive seaweed.  Also the seaweed that they pick is recycled in to compost to help local farmers so nothing is wasted.  There is also the Department of Land and Natural resources.  They help fund projects to help Hawaii stay the same and preserve it.  They also plan projects to preserve our natural and irreplaceable resources.  There was a government stimulus grant that hires people to pick invasive seaweed for an 8-hour shift and in a year they picked 3 million pounds of seaweed.  Its good that there are people trying to savor Hawaii but there are people who don’t.

         Some people don’t try to preserve Hawaii and aren’t changing their destructive life. Some people still use a lot of fossil fuels.  They mainly use fossil fuels for gas.  90% of Hawaii still uses fossil fuels for energy like transport regular electricity and more.  We some people hurt our community by littering.  There are many people who litter Hawaii.  There are also people who graffiti on our buildings and make it look dirty.  From people trashing Hawaii we go to the conclusion.

         In conclusion I think we are preserving Hawaii well but people are still not trying to preserve it.  So it is important that we get more people to preserve Hawaii.  We can help by going to help out community service outings.  Hawaii needs to start switching to renewable energy or find a way to save money so money can stay local.  But these are little things we can do to help Hawaii stay alive.