How about helping to keep Kauai’s beaches clean?  Volunteering just 2 hours would make a big difference to this mostly wild coastline.  Enjoy a picnic and beach walk on the newly cleaned beach afterwards.  (East shore)  Contact Juldy Dalton at 808-246-9067.  Sponsored by the Sierra Club, Hawai’i Chapter.

Mitchell Pau’ole Center, Kaunakakai Annual Earth Day celebration on the island of Moloka’i with food, entertainment, and lots of educational booths.  This year’s theme for Earth Day on Moloka’i is:  Momona ka papa ke e’ ehu ka ‘aina — The reef thrives when the land is healthy For more information, contact The Nature Conservancy’s Moloka’i office at: 808-553-5236.

Mauka to Makai Expo

Jump on the trolley from Kaimuki High School to the Waikiki Aquarium; its free, for the 2008 Earth Day Mauka to Makai Expo from 9-2pm, sponsored by the City and County of Honolulu, State of Hawaii Department of Health Clean Water Branch and the Waikiki Aquarium. You are welcome to observe the moi release next to the Waikiki Natatorium sponsored by the State of Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resource Division of Aquatic Resources, 11-11:30 am. Various agencies and organizations and hands-on activities will be announced in the coming weeks.

Mauka to Makai Cleanups

City and County of Honolulu Department of Environmental Services is sponsoring the Manoa-Palolo Canal Adopt-A-Stream cleanup project, an exciting collaborative effort with the Ala Wai Watershed Association and Kaimuki High School. A total of 300 volunteers are needed to remove litter and cutback streambank vegetation along the Manoa-Palolo Canal bank adjacent to Kaimuki High School, between Date Street and Waialae Avenue. Work tasks will be assigned based on physical abilities.
8:30 - 11am

Meet at the Manoa-Palolo Drainage Canal near the Date Street bridge

Karen Ah Mai, 955-7882

Malama O Manoa Adopt-A-Stream Cleanup
Total Volunteers Needed: 25
8:30-9:30am

Meet at the Woodlawn Bridge
For more information call: George Arizumi, 988-5069

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pacific Regional Visitor Center

Fort DeRussy Beach Cleanup

Total Volunteers Needed: 25

9-10 am

Meet at the Pacific Regional Visitor Center, Battery Randolph, Fort DeRussy, above the Army Museum

Garland Ireland, 438-2815

Kaupa Adopt-A-Stream Cleanup

Total Volunteer Needed: 25

8:30 -11 am

Meet at the Kalihi Waena Elementary School parking lot

Barbara Natale, 536-6999

Volunteer Information

To register, please also go to www.cleanwaterhonolulu.com and click on contact us, select volunteer.

Age: 13 years and older

Supplies and refreshments will be provided

Volunteers should wear covered shoes, long pants, hat and sunscreen. Dress to get dirty and bring a change of clothing.

Food Donations Needed (hotdogs, refreshments)

Please contact Karen Ah Mai at the Ala Wai Watershed Association at 955-7882.

About 25 volunteers are needed for a city-sponsored Adopt-A-Stream project in Kaupā. Volunteers will  meet at 8:30 a.m. at the Kalihi Waena Elementary School parking lot. Must be 13 years and older. Supplies and refreshments will be provided. Volunteers should wear long pants, covered shoes, a hat and sunscreen. Free. Call Barbara Natale, 536-6999.

About 25 volunteers are needed for a city-sponsored Adopt-A-Stream project in Waikīkī. The event, hosted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pacific Regional Visitor Center, will meet at 9 a.m. at Fort DeRussy above the Army Museum. Must be 13 years and older. Supplies and refreshments will be provided. Volunteers should wear long pants, covered shoes, a hat and sunscreen. Free. Call Garland Ireland, 438-2815.

About 25 volunteers are needed for a city-sponsored Adopt-A-Stream project in Mānoa. The Mālama O Mānoa will meet at 8:30 a.m. at the Woodlawn Bridge. Must be 13 years and older. Supplies and refreshments will be provided. Volunteers should wear long pants, covered shoes, a hat and sunscreen. Free. Call George Arizumi, 988-5069.

About 300 volunteers are needed for an Adopt-A-Stream clean-up, sponsored by the city, in the Mānoa-Pālolo area. The clean-up, which is a collaboration with the Ala Wai Watershed Association and Kaimukī High School, runs from 8:30 to 11 a.m. Meet at the Mānoa-Pālolo drainage canal near the Date Street bridge. Volunteers are needed to remove litter and cut back streambank vegetation along the canal. Must be 13 years and older. Supplies and refreshments will be provided. Volunteers should wear long pants, covered shoes, a hat and sunscreen. Free. Call Karen Ah Mai, 955-7882.

Head to the Waikīkī Aquarium for the 2008 Mauka to Makai Expo, sponsored by the city, Hawai‘i Department of Health and the Waikīkī Aquarium. Watch the moi release next to the Natatorium from 11 to 11:30 a.m. The event will also feature hands-on, educational activities. Free. www.cleanwaterhonolulu.com.

NOAA is looking for interested groups or individuals to participate in a Hawaiian Monk Seal Count. The goal is to have volunters and community members counting monk seals on the same date and time on each of the main Hawaiian Islands. Volunteers will be assigned to a beach location and asked to fill out a sightings form. Digital images of seals will also be important to send to NOAA. Contact Nicole Davis at 292-2372 or nicole.davis@noaa.gov.

This lecture will be led by cultural historian Kepa Maly at the Outrigger Keauhou Beach Resort in Kailua-Kona. Reservations not necessary. Free. Call Joy Cunefare of Bishop Holdings Corporation on O‘ahu at 521-1408.