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Environmental Organizations of Maui
Volunteer on Vacation in Hawaii! Check out the big list of volunteer opportunities in Hawaii. You can earn a 5% discount on your stay at the Hale Hookipa, and a 5% donation to the organization for which you volunteer!
Please visit out new environmental page at Hawaii-stuff.com!
Your
help.... How many organizations and causes can you help? Fund raising obsesses
politicians and non-profits alike, because without funds, nothing happens.
Philanthropy ensures that even the things that are not instantly calculable as profit in
an ever capitalizing world receive money.
While ecotourism helps fund the preservation of threatened ecosystems, often
the money stays in the hands of large corporations more concerned with the quarterly
report than the preservation of the place they've chosen to exploit.
This short sightedness is what Jacques Cousteau lamented when he said:
Honu' Ea - The Hawksbill Sea Turtle
A very infromative site about the comeback of this endangered species, thanks to the cooperative efforts of government and private entities. Your help can lead to success! Nice job, Russ.
Visit these organizations' web sites by clicking these links:
Mark Twain quotes about Hawaii from Letters from the Sandwich Islands:
If the house would only burn down, we would pack up the cubs and fly to the isles of the blest, and shut ourselves up in the healing solitudes of Haleakala and get a good rest; for the mails do not intrude there, nor yet the telephone and the telegraph. And after resting, we would come down the mountain a piece and board with a godly, breech-clouted native, and eat poi and dirt and give thanks to whom all things belong, for those privileges, and never house-keep any more.... What I have always longed for was the privilege of living forever away up on one of those mountains in the Sandwich Islands overlooking the sea.
Mark Twain, October 26, 1881, from a letter to Charles Warren Stoddard
No alien land in all the world has any deep strong charm for me but that one, no other land could so longingly and so beseechingly haunt me, sleeping and waking, through half a lifetime, as that one has done. Other things leave me, but it abides; other things change, but it remains the same. For me its balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun; the pulsing of its surfbeat is in my ear; I can see its garlanded crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore, its remote summits floating like islands above the cloud wrack; I can feel the spirit of its woodland solitudes, I can hear the plash of its brooks; in my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.
Mark Twain, April, 1889, From an address to a baseball team that returned home via the Sandwich Islands.
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