Keahole Center for Sustainability

18/01/2025

Choose to Refuse Plastic!

18/01/2025

KCS's first water refill installation of 2025 was this week at Makua Lani Christian Academy in Kailua-Kona! Our amazing, Nikki Montenegro oversaw the work. Students and staff were so excited to have clean, healthy, good-tasting water available every day, and to reduce the use of plastic water bottles on campus! If you would like to support this effort, please let us know! #

19/10/2024

30/11/2023

Do you live in South Kona and have a cesspool? If so, this is an amazing opportunity to receive a free conversion to a safer option that protects our water and oceans.

For more information on this water quality crisis, you can read what our 22-23 intern Jasmine Larson wrote about this for her 8th grade capstone report in comments.

Please share! For the 💙of the Reefs! 🪸🪸🪸🪸🪸🪸🪸🪸🪸🪸🪸🪸🪸

23/09/2023

Keahole Center for Sustainability donating and installing filtered water refill stations this weekend at several local schools in and just outside Lahaina, Maui. Local schools sheltered and fed hundreds right after the fire for days before help arrived. Now, they have taken in hundreds of extra students from schools that were destroyed. Access to clean water is so important right now after the aftermath. These stations have seven filters and even alkalize and add electrolytes at the end.

13/07/2023

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Saturday, July 15th is the monthly 3rd Saturday Garden Workday. This month we will be shredding cardboard, making ecobricks with unrecyclable plastic and glass bottles, and taking apart pallets to recycle into building materials. It's an all about reuse day!

30/06/2023

Congratulations to Nikki Montenegro Littlefield for being awarded with the Outstanding Undergraduate Student Poster Presentation by the Hawaii Conservation Alliance Foundation at the 30th Annual Hawaiʻi Conservation Conference 2023 for presenting her KCS sponsored community sustainability action program, Choose to Refuse Plastic!🏆💪🥇

28/06/2023

So very proud of our Junior Project Manager, Nikki Montenegro Littlefield, of our Choose to Refuse Plastic community sustainability initiative for presenting her abstract and poster of the program at Hawaii Conservation Alliance 2023 Conference! If you are here, stop by and see her! Way to go, Nikki! 🏆

04/05/2023

Do you want to learn more about water quality in Kailua-Kona? You can join a virtual town hall tonight at 6:30 to learn more about this important issue impacting our coastlines.

Join Wastewater Alternatives and Innovations as they host a virtual town hall discussing the cesspools located in Kailua-Kona.

03/05/2023

So good to see our friend, Hiroshi Arai, back at HOST Park!

01/05/2023

Mahalo Big Island Chocolate Festival, for choosing us as a beneficiary! So honored to be a part of such a great community event. 🍫🥰Our volunteers helped set up the silent auction, worked VIP security, manned our beneficiary table, admission and had a little fun too!

29/04/2023

Come join us for the Big Island Choclate Festival! So excited to be a part if this fantastic event that benefits local charities like ours, celebrating the Big Island's chocolate farmers and cuisine!

The Big Island Chocolate Festival, hosted by the Kona Cacao Association, returns for its 10th annual installment April 28 and 29 at a new venue, Waikōloa Beach Marriott Resort & Spa.