Windfall
Laura Israel’s new film, Windfall, is now available on iTunes and Amazon. Watch what happens when a wind developer tried to supplement a rural farm town’s failing economy with another kind of “farm” — that of 40 industrial wind turbines. This “green” proposal divides the community of Meredith, New York — just as Big Wind has divided Lana‛i. A...
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I Aloha Moloka`i
Listen to the voices of I Aloha Moloka’i — our friends across the channel.
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Aftermath – I Aloha Moloka`i
PF Bentley takes us to the abandoned turbines at South Point on the Big Island to help us think about what Lana`i and Moloka`i might look like post-”Big Wind.”
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Wind Fall Out
Lana’i is a small, rural Hawaiian island facing the imposition of an enormous industrial wind power plant (170 turbines, each 410’ tall) on one-quarter of its land. Listen to Lana’i residents talk about the impacts of that invasion, hear commentary from government officials and learn about wind power from national experts.
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Google Earth Visualization / Fly Through
What would it look like to fly through the wind turbines if the Big Wind project succeeds?
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Haku Mo`olelo
“Haku Mo’olelo,” “writing stories,” is about stories that are being written or have been written. It appears every Friday in the Maui News. Haku Mo‘olelo July 22, 2011 By EDWIN TANJI (hakumoolelo@earthlink.net) , For The Maui News With Lanai residents paying some of the highest fuel prices in the country, the island has potential to set the pace for Hawaii in shucking...
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Dan Boylan’s Island Insights
Friends of Lana`i and I Aloha Moloka`i recently appeared on Dan Boylan’s Island Insights on Hawai`i PBS. You can watch the program in it’s entirety by following this...
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Testimony by Rep. Thielan – Undersea Cable Puts Expenses on the Ratepayer
Hawaii state Rep. Thielan recently gave testimony against the undersea cable planned by HECO Watch the testimony on YouTube.
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Wind Fall Out
Lana’i is a small, rural Hawaiian island facing the imposition of an enormous industrial wind power plant (170 turbines, each 410’ tall) on one-quarter of its land. Listen to Lana’i residents talk about the impacts of that invasion, hear commentary from government officials and learn about wind power from national experts.
Our MIssion
Friend’s of Lana‘i (FOL) gives voice to the many Lanaians who strongly oppose destroying culturally and environmentally sensitive lands on Lana’i to build an industrial wind power plant that would send power to O`ahu. FOL supports decreasing Hawaii’s dependence on fossil fuels by increasing the use of a variety of de-centralized, distributed renewable energy sources, and advocates for making Lana’i a world class model of energy self-sufficiency. You Can Say No!
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Friends of Lana`i on the Radio
Listen to our two radio spots. We really don’t want all of our hard earned money to be “gone with the wind” do we? First spot: Gone with the Wind Radio Spot Second spot: I Aloha Moloka`i Radio...
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Maika‘i Lana‘i, Hemolele i ka Malie! – Timelapses of Lana`i
Check out this compilation of timelapses shot around the island of Lana`i in late November 2011.
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Comments from the Petition to Governor Abercrombie
The following are comments from the petition to tell Hawai`i state governor Abercrombie and members of the Hawaii State Legislature to stop Big Wind on Lana’i and Moloka’i and to support decentralized...
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Ka`a Named One of Hawai`i’s “Five Most Endangered Historic Places”
Recently, the Ka’a Ahupua’a, site of the proposed wind power plant and launchpad for Neil’s cable, was voted as one of Hawaii’s five most endangered historic places by Historic Hawaii...
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Clearing up Misinformation for the Legislature
Friends of Lana’i learned that Castle & Cooke wrote a follow-up note to the legislative visitors with much mis-information and distortion. To set the record straight, Friends of Lana’i submitted this report...
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Latest Articles from “Civil Beat”
Here are the latest articles from the Civil Beat: Access to the Grid is Key in...
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The Beauty of Ka`a – Image Gallery
FOL recently received a suite of photographs made by Grant Kaye in the area...
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