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Inside thi s i ssu e: Letters from the Program Chair and the Editor (p. 1) Spotlight on Campus: HPU

Newsletter for the MA in Global Leadership & Sustainable D e ve l o p m e n t P ro g r a m a t H a w a i i P acif ic Unive rsi ty

Hawai'i Loa Campus Expansion and The Green Club at HPU (p. 2) Spotlight on Faculty: Dr. Louie Primavera‟s Aquaponics Project and Dr. Regina Ostergaard-Klem (p. 3) Spotlight on Students: Saleh Azizi and Duda Breeseg (p. 4) Spotlight on Alumni: Erwin Hudelist and Myah Ely (p. 5) Spotlight on Hawaii: Kanu Hawaii and the Blue Planet Foundation (p.6) Spotlight on the

Letter MAGLSD Program Chair, Dr. Art Whatley A Sustained ALOHA to All Friends, Alumni, Students, Faculty, Staff, and Administrators affiliated with the MA program in Global Leadership and Sustainable Development: Welcome to this first issue of ―Spotlight on Sustainability‖. Profoundly important changes are occurring in the MAGLSD program and this newsletter is the perfect vehicle for sharing. For starters, the program was moved to the College of Natural and Computational Sciences as of July 1, 2009. After the move, my new colleagues from Environmental Science and I started work in September on a major revision of the curriculum which will go into effect in the Fall, 2010. We are adding new courses such as: ―Sustainable Energy Systems,‖ ―Global Climate Change,‖ and ―Sustainable Building Sciences‖ to strengthen the sustainable development dimension of the degree. Also, we are adding a 9-credit ―supporting field‖ option. Students will chose from over 9 different academic areas. Examples are: International Disaster and Emergency

Management, International Economics, Religion and Sustainability, Community Development, Environmental Science, World History. We believe that with these changes we will be on our way to having one of the most respected interdisciplinary leadership and sustainable development-focused masters programs in the Pacific and Western United States regions. Our goal is to produce global leaders who are first and foremost environmental stewards and who understand the causes of the multitude of environmental, social, and economic

Dr Arthur Whatley, Chair of MA in Global Leadership and Sustainability Development humbly displays his garden in the back of his house in Enchanted Lakes, Kailua. Reconnecting with nature can be done by learning how to run urban gardens.

problems we face at both the global and local levels. And, perhaps most importantly, these new global leaders will have the moral courage to help chart new directions towards a human community in harmony with the natural world. Upon closing, I invite you to contact me or Paula Lombardo, the Student Editor of this Newsletter, with your feedback, comments or questions about any aspect of the newsletter or the MAGLSD program. Our aim is to become a vital information exchange with alumni, friends, prospective new students, faculty, and the many NGOs, business organizations, and communities—local, national, and international—who support the vision and values of the MAGLSD program. On a personal note, Mahalo, Paula for having taken on the huge task of designing this Newsletter and publishing this first Issue. Like so many other students, old and new, Paula has been unselfish with her time and energies on behalf of the program. Mahalo! Send your correspondence to:

awhatley@hpu.edu

World: Idealist.org and Ashoka.org (p. 7)

Letter from the Editor, Paula Lombardo

Mahalos!

I try to live by the motto : ―To whom much is given, much is expected‖. As a new student in the MAGLSD pro-

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gram, I came to HPU via Jamaica and Kenya (full story in next issue) with a clear goal in mind: To learn as much as possible to maximize my ability to take full advantage of my privilege by serving humanity. While my life‘s

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journeys have made me feel abundantly blessed and inspired, they have also heightened my awareness of the realities of the effects our ―abundance‖ has had on many parts of the world. As Paul Hawken said in Blessed Unrest, ―If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren‘t pessimistic, you don‘t have the correct data. If you meet the people in this unnamed movement and aren‘t optimistic, you haven‘t got a heart.‖ I strive for balance between the realities of the problems we are facing with hopefulness in the wealth of solutions being offered, discussed and implemented throughout the global community and particularly in the sustainability movement. The MAGLSD program is helping me achieve Continued on back page...


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