Ironically, while I was working at Brush Creek Ranch in Wyoming this past summer, I wrote an article about Sunset Ranch in Hawaii. The piece started as an article for Green Magazine about my totally rad friends Tim and Ye and their green inspired wedding that was held at Sunset Ranch. Unfortunately, after I sent the article in, the editor of Green wrote to tell me that they were suspending publication due to lack of…
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My piece about John Kelly: A Lifetime of Conservation is out now in the new issue of Green Magazine. You can view it here on page 22-23.
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Maybe it’s because decorating is another creative outlet, or perhaps I’ve just been watching too much HGTV, but for whatever reason, I’ve taken on the task of decorating the venue for the John Kelly Awards for the last three years. I just have a lot of fun with it and I try to up the ante every year with fresh ideas. Waimea is a challenging place to decorate – it’s a large open air pavilion…
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This past weekend the Surfrider Foundation’s Oahu Chapter held its 9th Annual John Kelly Environmental Achievement Awards on the North Shore at Waimea Valley. I am proud to be involved in organizing this fun event that honors environmental leaders who follow in the footsteps of pioneer surf environmentalist John Kelly. Kelly started the grassroots group Save Our Surf in the 1960’s (Surfrider’s predecessor in many ways) that was responsible for protecting the coastlines from destructive…
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One of my favorite running routes on Oahu is up Diamond Head road to the lookout. Over four years ago I stood there after a run, looking out at the ocean and decided I wanted to move to Hawaii. And I noticed a plastic bag in a tree. A black, plastic bag, knotted and wrapped around the limb of an old tree, weathered and torn, one frayed strand of it swaying in the wind. It…
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