Previous Community Workshops
From March through May of 2022, the Resilience Office hosted six community engagement workshops. To ensure the Climate Ready Oʻahu would better reflect needs and perspectives of frontline communities that had been underrepresented in previous engagement efforts, we designed an outreach campaign in partnership with organizations based in these communities. Mālama Learning Center acted as our core partner to connect the City with other community organizations to host the workshops. We are grateful to our community partners for helping to design a more equitable community engagement initiative. Learn more about this initiative below!
The Climate Ready O'ahu community workshops were featured by our community partner, Mālama Learning Center, in their television program, Outside Hawaiʻi, on July 24, 2022.
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MAʻO Organic Farms
Date: March 5th, 2022
During our first visit to MAʻO Farms, our team led MAʻO interns and ʻohana members in playing “Are You Heat Ready?” to discuss the impacts of increasing temperatures in the community. Following our discussion, we participated in a hana activity where we weeded their learning garden.
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Kuhiawaho
Date: March 15th, 2022
As part of Mālama Learning Center’s Hawaiʻi Green Collar Institute at Kuhiawaho, our team led students in playing “Are You Heat Ready?” to discuss the impacts of increasing temperatures in the community. Students participated in weeding the Loʻi for their hana activity.
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MAʻO Organic Farms
Date: April 2nd, 2022
In order to include all of the MA’O interns, our team lead a second workshop. We played the “Are You Heat Ready?” to discuss the impacts of increasing temperatures in the community. Following our discussion, we participated in a hana activity where we landscaped the garden area.
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Mālama Pūpūkea-Waimea
Date: April 9th 2022
At Mālama Pūpūkea-Waimea our team led North Shore community members in playing “Are You Sea-Level Wise?” to discuss the impacts of rising sea-levels in the community. Following our discussion, we participated in a hana activity where we planted ʻahuʻawa seedlings.
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Kaʻala Farm
Date: April 16th, 2022
At Kaʻala Farm, our team led community members in playing “Are You Heat Ready?” to discuss the impacts of increasing temperatures in the community. Following our discussion, we participated in a hana activity where we pulled weeds from their loʻi.
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Mālama Loko Ea Foundation
Date: May 21st, 2022
At Mālama Loko Ea, our team led North Shore community members in playing “Are You Sea-Level Wise?” to discuss the impacts of rising sea-levels in the community. Following our discussion, we participated in a hana activity where we built a portion of the fishpond wall together.