SELECTED essays & ARTICLES
BOOKS
When writers encourage people to visit a place, no matter how conscious those visitors are, the impact on the environment magnifies. I wondered, was there a way to go beyond even the low-impact approach of ecotourism and truly give back to these places?
The answer led me to write the book Preserving Paradise: Opportunities in Volunteering for Hawai‘i’s Environment (Island Heritage Publishing, 2008) and I created the website www.preservehawaii.org, where potential volunteers could find out the weekly happenings of over 100 Hawai‘i environmental organizations. In 2009, the book won a merit award for Best Travel Guide from the North American Travel Journalists Association (NATJA).
I then developed Preserve Hawai‘i, a nonprofit outreach program to share Hawai‘i volunteering information with 300+ leaders of youth, the visitor industry, and businesses. In 2013, I began collaborating with the Hawai‘i Conservation Alliance—their site Conservation Connections has now taken over Preserve Hawai‘i’s role as a comprehensive resource for volunteer project listings in the Hawaiian Islands.
To see press coverage of the original book and nonprofit program, please click on the journal names below:
