Here is the proposed agenda:
Day 1 “Energy”: Tours of Gateway Center & Green Power Girl animation presentation, and team building games and activities.
Afternoon campers: beach time at Pine Tree and afternoon session creating and writing GPHero characters and play and/or creating “Green Island” model cities from recycled and found objects.
Day 2 “Water”: WHEA and/or Abalone/ Cynotech- micro algae tours and beach/tide pool walk w Dr. Marah Hardt (aka Marina Del Ray).
Afternoon campers: storytelling and working on play or other optional games and activities.
Day 3 “Food”: Local farm and aquaculture talks. Chocolate making!
Afternoon campers: storytelling and working on play or other optional games and activities.
Day 4 “Culture”: Tour at Ho’ona Village on the NELHA property with local historian. Cultural/arts/crafts activities and/or ukulele play.
Afternoon campers: storytelling and working on play or other optional games and activities.
Day 5 “GPH Final Presentation”: GPHero play presentation /dress up and showing of Green Power Hero projects.
Afternoon campers: Beach time and /or other fun final activity.
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Susan Cox
Creator of Green Power Girl,
Climate Educator
Susan created, developed and implemented the Green Power Hero School energy awareness Program that has gone into hundreds of schools with over 150,000 participants. Susan has engaged stories and myths of GPG and the GPHero characters to tell the story of climate change and environmental integrity. Susan wrote, produced, and directed the stories and animation, curriculum and card game that is included in the program.
She has worked on environmental education projects for the last 20 years, having produced Earth Day events, Clean Energy Fairs and climate conferences that have garnered statewide media attention. Thousands of children participated in these projects giving students hands on activities and empowerment to handle the immense task of changing the world dependent on poisonous fossil fuels.
Susan is a graduate of UC Santa Barbara in Environmental Studies and has worked on various environmental education projects for public and private entities, including the California Coastal Commission, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, The Gas Company, Burbank Water and Power, City of Santa Monica, Global Green, the County of Hawaii and the Friends of the Natural Energy Lab, a non profit entity.
Guy Toyama- Friends of NELHA, non-profit partner
A native of Maui, Hawaii, Guy Toyama is an active member in the community in Hawaii. He is the Executive Director of Friends of NELHA (Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority) a unique educational facility for renewable energy in Hawaii. He is also very active in the community, serving on the board of directors of the Kona-Kohala Chamber of Commerce, Kanu Hawaii and presides over the Hawaii Food Manufacturers Association, as well as being active in the Kuleana Green Business Program at the Kona-Kohala Chamber. Guy received B.A. in Marketing from the University of Oregon and has more than 15 years experience in advertising, marketing and publishing. Having lived in Tokyo for 7 years, Guy is also fluent in Japanese.
Marah Hardt, PhD GPH Science Advisor
Marah J. Hardt, founder of OceanInk, is a research scientist, writer, and consultant. A coral reef ecologist by training, a former research fellow at Blue Ocean Institute, she designed innovative platforms for raising awareness about the effects of climate change on ocean ecosystems. Dr Hardt has served as a researcher, writer, and stakeholder engagement strategist, creative storyteller with a focus on ocean conservation and climate change issues. Working on a diversity of issues from freshwater conservation to the global fisheries crisis to climate change effects on sponges. Her doctoral research uniquely combined historical, archaeological and ecological analyses to expand our comprehension of the impact of fishing on coral reef ecosystems from prehistoric to modern day.
Her articles have appeared in academic and popular media, such as Yale e360, Ecology Letters, and The American Prospect. Her most recent article about ocean acidification came out in Scientific American summer 2010.
Liz Marx, Artist, Art Therapist and Chocolatier
Liz has worked with children and art spanning over 25 years. Her work with blind students at the Los Angeles school of the blind was instrumental in shaping her work with all children. Since then she has volunteered for countless campaigns and supported events with her glass art and most recently her chocolate making.
Sweet Nuit is Liz's special, good for you, raw chocolate, low glycemic coconut sugar, melted in the solar oven from local cacao beans grown on big island farms. We will make chocolate and then go to see how it is grown! Needless to say a very popular activity!