Islands and Cultures: How Pacific Islands Provide Paths toward Sustainability

Islands and Cultures: How Pacific Islands Provide Paths toward SustainabilityA uniquely collaborative analysis of human adaptation to the Polynesian islands, told through oral histories, biophysical evidence, and historical records Humans began to settle the area we know as Polynesia between 3,000 and 800 years ago, bringing with them material culture, including plants and animals, and ideas about societal organization, and then adapting to the specific biophysical features of the islands they discovered. The authors of this

Following the trails of Hawai‘i’s snails to explore the simultaneously biological and cultural significance of extinction

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energy and urban development

first at Kalihi Hospital on Oahu and then at Kalaupapa

Wonderfully illustrated and written

This book is aimed at ethnobotany students

and your experiences will be gathered together in one place in a structured narrative form

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ones previously known only to that island’s people

Meli Wraps are Planet-Friendly Reusable Beeswax Wraps made with Organic Cotton

but slowly added more and more designs

and friendship