Kanu Hawaii offers participants a chance to blog about ways to go green this holiday season. Five are selected each week for an autographed copy Jack Johnson’s “This Warm December: A Brushfire Holiday” CD until the end of the month.
There will also be drawings for an “Eat Local” package, which includes a three-month subscription from Oahu Fresh, gift certificates to Town restaurant and Tamashiro Market, and “A Dash of Aloha” cookbook.
Last year, Kokua Hawaii Foundation set up free gift-wrapping stations at Ala Moana Shopping Center manned by nearly 600 volunteers who used fabric, old calendars and posters, and leftover reams of paper and card stock donated by Hagadone Printing Co. that volunteers hand-stenciled and decorated.
A total of 1,464 people participated in the campaign, according to McKinney, with nearly 300 committing to recycling at holiday parties and using biodegradable plates instead of paper or plastic. More than 300 donated to charities or volunteered.
Kokua estimates the campaign helped keep 13 tons of waste out of landfills, saved enough paper to spare 215 trees and contributed nearly 1,000 hours of service to local charities.
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