UH Better Tomorrow Series: “Islands, History, Future: Solutions from Polynesia for a World in Crisis”

Professors Beamer and Vitousek, along with Te Marie Tau, are the editors of an important new research collection, Islands and Culture: How Pacific Islands Provide Paths toward Sustainability (Yale, 2022). A Justice on New Zealand’s Supreme Court, Joe Williams, notes that the book seeks to bring together Western and Indigenous knowledge of the Pacific to map a path to the future, “a path by which our Mother the Earth and all of her descendants may yet thrive.”

Free and open to the public. 
Valet and garage parking available for a fee.

Register here.

The Better Tomorrow Speaker Series is a joint venture of Hawai‘i Community Foundation, Kamehameha Schools, and the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Series sponsors include the Ulupono Initiative, Scholars Strategy Network, the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), and Outrigger Resorts.