Healthy Planet 4/14/22

Hi Everyone,

Tomorrow on Healthy Planet I will be interviewing Dr. Sophie Whoriskey at 1pm on ThinkTechHawaii.com! She is the vet at the Marine Mammal Center on the Big Island. She will be talking about monk seals and the other conservation work that is done at the Marine Mammal Center. It is an episode not to miss!

If you missed the last episode about the Wellness Center at Tzu-Chi Foundation in Honolulu, Hawaii, check it out here:

https://vimeo.com/694724048

Lomi Review

I was very excited when I saw this new composter (Lomi) able to compost bioplastics. I guess the best situation is to not use bioplastics at all, but I thought that this might be an alternative. Here is my review:

Healthy Planet 3/3/22

Stay tuned for Healthy Planet, streaming on thinktechhawaii.com, this week! My guest this week is Darlene Loo-McDowell of Sharing the Butterfly Experience. Darlene is a butterfly rancher. She raises monarch butterflies for special occasions. She has a wealth of knowledge about butterflies, so on Thursday we are going to find out more about butterflies ! If you would like to ask questions, please tune in live on thinktechhawaii.com at 1pm on Thursday!

For those of you who missed the last episode with Cathy Louise-Broda, here is a link:

Growing Sponges

At my yoga class, there was a seed bank. It was small and there were not many contributors but someone put in loofah. I did not know this was a vegetable. I only heard of it being a sponge, and I always thought it grew in the ocean. Anyway, I decided to grow it, and I did more research in the process. Now I am making sponges from it! These sponges are great. They are compostable. There is no waste. You can also eat loofah. I haven’t tried this yet, but it needs to be done when loofah is young. Here is my video about loofah:

Healthy Planet 2/17/22

Hi Everyone, this Thursday, February 17, from 1-1:30pm, I will be having guest, Cathy-Louise Broda, of Purple Yoga Hawaii on Healthy Planet at ThinkTechHawaii.com:

She will be talking about Finding Your Core! Don’t miss this episode!

If you missed the last episode with Dr. Ruth Heidrich, here’s the link:

https://vimeo.com/673444251