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Honolulu Community College

Why HonCC

Sustainability

Aloha and welcome to Honolulu Community College’s sustainability page! Here you will find information on HonCC campus initiatives and activities related to sustainability, along with links to other sites useful and interesting to those committed to sustainability.

Our goal is to make this an informative resource for the entire HonCC community as we focus on our campus commitment to sustainability in educational offerings and operations.

If you have any questions, information to share, or suggestions for how the campus can improve, please get in touch with either of the HonCC Sustainability Coordinators, Michelle Nathan (mhw@hawaii.edu), Robert Silva (rsilva1@hawaii.edu), or Hsin-I Tong (hsini@hawaii.edu).

Together, we can make a difference.

View Spring 2022 Virtual Sustainability Showcase

Sustainability Courses

Honolulu Community college offers Sustainability Related and Sustainability Focused classes across multiple disciplines.

Sustainability Related (SR) – Some portion of the course content addresses sustainability terminology, knowledge, issues, and concerns.

Sustainability Focused (SF) – A course includes sustainability as a major theme of the course. A significant portion of course content is directly and explicitly related to addressing concepts of sustainability such as the social, economic and environmental dimensions, or examining an issue or topic using sustainability as a lens.

See list of Courses with S-Designation certified at Honolulu Community College

What We Do / What Can You Do

Celebrating mālama ʻāina at Honolulu Community College

Sustainability at Honolulu CC

Tropical landscape

Get in Touch

Michelle Nathan
mhw@hawaii.edu

Robert Silva
rsilva1@hawaii.edu

Hsin-I Tong
hsini@hawaii.edu

View Sustainability Newsletter

Perpetuating Sustainability at Honolulu CC

Perpetuate Sustainability at Home and in the Community

Community Service

Educate Yourself and Take Action

Degrees, Programs, Professions in Sustainability

Why Pursue a Career in Sustainability?

Individuals passionate about the environment and creating a better future should consider a career in sustainability. Professionals must also possess heightened research, analytical, and communication skills. An associate, bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral program can help students develop and hone these skills, while also introducing learners to the latest research related to sustainability. Although an associate degree in sustainability prepares graduates for some jobs, positions with better wages require a bachelor’s or master’s degree. More advanced degrees may also qualify a professional for a managerial position. As a manager, they can influence their company’s direction significantly. Excerpts taken from ‘Best Colleges’ website.

Degree Programs

Sustainability Degree And Certificate Programs In Hawai’i

Associates Degrees And Certificates
Bachelor’s Degree
Masters Degree

University of Hawai’i Environmental Research Grants and Centers

Online Sustainability Degree and Certificate Programs

Arizona State University: ASU has several online sustainability degrees.  See link

  • BA; BS in Sustainability; Business Sustainability; Sustainable Food Systems
  • Graduate Degrees: Sustainability Leadership; Sustainable Tourism; Sustainable Engineering; Biomimicry; Sustainable Food Systems
  • Certificates: Sustainable Tourism; Social Entrepreneurship and Community Development; Biomimicry; Food Policy and Sustainability Leadership; Sustainability

Sustainability Degree and Certificate Programs on the Mainland

Bachelors Degree
Masters Degree

Internship and Employment Opportunities

Kupu: Building A Brighter Future for Hawaiʻi’s Youth – Offers paid internships such as Conservation Leadership Development Progra

Sustainability Professions

Links Careers in Sustainability and Green Jobs (source: Environmental Science.org)

See Descriptions – Sustainability Careers – BestColleges

Ancestral Connections

MAUŌ: “The perpetuation of well-being.”

The Hawaiian word mauō, for sustainability, is made up of two basic words; mau, stability, unbroken continuity, and o, enduring in a heathy state. This new Hawaiian word was coined by the Hawaiian Lexicon Committee in 2016. Formerly, there was no need for the word mauō because it was a normal part of Hawaiian life. Today, it is critical that we distinguish between what is sustainable and what is not.

The Mamaka Kaiao New Words entry is: mau.ō common noun Sustainability. Comb., mau + ō.

University of Hawai’i System Commitments

Resources

Where Culture and Sustainability Meet

Articles

Books

  • Thinking Like an Island: Navigating a Sustainable Future in Hawaiʻi edited by Jennifer Chirico and Gregory S. Farley
  • Food and Power in Hawaiʻi: Visions of Food Democracy edited by Aya Hirata Kimura, Krisnawati Suryanata, Christine R. Yano, and Robert Ji-Song Ku

‘Ōlelo No’eau

ʻŌlelo Noʻeau – Hawaiian Traditional Saying Related to the Environment

State & System Strategic Plans, Policies & Measures

Several system policies and plans direct HonCC efforts to create a more sustainable campus and integrate sustainability into the curriculum. There are also dashboards and measures presented by the State and campus that indicate how we are doing in meeting goals.

State & System Strategic Plans, Policies and Measures

State of Hawai’i

UH System Office of Sustainability

Honolulu Community College

State, System and Campus Measures

State of Hawai’i Measures

State of Hawai’i Sustainability Development Goals & Measures

Open Data – State Datasets

University of Hawai’i Projects and Measures

HonCC Measurements