Please join our campaign to Simplify the Holidays

The holiday season is upon us! Kanu Hawaii in partnership with the Kokua Hawaii Foundation is asking all of us to consider "simplifying the holidays." Let's use this time of both great hope and great challenges to refocus on the season's deeper values of joy, peace, and ohana (family) by making holiday choices that support and nurture our homes, our communities, our planet—and family budgets, too!

Join this campaign by making one or more of a special list of commitments to change our approach to the holidays. Some of the commitments include: using a locally grown or potted Christmas tree, giving edible gifts or plants, reusing or using alternatives to traditional wrapping paper, and starting eco-friendly traditions such as picking up litter while caroling.

If you already do some of these things, terrific! Will you recommit to them and add on a few more?

If you have never tried any of these ways to simplify the holidays, we encourage you to make this season a first. At both of our organizations, we firmly believe that change begins with us. If we want more compassionate communities, a more resilient economy, and a more sustainable environment, we ourselves have to take the first steps, even if they may be difficult or feel a little awkward at first.

As we roll through the holidays, Kanu will send out tips, information and encouragement to challenge each of us to make a change in our routines. Please share these commitments with your friends and ask them to join the campaign as well. With enough initiative and encouragement, we can help create a tipping point for how we approach the holidays -- to live more consistently with the values that they stand for.

The campaign page is located at:
http://www.kokuahawaiifoundation.org/community/simplifytheholidays/

Check it out today and pass it along to your friends. Thanks for your ongoing commitment!