Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 26, Number 2, 1 February 2009 — Glick Sierra Club Chair [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Glick Sierra Club Chair

Office of Hawaiian Affairs Eeonomie Development Hale Director Mark Glick has been elected chairman of the Executive Conunittee of the Sierra Club Hawai'i Chapter. The Executive Conunittee is the chapter's statewide board of directors, and eaeh voting Executive Committee member is elected to

two-year terms by the statewide membership of the Sierra Club. "I plan on working with the rest of the Executive Committee to eontinue our focus on issues such as doing our part in Hawai'i to reduce greenhouse gases, advocating for policies to move Hawai'i quicker and more completely towards energy efficiency and elean energy sources, and protecting land use and environmental and cultural review laws," Glick said. Glick said under new state Director Robert Harris, the Sierra Club also intends to halanee its historical and successful role at the Legislature with a greater focus on building membership and eommunity service via its service trips and hikes, something that many people have long associated with the Sierra Club. "For this legislative session, I think we'll work harder to build a broader eoalihon base to support structural changes at the Puhlie Utilities Conunission and among the utilities to introduce more renewable energy and other elean fonns of energy to replace imported oil," he said.

OHA Eeonomie Development Hole Director Mark Glick, center, hos been elected chairman of the Sierro Club Howoi'i Chapte r's executive committee, whieh is the chapter's statewide bourd of directors. In January, he und other members of the Sierru Club were hosted by Acting Park Superintendent Ron Nagata, on right, for u service project to remove invasive species in the southwestern portion of Haleakalō cruter, turgeting the Heterothecu grandiflora (the Californiū telegroph plont) ond Plantago lonceoloto (norrow leof plontūin). Cold daytime temperatures necessitated hats and jackets, but it was nothing to compored to the below-freezing temperatures ot night. - Photo: Courtesy of Maik Glick