We are a group of concerned citizens fostering a secure energy future for Kauai. The group was established three years ago with the encouragement of State Rep. Mina Morita and the national Apollo Alliance, whose mission is to bring energy independence to the US within a decade. Our dependence on fossil fuels, imported from around the globe, has become a debilitating addiction, a motivation for the invasion of other countries, a burden to our national economy, and devastation to our global environment. Kaua`i is especially vulnerable. From our tourist-based jet-fuel economy, to our already costly electricity, to the food we eat and the products we buy, we depend precariously on cheap oil. The consequences of our unrestrained use of fossil fuel are only beginning to be felt environmentally with our polluted air and water, acid rain, and accelerating climate change. For the benefit of our children and ourselves and the life of the land, it is imperative that we look again to our own aina to give us what is needed to sustain life.