{"content":[{"text":"Life Net - www.lifenetnature.org \n 45A Welina Place \n Makawao, HI 96768","bbox":{"left":0.313529,"top":0.15689,"width":0.37254400000000004,"height":0.05064099999999999}},{"text":"January 22, 2009","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.221788,"width":0.156918,"height":0.023648000000000002}},{"text":"General Plan Action Committee \n Maui, Hawaii","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.262543,"width":0.294198,"height":0.043944999999999956}},{"text":"Testimony on the Maui Island Plan","bbox":{"left":0.338824,"top":0.323454,"width":0.32214,"height":0.023648000000000002}},{"text":"Dear GPAC Members:","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.36406,"width":0.209889,"height":0.023648000000000002}},{"text":"Soon you will be making decisions of potentially historic significance regarding \n the new Maui Island Plan. It is within your power to launch a proud and lasting \n environmental legacy for Maui Island, one in tune with that essential goal of \n “productive harmony” between people and the environment, called for in our \n National Environmental Policy Act nearly 40 years ago.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.404815,"width":0.7331779999999999,"height":0.10483899999999996}},{"text":"What better place than Maui to demonstrate American “exceptionalism” to the rest \n of the United States, and indeed the world, with regard to the serious \n environmental challenges we face? You have the power to take those great small \n steps that are being made by many enlightened citizens here – and turn them into \n giant steps by the entire island community!","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.526761,"width":0.7577480000000001,"height":0.10483900000000002}},{"text":"We see remarkable efforts toward clean, renewable energy, from solar panels on \n private roof tops to a row of wind turbines on West Maui. Yet we lack a collective \n pathway for achieving energy self-sufficiency and reducing our green house gas \n pollution to a level consistent with the kind of world we want for our children.","bbox":{"left":0.117624,"top":0.648707,"width":0.7542599999999999,"height":0.084542}},{"text":"We see local residents and farmers growing healthy foods for local use. Yet we see \n vast agricultural lands used for growing exports, and our markets filled with foods \n from many thousands of miles away.","bbox":{"left":0.11767,"top":0.750196,"width":0.7605009999999999,"height":0.06440299999999999}},{"text":"We are concerned about the plight of our coral reefs, and express words of \n commitment to protect them. Yet we rush ahead with development detached from \n much needed institutional and governing mechanisms for resolving huge problems,","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.831546,"width":0.762473,"height":0.06424399999999997}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}