Lynn Kalama Nakkim has raised horses and cattle on her Hamakua ranch since 1987. She built her first SOLAR POWERED HOME in Waikoekoe on Mud Lane in 1997, and she is a strong advocate of ALTERNATIVE ENERGY for the islands. Her new solar powered house in Pepeekeo has state of the art but economical components, and Nakkim is now a solar consultant, helping people design an energy self sufficient home in the islands. You can reach Lynn at nt22@msn.com.
Lynn grew up in Hana, Maui and Honolulu, attending Punahou School and Smith College on academic scholarships. Nakkim obtained a Masters of Education at UH Manoa in 1972, and later taught at Chaminade University and several Honolulu schools. Nakkim has also worked in the real estate field and management of rentals. She has written and produced Environmental Documentaries for KGMB TV, working with Cec Heftel, and she also wrote and directed and edited several educational documentaries on Hawiian Culture for the Hawaii State Department of Education.
Lynn Nakkim is the author of the books The Road to Hana Maui, a novel set in the 19th century, and the sequel, The Hana Rift Zone which takes the decendents of the characters in the first book into the post plantation years and age of Hippies and Hawaiian Activism and Environmental Protest.
Lynn Nakkim served on the board of direcdtors of the Friends of Hamakua during the 1990's when the community fought off a pending sale of leases of thousands of acres of state land to Oji Timber. Then and now, Nakkim feels strongly that county and state land should be offered first to local farmers and ranchers. Nakkim fought the present administration for two years trying to get officials to cancel an escrow---but she failed, and the sale of 660 acres of prime land on East Mud Lane went trhough---660 acres sold for only $1.6 million.
Lynn Nakkim has been active in politics since 1970, when she authored the first proposed Hawaii Bottle BIll, which did not pass. She also researched the second Bottle BIll as a volunteer in State Senato McMurdo's office in 1982, but Hawaii was still not ready. Lynn was Chair of Friends of the Earth, Hawaii for several years, and she was also the first chair of Hawaii League of Conservation Voters. She has been active with Life of the Land and in the 1980's she served as PR person for the Sierra Club Executive Committee. Nakkim was elected to the Manoa Neighborhood Board along with Ed Case in 1984. But then she moved to Hawaii Island in 1987, and thoough her family the Charles Boernersstill reside in Hana, Lynn has been a loyal and active citizen of East Hawaii ever since, in Ahualoa, Waikoekoe, Hilo, and Pepeekeo..
