Get yourself out and about to work off that holiday feasting: You can weed, pick up branches, plant, water and fertilize native plants for the Makiki Watershed Awareness Initiative forest restoration project. Bring long pants, long-sleeved shirt, shoes or boots, gloves, insect repellent, water and lunch; families welcome; 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday; meet at the Makiki forestry baseyard, above the new Hawai'i Nature Center (from Makiki Street, take a left onto Makiki Heights Drive; the area entrance is before the first hairpin turn); 973-9782.

SAVE THE PLANET

GET DECKED OUT IN NATURE

Jewelry is a statement of individual style. It can also be a way of communicating personal beliefs, such as concern for the environment, like many designers whose work appears in the Honolulu Academy of Arts' gift shop. Dutch artist Inten Hoek collects shells on South American beaches and handpaints them as bracelets. Gabriela Lescano of Argentina takes chaguar, a plant with long, strong fibers, and peels, pounds and washes them, then dyes them with roots, fruits and leaves. She creates necklaces combining the chaguar with sterling silver to engaging effect.

— Paula Rath

FINAL WORD

"(Children) come into this world so pure. You want to keep them that way."

"Gossip Girl" star Kelly Rutherford | who found that parenthood spurred eco-consciousness