Hawai’i Today
Explore with us the current events, both global and local, that impact life in Hawai’i Today. “In depth” analysis of the challenges and potential solutions are addressed, with a focus on activating community solutions that will nurture and sustain a lifestyle unique to all who live in Hawai’i.
Super El Niño Event Underway – what’s in store for Hawaii’s moderate climate?
A powerful El Niño already beginning to roil weather around the world may push the monthly global average temperature past 2C of warming for the first time on record. Scientists predict Earth’s current climate pattern this year is being supercharged by extreme weather events and which are now pushing global temperatures to record highs. In […]
The Cost of an Unchecked Presidency
Escalating costs, shrinking weapons inventories, and misuse of aging Navy, Army, and Air Force assets are the new norm of America’s defense establishment. Driven into unnecessary conflicts by President Trump Administration’s shoot-from-the-hip foreign military misadventures — the costs of such risky policies and unfounded foreign engagements continue to rise. The questions are who pays, how […]
An Economic Disruption Hawaii Cannot Escape
Predictions for the next major economic downturn are currently split between those anticipating a near-term correction and those forecasting a longer-term structural crisis. What we can expect when the next financial crisis hits? It is hard to tell. But Hawaii’s historic economy continues to teeter back and forth between a narrowly defined two-sided economy, one […]
Trump’s Attempt to Crush Clean Energy; not going as planned
Donald Trump has wielded the full might of his administration to crush America’s progress and leadership in Clean and Renewable Energy advancements and deployments. What Trump has falsely called Wind and Solar energy markets as a “scam” and “stupid”, an opinion without foundation, defies a growing market reality, and equally important denies the proven energy […]