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.
Hawaiian Electric stock plunges (story update); compounded by lawsuits and public outrage
Investors Sue Hawaiian Electric For ‘Misleading’ Them About Potential Liability For Wildfire Breaking News – Aug. 25, 2023 Hawaiian Electric faces another lawsuit in a mounting set of legal actions against the Hawaii-based utility. Latest is an investor-lawsuit which joins a growing list of lawsuits which threaten utility’s future. On Thursday, investors filed suit against Hawaiian […]
Fossil Fuel Interests; organized, powerful, influential
An Open Letter – updated I received an email earlier today from a friend, a fellow full-time Hawaii resident, and community activist. She expressed her concerns regarding a recent Wall Street Journal article, and her inability to access the full article and post a comment. She asked if I would respond to the article. As […]
Our Ocean’s Dire Message
The world’s Oceans are the hottest they have been in recorded history, and by a wide margin. A human-driven climate crisis is to blame. From the Atlantic to the Pacific to Antarctica, record water temperatures are forcing scientists to grapple with how global heating is warming the oceans, often in unpredictable and extreme ways, and […]
A Modern Day Nuclear Legacy; first the Fukushima Meltdown, now Radioactive Ocean Dumping
Japan To Dump Millions of Tons of Nuclear Wastewater: Hawaii in the crosshairs BeyondKona first reported April 24, 2021 (story link above) on Japan’s Tepco announced intentions to engage in multiple controlled releases of highly radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean, and near the site of the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster of 2011. Fukushima wastewater […]