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.
Edward O Wilson; the real Ant Man
…his insights will be missed Edward O Wilson, a US naturalist known to some as the “modern-day Darwin”, died on Sunday at the age of 92 in Massachusetts. Alongside the British naturalist David Attenborough, Wilson was considered one of the world’s leading authorities on natural history and conservation. Wilson had warned many times that humans […]
COP 26: What was accomplished?
In what many consider COP 26 as humanity’s moment for world leaders to correct a dangerous planetary course, national climate pledges are too weak to avoid catastrophic global warming. Most countries are on track to miss them anyway. The global effort to combat climate change boils down to this: Moving forward; or business-as usual and damn […]
Going All Electric Takes Flight, and breaks speed record
Just two months after its maiden flight, Rolls-Royce’s “Spirit of Innovation” has hit a top speed of 387.4 MPH, tentatively smashing the speed record for electric airplanes. It also claimed the top speed of 345.4 MPH over a 3 kilometer (1.86 mile) course and lowest time to a 3,000 meter (9,843 feet) altitude (202 seconds). The records […]
Editorial – Hawaii County’s Energy Future
Historically, Hawaii County government has been mostly absent on the subject of energy, leaving such matters to HECO (HELCO) and to state’s regulators and legislators. Most of the island’s mayors have historically had other agenda priorities that generally do not include energy. An exception to this policy path came when the island’s former mayor Billy […]