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.
A Guide to Sustainability for Hawai’i
Sustainability and Resiliency A path to Sustainability and Resiliency (often thought of as separate problems to be solved) are both in fact linked. Each require both the state and country governments to undertake coordinated policy changes, beginning with the substantial reduction in a statewide dependency on a fragile supply chain made up of locally replaceable […]
Hawai’i – a Vision for the Future
Imagine an abundant green and nature-balanced island state, freed from its tourist dollar dependencies, powered by its home grown clean energy assets, sustained by a self-sufficient economy, and feed by its island-grown organic agriculture. It’s a Hawaiian dream that can’t be brought or ordered online, and it’s a reality yet to be realized. Hawaii’s unique history, […]
Hawaii’s at-Risk Residents Told to Wait (patiently)
Breaking News Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s highest-ranking infectious-disease expert, struck a hopeful tone about vaccine availability in the coming months, predicting Thursday that there could be an “open season” on doses by April. “By the time we get to April, that will be what I would call, for better wording, ‘open season,’ namely, virtually everybody and […]
Senate Bill 243, a Wake-up Call for Hawaii’s Clean Energy Ambitions
previous published in ililani media The Biden administration plans to decarbonize the U.S. power sector by 2035. Hawaii plans to decarbonize its electric grid by 2045. The Hawaii Legislature proposes to tax rather than to ban fossil fuel, as this will send a message to the marketplace, rather than imposing sustainability on the out-of-control fossil […]