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.
Electric Vehicles of All Sizes Are Beginning to Disrupt Big Oil
The world’s oil companies are taking a hit due to the early adoption of electric modes of transportation and their increasing popularity. A recent Bloomberg study indicates that EVs are removing around one million barrels per day of oil consumed around the world. Although this figure is only 1% of the 100 million barrels per […]
Don’t Expect a COVID-19 Virus Vaccine, anytime soon
First published in the Guardian, UK, May 22, 2020 Why might a vaccine fail? Earlier this week, England’s deputy chief medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam said the words nobody wanted to hear: “We can’t be sure we will get a vaccine.” Vaccines are simple in principle, but complex in practice. The ideal vaccine protects against infection, […]
A post-pandemic bedtime tale that has captured the hearts of millions
Tomos Roberts, London based filmmaker, released on YouTube, “The Great Realisation”. It has been viewed tens of millions of times, and since translated independently into multiple languages, including Arabic, Hebrew, German, Spanish, French, Italian and Russian. Set in an unspecified future, the poem looks back on pre-pandemic life and imagines a “great realization” sparked by […]
Coronavirus: 21st Century Pandemic – BREAKING NEWS
US has three months to rebuild medical supplies stockpile before Second COVID-19 Wave Hits Last month, Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, issued a candid warning (April 22 ) in a Washington Post interview. A simultaneous flu and coronavirus outbreak next fall and winter “will actually be even more difficult […]