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.
Solar Energy, Criticized by Trump, Claims Big U.S. Gain in 2024
According to a new industry report released this week, the addition of solar energy capacity to the national grid system in 2024 represented the greatest gain from any single energy source (clean and dirty energy combined) in more than two decades – thank you President Biden. The report, produced by the Solar Energy Industries Association […]
Trump Cuts Harm Agricultural, Science, and Consumers Pay the Bill
In the first days of the new administration, President Trump has suspended various congressional-approved Federal funded reporting systems linked to climate science and environmental protection. Even long established NASA and NOAA reporting assets covering climate reporting in general, and more specifically direct global heating impacts and prediction have been targeted by Trump. Accompanying these sweeping […]
Solar – Wind – Batteries are less costly, more efficient than Carbon Capture
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology has been promoted for the past 5 years as the fossil fuel energy sector’s Moon shot. Its promise has been to address global heating and enable a lesser form of global clean energy solutions needed now to get humans off an addiction to oil, gas and coal in various […]
‘This is a coup’: Trump and Musk’s purge is cutting more than costs, say experts
Slashing staff, disabling entire agencies, the newly empowered Trump administration is lacerating the very structures of US democracy … Trump and Elon Musk’s radical drive to slash billions of dollars in annual federal spending with huge job and regulatory cuts is spurring charges that they have made illegal moves while undercutting congressional and judicial powers, […]