At first, Hawaii folks were incredulous. How could the Islands possibly be excluded from a presidential initiative aimed at saving the oceans? “Have you forgotten that Hawaii is one big fishery?” wrote Marjorie Bonar of the Maui Coastal Land Trust on a Web site… [»Read]
This week, the Nature Conservancy’s Nuuanu Street headquarters were certified as having meet the “green” standard established by the U.S. Green Building Council, making the Wing Wo Tai building the first exsiting building in the Islands to win the coveted LEED–it… [»Read]
Why are supermarkets filled with avocados from California and mangoes from Mexico when these fruits are literally falling, uneaten, from our island’s trees? Why is it so hard to find local beef when Parker Ranch on Big Island is one of the largest cattle ranches in the… [»Read]
Hawaii Clean Energy Day came to life last Saturday at the University of Hawaii –Manoa’s Kennedy Theatre. The event was the work of the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative (HCEI), a partnership of the State of Hawaii and the U.S. Department of Energy. HCEI promotes… [»Read]
For the second year in a row, proponents and opponents of genetically modified crops have fought their way to no action in the Hawaii State Legislature. Last year, a bill to ban genetically modified taro and coffee died after GMO proponents attached a “preemptive”… [»Read]
Wayfinding Through the Storm Gavan Daws and Na Leo o Kamehameha, Watermark Publishing, 384 pages, $24.95 Ten years ago last week, a Honolulu judge ordered the removal of Bishop Estate trustees Dickie Wong, Henry Peters, Gerard Jervis and Lokelani Lindsey and accepted… [»Read]
Early on March 28, 35-year-old Joseph Peneueta was gunned down in Chinatown, near the corner of River and Pauahi streets. The brazenness of the crime—in which two men got out of a car, unloaded with assault rifles, then returned to their vehicle—coupled with… [»Read]
As the state Legislature hammers out the final details of a bill banning genetically modified (GM) taro, events are unfolding at the national level that could render moot the contentious local debate over altering a plant that many Hawaiians consider sacred. About three-quarters… [»Read]
Just a minute or so down the road from the bustle of Restaurant Row is a four-month-old warehouse full of old goods and young, energetic people. Welcome to Re-use Hawaii, a “home deconstruction” (as opposed to demolition) crew that dismantles commercial… [»Read]
Last month at the State Capitol, Gov. Linda Lingle helped announce the signing of a new private agreement between Hawaiian Electric Industries, Massachusetts-based wind developer First Wind and landowner Castle & Cooke. Dubbed the “Big Wind” agreement, the compact… [»Read]
With perfect weather, lush greenery and a pride in the ‘aina seen few other places, how could one not think of Hawaii as an ideal place to cultivate the freshest fish, grow the most abundant flowers and produce the best-fed and treated farm animals?… [»Read]
“Where’s the Surf Room?” “Where are the chandeliers?” “What happened to the old coconut trees?” “Where’s the pink?!” Bewildered and disappointed might safely characterize local reaction to the much-ballyhooed unveiling… [»Read]
A conveniently vague way to describe Chinatown is to say that it has character. It is colorful, filled with diverse people and alive—for better or worse—at all hours of the night. Chinatown is buzzing with energy, brimming with creativity, seedy after nightfall… [»Read]
Conservationists say Hawaii will lose millions of dollars in federal and private matching money for important agricultural, conservation and cultural heritage protection projects if House Bill 1741 becomes law. The bill, introduced by Speaker Calvin Say, would dramatically… [»Read]
Students at Makaha Elementary School made a solemn pilgrimage to Hoa ‘Aina O Makaha (Land Shared In Friendship) to view the remains of the center’s traditional Hawaiian hale charred by what officials are calling a category-four premeditated… [»Read]
