Diary

Time 4 U 2 evacu8

tsunami warning
by

tsunami warning / As local emergency-response planners assess how Oahu residents got information and instructions during last month’s tsunami warning, Hawaii State Civil Defense is moving forward with an opt-in warning system that would send emergency alerts via text message to Oahu… [»Read]


Back off, veggies

public beach accessways
by

public beach accessways / House lawmakers passed a bill aimed at stopping private landowners from planting vegetation that encroaches onto public beaches. While supporters applaud the bill’s intent, they question how it will be enforced and whether the definition of shoreline, which now favors… [»Read]


We love Lucie

Lucie Cheng
by

Lucie Cheng / Publishing a work that ends up becoming required reading for budding minds is an academic’s dream. For Lucie Cheng, who passed away Jan. 27 in Taipei at the age of 70, the book Labor Immigration Under Capitalism, co-authored with Edna Bonacich, along with several… [»Read]


Sleep on it

HONOLULU HALE
by

HONOLULU HALE / Among the many human endeavors either expressly prohibited or requiring a special permit in Honolulu city parks: fixing a surfboard, having a meeting, throwing a golf ball, washing a car, sailing a model boat and playing “musical instruments which are limited to two octaves… [»Read]


Hemp day

SB 2450
by

SB 2450 / With the state facing a $1.2 billion budget shortfall, Maui Sen. J. Kalani English figured the timing could be right this session to ease up on marijuana. After all, his bill to decriminalize possession of less than an ounce of marijuana is expected to save the state about… [»Read]


‘Lough blow

Furlough Friday / This is the first regular five-day school week for Hawaii public school students since the week of September 28, 2009. [»Read]


Ocean commotion

Ocean Policy Task Force Public Meeting
Comes with video
by

Ocean Policy Task Force Public Meeting / 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]


Taking the LEED

by

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]


Local moolelo

by

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]


Environment

Green day

Hawaii Clean Energy Day
Comes with video
by

Hawaii Clean Energy Day / 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]


The money tree

by

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]


Books

Of malama and mayhem

Wayfinding Through the Storm
by

Wayfinding Through the Storm / 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]