Dry Wai`anae Explores Its Wet History Ordinary citizens flush up to six gallons of valuable drinking water down their toilets with each use and soak their hungry lawns with dozens more, oblivious to the mounting crises that such waste poses … Continued
Former Board Member’s Testimony Throws HELCO Case Into Turmoil The decade-long efforts of HELCO, the Big Island electrical utility, to expand its Keahole generating facility are more and more taking on the traits of a soap opera. People who have … Continued
Curbside Recycling Makes a Comeback in Kailua It’s 8 o’clock on a sunny Wednesday morning in Kailua, and I’m sitting on a bench outside Kalapawai Market – a historic green-and-white, Mom-‘n’-Pop store fronting the beach park. Half of Kailua congregates … Continued
The tug of war over water on O`ahu continues. The transfer last November of an `Ewa water well permit from Campbell Estate to the Board of Water Supply (BWS) has raised arguments by windward farmers and activists that the estate … Continued
Hunters Are Shot Down in Appeal Of Federal Court’s Palila Decision For the last two years, a group of sheep hunters on the Big Island have been working to overturn a federal court’s order requiring the state of Hawai`i to … Continued
Across the islands, the cultivation of taro is experiencing a resurgence that addresses far more than the material needs of those who plant or process the crop. You won’t find the numbers reflected in state agricultural statistics. Many of the … Continued
In recent weeks, floods in Europe, dead or dying corals in the Indian Ocean, rising temperatures and melting ice packs have all been laid at the door of manmade changes in Earth’s atmosphere, brought about largely as a result of … Continued
The `i`iwi may be the best known and best loved of all Hawai`i’s native forest birds. Boasting bright scarlet plumage and along, curved bill, it is easily recognized and still found on Kaua`i, Maui, and Hawai`i. But the bird may … Continued
Kaua`i: The Retreat From Renewables Kaua`i is not the energy producer it used to be. It has a few hydro-electric power plants that support agriculture on the island’s west side, but the once abundant bagasse (sugar-cane waste) that used to … Continued