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Heat Strokes

While global climate action is difficult to affect, we can still manage our local resources wisely. If there isn't enough water for families to cook and clean with, there shouldn't be any going to golf courses.

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Genki Fever

Honolulu loves Genki—and I don't mean the sushi. I mean tennis ball sized globs designed to release sludge-eating microbes into polluted waterways. But new research questions whether the balls work at all—or if they actually make things worse.

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Blue Spayed Shoos

What does Elvis’s love for cats have to do with Hawai‘i’s native birds? Instead of leveraging her fortune to help solve the feral cat problem, Priscilla Presley is organizing a misguided tourism boycott.

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Experts ‘R Us

The State is funding a shady PR campaign using cultural gatekeepers to convince the public that geothermal energy ventures are supported by Native Hawaiians, and even the goddess Pele herself.

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Go Fish

Instead of ensuring a future for Pacific fisheries, Kitty Simonds and WESPAC have accelerated their decline. If we don’t demand change now, the next generation may inherent an ocean stripped of its life.

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Much Huhū About Nahting

Hawaiʻi makes history as the first state to enact a green fee. Worldwide, tourists usually don’t mind paying these fees to offset their impact. But those who profit from the industry have long claimed the sky will fall as a result.

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General Disdain

From Red Hill to Hawaiʻi’s false missile alert, it becomes clearer each day the U.S. military doesn’t keep us safe. As heroic façade becomes farce, small wins, like the BLNR’s rejection of the Army’s EIS for Pōhakuloa, become possible.

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Research and Destroy

The University of Hawaiʻi wants to renew its contract to do research for the military industrial complex at a time when it has never been more clear how destructive the effects of that system are on people around the world, and on the environment itself.

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