Greenwashed
Nothing says climate champion like a new, 20-year fossil fuel commitment. It's Go-JERA vs Go-Green, and Gov Green is greenwashing the monster.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Snake Oil and Tin Foil
A reaction to news that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is on track to be confirmed as the Trump Administration’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, despite his utter lack of qualifications and dangerous, conspiratorial thinking around health and healthcare.
Meet The Beetles
The Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle is on Kaua‘i now, and the state isn’t doing enough to combat this and other devastating invasive pests. Our fragile ecology and our economy are both at stake.
Great Demarcations
There are always winners and losers in every proposed budget, but some of the guests at this year’s budget banquet might be consuming more than makes sense, while others could use more than breadcrumbs.
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.
Leaky Case
On the U.S. Navy’s defense against a lawsuit brought by victims of the Red Hill fuel spill catastrophe.