Climate Change Will Caron Climate Change Will Caron

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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Environmentalism Will Caron Environmentalism Will Caron

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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Environmentalism Will Caron Environmentalism Will Caron

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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Colonialism Will Caron Colonialism Will Caron

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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Environmentalism Will Caron Environmentalism Will Caron

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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Environmentalism Will Caron Environmentalism Will Caron

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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Militarism Will Caron Militarism Will Caron

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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Economy Will Caron Economy Will Caron

Final Cut

When we have money to fund tax credits for powerful film studios, but no money to invest in tax credits for our keiki, the lines between fictional exploitation and the dismal reality of life start to feel blurred. Are we not, in fact, living The White Lotus?

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Public Health Will Caron Public Health Will Caron

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.

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Democracy Will Caron Democracy Will Caron

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.

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Militarism Will Caron Militarism Will Caron

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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