by Stu E.D. | Jul 20, 2015 | Hawaii, Legal News, World News
TPP negotiators will be on Maui at the end of the month, hoping to bring the deal to a conclusion: What history will be made? The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a massive international treaty being negotiated, in secret, by 12 Pacific Rim countries, side-by-side...
by Stu E.D. | Jul 3, 2015 | Farming, Food, Hawaii, Sustainability
Hawaii imports 90 percent of what it eats at great environmental cost. Now ag activists seek to make ‘grown here, not flown here’ a reality. HONOLULU—When my Airbus touched down at Honolulu International Airport, I was one of 30,843 people to arrive in Hawaii on a...
by Stu E.D. | Jun 18, 2015 | Hawaii, Oahu
Honolulu has always faced homelessness, but the city is finally taking action and doing something incredible for the homeless people in the area. Honolulu-based architecture company, Group 70 International, is working on putting retired city buses to use in an amazing...
by Stu E.D. | Jun 18, 2015 | Ecotourism, Hawaii, Sustainability
If we limit the use of our natural resources and educate the users — including tourists — we just might be around for the long haul. The word “sustainable” is a bit of a buzzword, evoking images of wind turbines, solar panels, and barefoot hippies eating locally grown...
by Stu E.D. | Jun 9, 2015 | Hawaii, Health
Rat Lungworm Hawaii article from Malama O Puna What you need to know. Cases of eosinophilic meningitis caused by the rat lungworm parasite have risen sharply in Hawaii over the past 5 years. The parasite, a nematode (Angiostrongylus cantenosis), was carried from SE...
