State’s Climate Change ‘Action Plan’: Business-As-Usual For Energy Sector With its extensive developed coastal areas, unique and threatened terrestrial ecosystems, and vast coral reefs, Hawai`i is surely as vulnerable as anywhere else on Earth to the effects of global warming … Continued
Climate Change, and Response To It, Could Affect Islands’ Water Supplies For islands, a reliable source of drinking water defines what is habitable and what is not. In Hawai`i, most drinking water sources are underground lenses of buoyant freshwater that … Continued
New Rent Policy For Non-Profits Is Sent Back For Fine Tuning The Board of Land and Natural Resources has decided its new policy on lease rents for non-profit corporations needs a it of fine tuning. The policy was adopted just … Continued
What Natural Area Reserves are to state land, Natural Area Partnerships are to privately owned land: those areas where the natural resource values are so high and rare that they warrant the highest levels of protection the state can offer. … Continued
Ray Chuan’s memory of September 20, 1996, has not faded with time. That was the day when, just before noon, a gleaming, white, 440-foot cruise ship glided into Hanalei Bay and set anchor. No one in the community had been … Continued
The U.S. Army has withdrawn its proposal to install an irrigation system at the Pohakuloa Training Area on the island of Hawai`i to water new outplantings of native plants in an enclosed area at Kipuka `Alala, where a decade ago … Continued
The Army has disclosed that it intends to complete an environmental impact statement for the Multi-Purpose Range Complex at the Pohakuloa Training Area. Under terms of the settlement of a lawsuit filed a decade ago, the facility, constructed in the … Continued
Were it not for a little-noticed provision in the 1998 Defense Appropriations Bill, chances are good that the state’s preparations for a bull market in cruise ship traffic would be less focused and urgent. The act contains a section called … Continued
The Caribbean holds 46 percent of the international cruise market. Like Hawai`i, it is experiencing an economic slump. Agriculture, once the Caribbean’s economic mainstay, has not been a force in decades for most islands. The largest economic engine in the … Continued
“What kind of farmers are we? Do we want to distinguish ourselves from other farmers?” Ben Sadeghi asks as he walks his small, family-run Kamuela dairy farm on the Big Island. Those “other farmers” he is referring to are some … Continued