It’s a disease that quietly continues to ruin the health and lives of Big Island residents each year. Despite the debilitating effects of rat lungworm and some awareness campaigns by the state Department of Health and community groups, those who have been personally...
Last week, a constituent shared with me a very special February 1938 issue of Popular Mechanics. Inside the tan pages and tattered edges, along with other articles on the cutting edge technologies of its time, is an article on hemp, the “New Billion Dollar Crop.” With...
Satsang With Jon Bernie This intimate weeklong gathering at the Hui Ho’olana Retreat Center on Molokai, Hawaii, will be be a unique opportunity to explore the space of openness, and allow unconditional love to deepen, expand and flourish. Limited to 18 participants,...
The failure of a grid-connected storage system at a solar farm in Hawaii is part of the learning process the US island state is undergoing to integrate more PV using storage, according to analyst Dean Frankel at Lux Research. A so-called “accelerated capacity fade”...
The US state of Hawaii is using selective breeding to win the war against the destructive varroa mite, which is crippling honey bee populations around the world. The overall significance of honeybees is often overlooked, but keeping up natural bee populations is...
