At the April 3rd “Green Drinks” networking mixer, the Sustainability Association of Hawaii (SAH) officially relaunched their green business organization. Originally established back in 2008, the SAH has been re-energized by a new Board...
Keith Rollman, Honolulu Environmental News Examiner
Honolulu, May 27, 2011--The city held a press event timed to synchronize with today's Lahaina Noon. With the sun exactly overhead, and Isamu Noguchi's Sky Gate casting a perfectly centered round shadow, Mayor Carlise...
Keith Rollman, Honolulu Environmental News Examiner
Automobiles in Hawaii are either recycled here or crushed and shipped to offshore recyclers. Hawaii's cars, like those elsewhere, contain valuable scrap metal and approximately 75% of the automobile by weight is salvaged and sold as scrap...
Keith Rollman, Honolulu Environmental News Examiner
Mayor Carlisle announced yesterday that rail transit contracts valued at close to $1 billion were awarded to Ansaldo Honolulu and Kiewit Infrastructure West. Ansaldo won the contract for building the rail cars and control systems ($574 million),...
Keith Rollman, Honolulu Environmental News Examiner
Dear Consumers: A disturbing trend has come to our attention. You, the people, are thinking more about health, and you're starting to do something about it. This cannot continue. Sure, there's always been talk of health in America. We often encourage it. The thing is, we only want you to think about and talk about health in a certain way--equating […]
Mystery spots: In southwestern Africa's Namib Desert, the lack of rainfall keeps vegetation sparse. Yet in some areas, mysterious rings of grass with bare centers appear and thrive. Now scientists have discovered these so-called fairy circles are indeed created by wee little creatures--termites. [More]
Climate change is already melting the Arctic, queering weather and threatening food supplies. So who's paying the price for all these global warming impacts? [More]
A deadly but critically endangered snake, one of the world's rarest birds and a heavily guarded flower are among the endangered species in the news this week. A New Snake with a Sad Story: A gorgeous but extremely dangerous new snake species has been discovered in Honduras . The new palm pit viper has been named Bothriechis guifarroi in honor of assassi […]
[caption id="attachment_3925" align="alignright" width="448" caption="Curious bush-crow foraging"] [/caption]As time goes on and as I had expected might be the case, the Bush-crows continue to surprise and perplex me both in their character and peculiarity. This is hardly surprising, however, considering the historic a […]
Protecting South America's Crown of Biodiversity by Anne-Marie Hodge : Visiting a rainforest can be an exercise in challenged expectations. Everyone knows that rainforests are full of life: they teem with species, act as stages for unimaginably intricate food webs, and provide refuge for rare and even undiscovered organisms that exist nowhere else in th […]
On a rooftop in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood, two students are collecting soil samples from boxes planted with species from two native plant communities: Hempstead Plains, which are grasses belonging to a prairie community originally found on Long Island, and Rocky Summit grasslands,which grow on the tops of mountains and ridges throughout southern N […]