Every day, I’m scouring the Internet for land use and environmental news from around the state and around the world that means something for us here in Hawaii. Noteworthy today: the Army reaches out to Native Hawaiians and clean energy needs storage.
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The Army is reaching out to Native Hawaiians. Recently, a liaison was hired, a council was formed and a covenant pledging mutual respect was signed, the Associated Press reports.
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Clean energy without storage is like peanut butter without jelly. That’s the Maui News’ interesting, if over-simplistic, attempt at illustrating a complex issue.
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Funny story from West Hawaii Today over the weekend: A real estate agent says bargain property hunters are fueling a “mini land boom” in Kona, but new state home sales data is not yet available for the Big Island. In other news, your friendly neighborhood Ford dealer says now is a great time to buy a new car!
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More than a dozen volunteers chipped in to clean up the marine debris at Kauai’s Nukolii in a Surfrider Foundation event coinciding with International Surfing Day, The Garden Island reports.
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Saving electricity has already been identified as a way for businesses to reduce costs. The next big money-saver: Water.
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The U.S. Supreme Court today overturned a ban on genetically modified alfalfa resistant to Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide. In other Roundup news, the Associated Press reports that resistant weeds pose an environmental threat.
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Gov. Lingle is back in town, and one of the last things she worked on in her weeks-long trip to Asia was a memorandum that creates the Hawaii-Okinawa Partnership on Clean and Efficient Energy Development and Deployment. Here’s a photo of the guv with her Okinawan counterpart. Click for larger image
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