Michael Levine

The long road to paradise is littered with abandoned ideals. But has Earth Day, which celebrates its 40th anniversary today, lost its way? The New York Times has an interesting look at how the environmental holiday has progressed from its 1970 anti-corporate, grassroots, teach-in beginnings to today’s slick marketing campaigns that exploit the desire to […]

For those of you who don’t know much about Hoopili, you will soon. West Oahu has become the newest battleground in the fight between people who want to preserve farmland and those who want to use it for homes. The Hoopili debate is heating up. The Star-Bulletin today published a commentary from Ewa Beach resident […]

The Pacific garbage patch isn’t alone. That swirling mass of refuse between Hawaii and California has a sibling in the Atlantic Ocean, according to the Associated Press. The miles-wide patch of small, nearly invisible plastic is a serious threat to seabirds, fish and marine mammals, officials say. They speculate that up to 80 percent of […]

I’ve been looking into the impact of the Hawaii Supreme Court‘s Turtle Bay decision. The court essentially ruled that just because an Environmental Impact Statement has been approved, that doesn’t mean the approval lasts forever. The Turtle Bay EIS was 25 years old, and conditions in the surrounding environment had changed enough, the court said, […]

As a small island chain in the middle of a vast ocean, Hawaii has limited natural resources. But the demands we put on the land are great. If Oahu were its own state, it’d be the most densely populated in the country. We have to make the most with what we have. Like all of […]