When I decided last April to run for the Maui County Council, I began a journey of discovery into county...
Category: Environment
29.072016July 29, 2016
Banned GMO wheat found in Washington
By SAFEADMINIn Environment, Farming
SEATTLE (AP) — Federal authorities say genetically modified wheat that’s banned for sale or production in the United States has...
20.072016July 20, 2016
Which Is Worse for the Planet: Beef or Cars?
By SAFEADMINIn Energy, Environment
Cars are often used as the golden standard of environmental destruction. We know that our driving is hurtful to the...
20.072016July 20, 2016
Alameda Becomes 5th County in California to Ban Fracking
By SAFEADMINIn Energy, Environment
Five counties in California have now banned fracking. Alameda County is the latest to join the list after county leaders...
20.072016July 20, 2016
Why You Should Check Your Sunscreen Label Right Now
By SAFEADMINIn Environment, Water
Personal care products like shampoo, soap, lotion and especially sunscreen are decimating coral reefs and weakening their ability to mitigate...
21.042016April 21, 2016
A&B’s Return Of East Maui Water: Generous Gesture Or Staged Event?
By SAFEADMINIn Environment, Farming, Water
Wednesday’s announcement by Alexander & Baldwin that it will permanently restore some streams for taro farms in East Maui was...
16.042016April 16, 2016
Report: Maui’s Farming Future
A new report released Monday offers ideas on how Maui could use 36,000 acres of former sugarcane land to boost...
16.042016April 16, 2016
As the sun sets on Maui sugar, we ask what the closing of A&B’s plantation means for us
By SAFEADMINIn Environment, Farming
Like most reporters in Hawaii, in the hour or so after Alexander & Baldwin’s Jan. 6 announcement that they would...
16.072015July 16, 2015
Maui County residents vote ‘Yes’ on GMO initiative
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – A ballot initiative that will impose a moratorium on the growing of genetically modified organisms in Maui...