Tag: Hawaii

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  A Look Inside How Hawaii's Plastic Bag Ban Came About

  Hawaii becomes the first state in the union to enact a ban on plastic bags at checkout counters. Sierra Club looks into how it finally came into being.

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  Hawaii Now Has Statewide Plastic Bag Ban - With Significant Loopholes

  The ban, starting in 2015, only covers plastic bags at point-of-sale, exempting a whole slew of other plastic bags with equal litter potential and equally good reusable alternatives.

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  How to Build a Tiny, Mortgage-Free Home Using Cash Only

  Living off less than $20,000 a year, a San Francisco housekeeper builds himself a tiny house in paradise.

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  Hawaii Breaks Ground On Its Biggest Wind Power Project Yet

  Once completed, the 30 turbine project will provide electricity to meet 5% of Oahu's needs.

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  Hawaii Using Smart Grid Controls to Turn Lights Off When the Wind Stops Blowing

  Hawaii is working on a pilot project using smart grid controls to balance out power loads during wind power fluctuations.

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  Ask Pablo: What Is The Greenest Booze?

  Ask Pablo answers: What's the greenest kind of booze we can drink this holiday season?

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  24 Endangered Birds Gifted Their Own Hawaiian Island

  For a handful of lucky, yet critically endangered songbirds, life just got a whole lot roomier. The tiny species of Millerbird, native to Hawaii's Nihoa island, has been teetering on the brink of extinction there

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  Hawaii's Wild Donkeys to Be Airlifted to California

  Hawaii is a state known for its sandy, sun-kissed beaches, lush tropical forests, and aquatic biodiversity -- but it's unlikely sort of species that's been the focus of attention recently. The Big Island is home to

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  Roseanne's Nuts about Global Warming

  So you may have noticed that Roseanne Barr, formerly of the 1980s-90s hit TV comedy series "Roseanne," is making a comeback. I'll admit that I've noticed, and that I was watching a recent episode of "The

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  Teenager to Pay $100 for Slapping an Endangered Seal

  Hawaiian monk seals have plenty to worry about these days, what with a sea full of hungry sharks and a long history of being hunted by humans -- but now antics of rowdy teenagers has been added to that list. Last March,

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  Pro Surfer Kyle Thiermann, Jack Johnson, and Others on 'Toxic Tumbleweeds' and More Single-Use Plastics

  Plastic has most certainly been demonized over the past decade and with good reason. But even still, we spend roughly $100 billion every year on bottled water. And that's just plastic water bottles. Single-use plastics have

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  Hawaii Proposes Legislation to Bring Devastating Fish Farms Under Control

  The State Legislature in Hawaii is trying to fight the devastation that factory fish farming is bringing to local ecosystems. Two bills were introduced on Monday, one to stop the reckless expansion of the farms, and another

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  Ask Pablo: Is Canned Beer More Sustainable?

  Image By: Pablo Päster Dear Pablo: I have heard claims that canned beer is more sustainable than bottled. I find it hard to believe that metal is better then glass. Can this be true? Is Aluminum Better Then Glass? Pound for pound aluminum is much

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  Wave Power Delivers Electricity to US Grid For First Time

  While wave power often seems like the poor cousin of the renewable energy world, and frankly doesn't have the practical potential of wind or solar power, tapping the power of the sea does have its place and this next one

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  Follow 'The Great Marlin Race' Across the Equator

  The Pacific blue marlin is one of the largest billfish to swim the open ocean. Just how far can they swim, and where exactly are they going? Scientists are tracking the movements of 10 marlin

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  The Drifting Problem of Immortal Plastic

  We must recognize that everything we create as a society has a future that we cannot see. Every product we make lives on after our brief interaction with it. Nowhere is that more apparent than the plastic

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  Wearable Red Dirt, on a Shirt, Helped Save a Company

  Most people use washing machines to remove dirt. A company in Hawaii sells shirts dyed with the impossible-to-remove volcanic red dirt of the islands. Why? A 1992 hurricane threatened to sink the company when red dirt blew in and

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  Huge Banyan Tree Shades Historic Hawaiian Market

  Shopping at the International Marketplace in Honolulu, Hawaii, is like shopping under a Pandora hometree from the movie "Avatar." You don't need 3-D glasses. You don't even need sunglasses. This marketplace, across from Waikiki Beach, is shaded by a