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Tue 01/6/09Coal Plant Spill Worse Than Exxon ValdezEnergy | Global Warming13
Mon 01/5/09A 50-year farm billEnvironment | Food & Agriculture | Government30
Mon 01/5/09Think Again: Climate ChangeGlobal Warming24
Sun 01/4/09Campaigner wins seven-year battle to force rethink on use of pesticidesHuman Rights | Environment | No Chemicals20
Sun 01/4/09Follow-up on Kalalau Trail and Bill Summers Access | State | Environment39
Fri 01/2/09Norms for GM crop testing created by biotech industry - Center For Food SafetyEnvironment | Food & Agriculture | GMO's35
Wed 12/31/08Green StimulusBlogHome | Economy | Energy | Environment | Government38
Tue 12/30/08A Change We Can Believe In - Dumping Industrial AgricultureHuman Rights | Environment | Food & Agriculture | Government54
Mon 12/29/08Some information about waterHuman Rights | Environment | Water53
Fri 12/26/08A Food Agenda for ObamaEnvironment | Food & Agriculture | GMO's | Government55
Fri 12/26/08Faster Climate Change FearedEnvironment | Global Warming48
Fri 12/26/08One Man’s Bid to Aid the EnvironmentEnvironment | Global Warming46
Wed 12/24/08The Crash Course...with new Last Installments Economy | Energy | Environment | Food & Agriculture | Government | Transportation | Waste & Recycling | Water | General Sustainability52
Wed 12/24/08Restaurants serving locally-grown foodEnvironment | Food & Agriculture53
Wed 12/24/08 Protection Against The Kauai Honeybee KillerEnvironment | Food & Agriculture51
Wed 12/24/08Is This the 'Clean Coal' that Obama Speaks Of?Coal | Energy | Environment | Federal Legislation | Water | Federal49
Wed 12/24/08Action Alert: Keep the Economic Stimulus Clean!Environment | Government | Transportation53
Fri 12/19/08Paradise trashedEnvironment | Oceans | Waste & Recycling54
Thu 12/18/08Secretary of Ag Nomination Sends Chills Through FarmersBlogHome | Environment | Food & Agriculture | Government93
Wed 12/17/08Environmentalists Wary of Obama’s Interior PickEnvironment | Government63
Tue 12/16/08In 'Eat Local' Movement, Cuba Is Years AheadEconomy | Energy | Environment | Food & Agriculture61
Tue 12/16/08Matt Simmons Powerpoint: Hawaii and Peak Oil BlogHome | Water | Transportation | State Legislation | County Policy | Oceans | Wind | Solar Power | KIUC | Fossil Fuel | Energy | Economy79
Sat 12/13/08THE AUTO BAILOUTHuman Rights | Economy | Energy | Environment | Government64
Thu 12/11/08Letter to the editor from a Kamehameha studentCommunity | Environment | Hawaiian Issues | Land Use79
Thu 12/11/08Post Carbon Cities 2008 Year in ReviewEconomy | Energy | Environment | Government63
Tue 12/9/08Electricity rates and cars on Kauai and HawaiiBlogHome | Superferry | Transportation | Global Warming | Solar Power | KIUC | Energy109
Tue 12/9/08Genetically modified Hawai`iEnvironment | Food & Agriculture | GMO's73
Mon 12/8/08Erosion of Waikiki Beach would cut Hawaii tourism by $2 billionEconomy | Environment | Global Warming62
Sun 12/7/08The Wrong Kind of Offshore Wind ProjectState | Oceans | Wind | Energy | Federal121
Sat 12/6/08'Yes We Can' Create a Sane Food Policy in the USHuman Rights | Environment | Food & Agriculture | Federal56
Fri 12/5/08Malama Kaua'i: Harvesting ideas from the Garden Isle BlogHome | Community | Economy | Energy | Environment | Food & Agriculture | County Policy | State Legislation | Hawaiian Issues | Ahupua`a | Superferry | General Sustainability132
Wed 12/3/08Soil Not Oil: Why We Need to Kick Petroleum Out of Our FarmsEconomy | Energy | Environment | Food & Agriculture78
Wed 12/3/08Powerpoints from the Hawaii Energy Challenge 2008 Energy | Fossil Fuel | KIUC | Solar Power | Waste to Energy | Wind | Global Warming | County Policy | State110
Sun 11/30/08Measuring an eroding sustainabilityEnvironment58
Fri 11/28/08Top of the Food ChainEnvironment42
Tue 11/25/08Little Gain From Oil Sands Carbon Capture: ReportEnvironment | Global Warming89
Tue 11/25/08Take action: Tell the EPA to regulate carbon dioxide pollution.Environment | Global Warming68
Tue 11/25/08First Council Meeting A Lotta RockyCounty | Waste & Recycling | Transportation | Over-development | Housing | Development | County Policy | County Elections | Council Votes | Council Agendas | GMO's | Environment | Waste to Energy | Energy | Economy | General Sustainability114
Sun 11/23/08Search On to Get Food Crops Out of BiofuelsEthanol | Environment | Food & Agriculture94
Sun 11/23/08Ordnance found in cleanupEnvironment | Military93
Thu 11/20/08100% Hawaii grown ThanksgivingEnvironment | Food & Agriculture97
Wed 11/19/08Obama Commits U.S. to Climate TalksGlobal Warming73
Tue 11/18/08Great story on Judy, founder of BALLEEconomy | Environment | Food & Agriculture73
Sun 11/16/08Keep genetically engineered animals off your plateOceans | Food & Agriculture | GMO's | Government88
Sun 11/16/08"Take Care of the Residents and the Land First, Then Tourism Will Come"BlogHome | Economy | Energy | Environment | County Policy | Development | Housing | Transportation | General Sustainability91
Thu 11/13/08Supreme Court On Sonar: Navy Trumps WhalesEnvironment | Oceans | Military100
Wed 11/12/08Michael Pollan: Eating Is a Political ActFood & Agriculture | Environment | Economy64
Mon 11/10/08Al Gore: The Climate for ChangeEnergy | Environment | Global Warming | Government80
Mon 11/10/08Dreaming the Future Can Create the FutureCommunity | Energy | Environment80
Sun 11/9/08Superferry Natural Resource TakingsSuperferry | Environment75
Sat 11/8/08Bush not done ruining the environment yetEnvironment | Government | Federal79
Sat 11/8/08Video: Call to Action for Zero Waste: Plastic Beach on Big Island BlogHome | Oceans | Council Agendas | Waste & Recycling | Cruise Ships104
Thu 11/6/08ARBOR DAY! THIS SATURDAYEnvironment | Food & Agriculture74
Thu 11/6/08Brief Review of Kauai Election Results BlogHome | Waste & Recycling | Over-development | County Elections | Food & Agriculture | Environment | Energy | Economy95
Fri 10/31/08A Last Push To DeregulateEnvironment | Federal84
Mon 10/27/08Climate Deal May Be Too Late To Save Coral Reefs, Scientists WarnGlobal Warming64
Sat 10/25/08Ecuador Constitution Would Grant Inalienable Rights To NatureEnvironment74
Fri 10/24/08Suggesting ‘retreat’ for beach conservationOver-development | Oceans | General Sustainability83
Thu 10/23/08Failing seawall poses safety threatOceans67
Thu 10/23/08Kauai Orca Video Reports Oceans85
Wed 10/22/08Sick orca whale euthanized on KauaiOceans81
Fri 10/10/08Supreme Court Shows Little Sympathy for Whales Beset by SonarOceans | Military107
Tue 10/7/08Whales Sonar Case Goes to Supreme CourtOceans | Military103
Sun 10/5/08Seas Turn to Acid as They Soak Up CO2Oceans93
Thu 09/25/08UN: Tackling Climate Change Will Boost - Not Destroy - JobsEconomy | Global Warming89
Mon 09/22/08Experts expect marine debris to worsen, in HawaiiOceans108
Sun 09/14/08BLNR President Laura Thielen to speak 9/18 at Kaua`i Community Advisory Council meetingState | Oceans | Ahupua`a | Over-development | Koke'e160
Sat 09/13/08Study Finds Recent Global Warming Unprecedented Global Warming96
Thu 09/11/08Cleared! Jury Decides That Threat of Global Warming Justifies Breaking The LawGlobal Warming134
Sun 09/7/08Videos: Ike and this Hurricane SeasonGlobal Warming181
Wed 09/3/08Climate crisis: islands disappearingGlobal Warming | Human Rights181
Wed 08/27/08Schemes To Offset Carbon 'Overpriced and Unfair'Global Warming76
Wed 08/27/08Jellyfish invade isle beachesOceans135
Tue 08/26/08Whales, Dolphins, Sonar and the CourtsOceans | Military104
Tue 08/19/08Newsworthy opinion piece on Surfrider - Mahalo!Oceans | Community | Waste & Recycling124
Sat 08/16/08Oceans on the Precipice: Scripps Scientist Warns of Mass Extinctions and Rise of SlimeOceans108
Sat 08/16/08Don’t cripple the law that protects endangered speciesOceans | Military | Economy | Federal117
Fri 08/15/08Input sought on Nawiliwili pollutionState | No Chemicals | Oceans | Community123
Thu 07/31/08OPC releases draft strategy to reduce ocean litterOceans | Waste & Recycling122
Thu 07/31/08Dead whales linked to RIMPAC sonar tests?Oceans | General Sustainability208
Tue 07/29/08KAUA`I OCEAN POLLUTIONBlogHome | Oceans351
Sun 07/27/08Activists To Ratchet Up Climate HeatGlobal Warming131
Sat 07/26/0810 Steps in 10 Years to 100 Percent Renewable PowerBlogHome | Energy | Economy | Global Warming195
Fri 07/18/08Warming Is Major Threat To Humans, EPA WarnsGlobal Warming131
Thu 07/17/08Hawai`i Seafood WatchOceans | General Sustainability148
Tue 07/15/08The Anti-Climate SummitGlobal Warming105
Wed 07/9/08Waste water discharge closes N. Shore beachesOceans119
Sat 07/5/08One Leap Backwards for Biodiversity, One Giant Step Forward for IndustryGlobal Warming | Human Rights115
Fri 06/27/08Navy ship to be sunk off HawaiiOceans | Hawaiian Issues190
Fri 06/27/08No Ice At The North Pole: Polar Scientists Reveal Dramatic New Evidence of Climate ChangeGlobal Warming155
Thu 06/26/08Oxygen-starved oceans rapidly dyingOceans145
Thu 06/26/08Supreme Court Slashes Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Fine to One-Tenth of Original $5 Billion RulingNo Chemicals | Oceans147
Wed 06/25/08navy seeks permit to continue sonar in Hawai`iOceans | Military127
Tue 06/24/08Twenty Years Later: Tipping Points Near on Global WarmingGlobal Warming116
Tue 06/24/08Group claims fishery meeting decisions voidOceans134
Mon 06/23/08Surfrider chapter joins offshore oil drilling debateEnergy | Oceans220
Mon 06/23/08Put Oil Firm Chiefs On Trial, Says Leading Climate Change ScientistGlobal Warming101
Sun 06/22/08Harbor gets a Surfing Day cleanupOceans179
Thu 06/19/08FREE OUTDOOR SHOWING OF "THE 11TH HOUR"BlogHome | Global Warming | Energy133
Sat 06/7/08As Climate Bill Dies, Greens Express HopeFederal Legislation | Energy | Global Warming135
Sat 06/7/08GOP Blocks Senate’s Global Warming BillFederal Legislation | Energy | Global Warming178
Mon 06/2/08Study links lotion to coral bleachingOceans | General Sustainability145
Tue 05/13/08Climate Policy: From ‘Know How’ to ‘Do Now’Global Warming131
Mon 05/5/08Wanted: A Few Flat-Earth Scientists To Support Alaskan Oil DrillingGlobal Warming124
Mon 05/5/08Carbon overloadGlobal Warming | General Sustainability128
Mon 04/28/08Human Warming Hobbles Ancient Climate CycleGlobal Warming140
Sun 04/27/08Government action needed to fight climate changeGovernment | Global Warming138
Sun 04/27/08Comments sought on plans for marine national monument Government | Oceans124
Fri 04/25/08SUPPORT THE KAUA'I BUSTransportation | Global Warming | County Policy181
Fri 04/25/08Harbors plan calls for bulk liquid projectState | Oceans | Transportation | Superferry150
Tue 04/22/08Stop Waiting for ‘Leaders’ to Act on Global WarmingGovernment | Global Warming131
Tue 04/22/08Arctic Ice Melting Fast in Summer SunGlobal Warming135
Sat 04/19/08GLOBAL COOLING 101Global Warming131
Mon 04/14/08The Great Pacific Rubbish DumpOceans | Waste & Recycling702
Mon 04/14/08State Work at Ke'e BeachOceans | General Sustainability160
Thu 04/10/08Logging Boreal Forest Could Detonate Massive ‘Carbon Bomb,' Says ReportGlobal Warming | General Sustainability124
Thu 04/10/08Times Up for Bottom FishingOceans172
Wed 04/9/08Bottomfishing ban to begin Monday in Hawaii watersOceans165
Mon 04/7/08Navy Sonar Blamed For Death of Beaked WhalesOceans | Military151
Fri 04/4/08Coral reef health the topic of Bishop Museum seminarOceans277
Tue 04/1/08Biofuels: An Unsustainable ScamEnergy | Biofuels | Global Warming159
Mon 03/31/08“Kyoto II” Climate Talks Open in BangkokGlobal Warming202
Sun 03/30/08Shark sightings close Hanalei BayOceans198
Fri 03/28/08Navy Sonar Testing: Harming Whales?Oceans | Military330
Thu 03/27/08Million Acres of Guyanese Rainforest To Be Saved In Groundbreaking DealGlobal Warming | General Sustainability141
Tue 03/25/08Scorned Trash Pickers Become Global Environmental ForceGlobal Warming | Waste & Recycling193
Sat 03/22/08Reef Fish Protection Bill is DeadState Legislation | Oceans135
Tue 03/18/08Surfers fight ferry pierOceans | Community | General Sustainability156
Sat 03/15/08Navy seeks input on sonar use in Hawai‘i watersOceans | Military158
Wed 03/12/08Navy Proposal Will Expand Training Across Entire Hawai'ian Archipeligo!BlogHome | Hawaiian Issues | Military | Oceans | General Sustainability175
Sun 03/9/08Bill to protect Ni‘ihau coastline killedOceans | General Sustainability132
Fri 03/7/08Navy Supplemental EIS on SonarOceans | Military136
Wed 03/5/08Navy Announces Plans to Expand Warfare Training into Northwestern Hawai'ian IslandsOceans | Military151
Mon 03/3/08Save Hawai'ian Reefs!Oceans166
Mon 03/3/08Blue Hawai'i: Climate Change Initiatives in Hawai'iEnergy | Global Warming178
Mon 03/3/08Eco-Sailing: Boat Uses Ocean's EnergyEnergy | Oceans207
Sun 03/2/08Restrictions on Navy sonar use tightened Oceans | Military189
Fri 02/29/08Pride of America goes into drydockOceans | Economy172
Wed 02/27/08Northwestern Hawai'ian Islands Landmark DecisionOceans | General Sustainability154
Mon 02/25/08Where did the marine diesel fuel spill come from?Oceans196
Sat 02/23/08GM Exec Stands by Calling Global Warming a “Total Crock of Shit"Global Warming203
Sat 02/23/08Hearings on Navy's Use of SonarOceans | Military168
Wed 02/20/08Climate Change Threatens Human Rights of Millions: UNGlobal Warming182
Fri 02/15/08Scientists fear 'tipping point' in Pacific OceanOceans | Global Warming158
Fri 02/15/08Top Scientists Want Research Free From PoliticsGlobal Warming | Federal163
Fri 02/15/08McKibben: Local Activism is Key to Fighting Climate ChangeGlobal Warming135
Wed 02/13/08Debate Over Sonar Use in Hawaiian WatersOceans | Military163
Wed 02/13/08The Nature Conservancy's Agenda...please read if you support them!State | Global Warming248
Tue 02/12/08King Penguin Faces Extinction Due to Climate ChangeGlobal Warming323
Tue 02/12/08What Happened to all the Tropical Fish?!BlogHome | Oceans | State Legislation166
Tue 02/12/08Another cruise ship goneOceans152
Tue 02/12/08Sonar's fate murkyOceans | Military156
Mon 02/11/08Proposed rule could alter cruise industryOceans151
Thu 02/7/08Bump with whale is warning for allOceans | Superferry177
Tue 02/5/08Hawaii’s Carbon FootprintState | Global Warming358
Tue 02/5/08U.S. REPRESENTATIVE HENRY WAXMAN CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION OF WESTERN PACIFIC FISHERIES MANAGEMENT COUNCIL (WESPAC)Oceans | Hawaiian Issues | Federal337
Mon 02/4/08Beach access issues draw statewide crowdsOceans | Community158
Fri 02/1/08Mitigating Climate Change through Organic Agriculture and Localized Food SystemsGlobal Warming | Food & Agriculture197
Fri 02/1/08Joan Conrow on the Energy Conference (highly recommended)Energy | Military | Global Warming | Federal201
Thu 01/31/08Hawaii students draw line on climate changeGlobal Warming | Community172
Thu 01/31/08UN: Climate Change May Cost $20 TrillionEconomy | Global Warming178
Thu 01/31/08World's top polluters meet at UH to discuss cleaning up actEnergy | No Chemicals | Global Warming145
Thu 01/31/08Navy asks court to drop sonar injunctionOceans | Military | Federal132
Wed 01/30/08Bali Hai Villas Violating Clean Water ActWater | Oceans | Federal173
Tue 01/29/08Honolulu climate meeting could signal sea change in U.S. stand on global warmingGlobal Warming | Federal225
Tue 01/29/08ACTION ALERTS: Beach Access and Climate ChangeGlobal Warming | Community157
Mon 01/28/08Auto Companies Press States on California EmissionsEnergy | Economy | Global Warming174
Mon 01/28/08Big Business Says Addressing Climate Change ‘Rates Very Low on Agenda’Global Warming135
Mon 01/28/08Isles host talks on climate changeEnergy | Global Warming150
Sun 01/27/08Lawmakers Plan to Protect Hawaii's Whales from Superferry and SonarState | Oceans | Superferry153
Sun 01/27/08County action needed to halt Kaua‘i’s contribution to climate changeCounty | Global Warming153
Thu 01/24/08Bush's Hawaii Climate Summit & Community ActionsGlobal Warming | Energy | Federal201
Tue 01/22/08Greenpeace Interrupts Whaler RefuelingOceans176
Tue 01/22/08Kona fish farm's plans to expand spur concernsFood & Agriculture | Oceans354
Tue 01/22/08Sonar ruling may bolster efforts here Oceans | Military | Federal131
Mon 01/21/08Kona fish farm facing expansion oppositionOceans153
Fri 01/18/08New EPA hearing date on Sand Island wastewater plantOceans | Waste & Recycling149
Fri 01/18/08Lifeguards at Ke'e BeachOceans | Community313
Thu 01/17/08After Bali: Time for a Different Kind of Climate PoliticsGlobal Warming | Federal155
Wed 01/16/08Bush exempts Navy; sonar exercises OK off SoCal coastOceans | Military | Federal197
Tue 01/15/08Antarctica Lost More Ice in Last 10 Years: StudyGlobal Warming152
Tue 01/8/08Australia whale monitors set off to shadow JapaneseOceans160
Mon 01/7/08Curbs on sonar likely to apply to Hawaii watersOceans | Military | Federal151
Thu 01/3/0816 States Sue EPA to Force Waiver Over Greenhouse Gas Global Warming | Federal165
Thu 01/3/08Research gone awry strangles Hawaii reefsOceans199
Wed 01/2/08The world's first climate change refugees to leave island due to rising sea levelsGlobal Warming141
Wed 01/2/08‘Action, action, action’ needed to fight climate changeGlobal Warming | Federal161
Mon 12/31/07Heeding nature's warningsState | Energy | Global Warming139
Sat 12/29/072007 a Year of Weather Records in USGlobal Warming160
Fri 12/28/07War and Peace with the EnvironmentGlobal Warming148
Thu 12/27/07Climate Change Gives Rise to New World OrderGlobal Warming149
Thu 12/27/07Outspoken Environmentalist Puts His Money Where His Mouth IsGlobal Warming | General Sustainability155
Wed 12/26/07Coal’s Ascent Is Re-Igniting Familiar DebateCoal | Global Warming | Human Rights128
Wed 12/26/07Kona lab is aquaculture centralOceans174
Wed 12/26/07Residents suspicious of ‘surprise’ bridgeOceans | Economy | Transportation166
Tue 12/25/07Auto Emissions and Environmental ProtectionGlobal Warming | Federal169
Tue 12/25/07Bali’s Business-As-Usual MandateGlobal Warming | Federal153
Tue 12/25/07Cheney Accused of Blocking Californian Bid to Cut Car FumesFossil Fuel | Global Warming | Federal169
Mon 12/24/07Innovative global warming solutions long overdueGlobal Warming128
Mon 12/24/07Ferry speed called key to collisions with whalesOceans | Superferry180
Mon 12/24/07UH leads ‘huge’ biofuel effortBiofuels | Oceans389
Sun 12/23/07Maui reef expedition reveals new findingsOceans167
Sun 12/23/07Compostable Alternatives to Plastic arrive in Hawai'i Oceans | Waste & Recycling154
Thu 12/20/07Japan Test Fires Its First Raytheon-Built Standard Missile-3Oceans | Military146
Tue 12/18/07Nature Conservancy seeking Marine Fellowship Program fellowsOceans181
Wed 12/12/07Greenland ice sheet melting at record rateGlobal Warming132
Mon 12/10/07Ships must monitor ballast waterState | Oceans148
Wed 12/5/07Emissions concerns aired againCounty | No Chemicals | Oceans157