The question is not whether an extreme weather event will hit Hawai`i, but whether we will be prepared. Extreme weather events threaten Hawai`i electric, gas, water, wastewater, and telecommunication infrastructure. Hardening systems and added redundancy is required....
Life of the Land opposes an additional state tax on carbon. There are far more effectively ways of reducing greenhouse gas emissions including mandates to increase the use of low climate impact energy sources for electricity and ground transportation. Hawai`i has two...
Life of the Land opposes unsustainably deep-sea mining that is currently being proposed for the ocean floor. Deep sea mining poses an existential threat to relatively unknown marine ecosystems. We should recycle electronic devices to recover rare earth minerals rather...
Life of the Land had a long history working on sustainable agricultural issues. This included protecting agricultural land, promoting sustainable agriculture, working on pesticide and toxic hotspots, and being a successful plaintiff in the multi-million-dollar...
Life of the Land`s Climate Campaign started more than 2o years ago. Pat Tummons, editor of Environment Hawai`i, spoke about the dangers of climate change at Life of the Land`s “Energy for the Millennium Conference” held at Chaminade University on November 5-6, 1999....
Life of the Land has not shied away from controversy. We have found our niche at the Public Utilities Commission. Life of the Land also attends and participates in meetings of the Hawai`i Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission, the Hawai`i Greenhouse...
Democracy is a form of government built on a foundation of ethical truths, and it cannot survive without them. Values matter because how we adopt laws is as important as the laws we adopt, and all of us are charged with protecting the self-governing principles that...
The Hawai`i State Legislature passed SB 2510 CD1. The Hawai`i Senate demanded that the bill pass and asserted that it would kill numerous house bills if the house did not agree. The house went along with the senate and passed bill that authorizes concurrent...
Keith Avery was involved in many early wind projects in Hawai`i starting in the early 1980s. He appeared as a guest on Thinktech Hawaii in 2020. “I originate the projects. I prospect for the wind. We install anemometry to collect long-term limited resource data and...
Thee Navy identified five dozen active contamination sites at Joint Base Pearl-Harbor- Hickam that it is decontaminating. The largest project in size focuses on contaminated sediments in Pearl Harbor. The contaminants include underground fuel plumes, dioxin, arsenic,...
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Life of the Land filed comments on May 24, 2021, regarding the US Department of Justice`s proposed settlement of a major Pearl Harbor contamination site. The Federal Register included a Notice by the Justice Department on April 23, 2021, regarding a Settlement for...