Janet Addison is peering into a large, blue recycling bin on the University of Memphis campus. She does not like what she sees. “Okay, right now, everything that’s in here is contaminated,” says Addison, who’s been working as a recycling operator for the university for almost two years. By contaminated she means that along with […]

The battery-electric buses and charging infrastructure will support Hawaii’s ambitious zero-emission and climate action goals BURLINGAME, Calif., Jan. 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Today Proterra, a leading innovator in heavy-duty electric transportation, announced that JTB Hawaii, Inc. (JTB Hawaii), a provider of travel services in the Hawaiian Islands, has agreed to purchase three 40′ Proterra Catalyst® E2 electric buses […]

The state advances a holistic child-development approach that’s not confined to academics. In the current environment of standardized testing and academic rigor to ensure children are on track for high-school graduation, college and beyond, we often forget that success in school and in life is more than a narrow focus on academics and testing to […]

HILO, Hawaii – A trash collection device that broke apart while deployed in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii arrived on the Big Island on Sunday. The Hawaii Tribune-Herald reports the 2,000-foot (600-meter) long floating boom was being towed to Hilo after its support crew discovered a structural malfunction had caused an 18-meter section […]

HONOLULU- Hawaii tour companies, hotels and airlines are pitching in more than $50,000 to keep the USS Arizona Memorial visitors’ center open during the federal government shutdown. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports the money will keep the National Park Service facility staffed, its bathrooms open and its programs running for at least another week. Pacific Historic […]

HONOLULU – Firefighters responded to a house fire in Nuuanu Sunday morning. According to the Honolulu Fire Department, crews were dispatched around 7:40 a.m. to a home on Huene Street. Some 10 units staffed with 43 personnel responded. When firefighters rushed to the scene, they found a two-story single-family home fully involved in flames. Photos […]

Climate change – arguably humanity’s most existential challenge – requires urgent global action. As the World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report 2019 will show only too clearly, environmental crises – notably a failure to tackle climate change – are among the likeliest and highest-impact risks that the world faces over the next decade. Indeed, 2018 […]

The energy in ocean waves has been increasing as a consequence of climate change Sea level rise puts coastal areas at the forefront of the impacts of climate change, but new research shows they face other climate-related threats as well. In a study published January 14 in Nature Communications, researchers report that the energy of ocean […]

Minister for Agriculture, Food, and the Marine, Michael Creed, has announced the Clean Oceans Initiative and has called for the participation of the entire Irish trawl fishing fleet in the scheme by 31st December 2019. Creed wishes to have all Irish trawlers at every pier and every port actively participate in collecting, reducing and reusing […]

The founder of Reboot Innovation, a creative studio dedicated to sustainability, argues that designers should not be focusing solely on recyclable packaging but instead on systems that encourage the public to “reuse and refill” old containers. From “single-use” being announced as Collins Dictionary’s word-of-the-year, through to nationwide public support for government action to reduce plastic waste, […]