A scheme to make it easy to obtain drinking water when on the move has been launched in the Isle of Man. Refill Isle of Man encourages shops, cafes, restaurants, tourist attractions and other publicly accessible premises to display an easy to recognise sticker, appear on an app and fill up people’s water bottles with cold […]

Deliver long-term value Finca Cortesin Hotel, Golf & Spa is at the forefront of European golf’s drive to become more eco-sustainable after revealing that it is using up to 30 per cent less water since becoming the first course in Spain to feature a new, environmentally-friendly, variety of Bermuda grass on all its greens. The deluxe […]

A long manufacturing boom has saddled China with millions of tonnes of waste, much of which is buried in sprawling landfill sites or dismantled by hand in polluting backstreet workshops. China plans to launch 100 new large-scale recycling “bases” by the end of next year, part of a campaign to make better use of its […]

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 […]