RIMPAC exercises. Image courtesy of Dallas Nagata White. In the wake of the Inouye era of federal spending in Hawai‘i, the United States military has a renewed strategy in the Pacific....
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Kyle Kajihiro and Terri Keko‘olani retrace the foot prints of military presence in the islands over the course of more than a century.
Image by Anna Harmon. In December 2012, all eyes were fixed on Pipeline for the last jewel of the Vans Triple Crown, the Pipe Masters. Waves were firing, videos streaming live,...
An incredible story of love between a father and his sons.
Images by Tom Anderson As trees go in Hawai‘i, the mighty koa and the metaphysical ‘ōhi‘a lehua remain lauded in hula and legend, their grandeur the province of gods of creation...
Regarding climate change, there has been a muddling of two primary issues by many critics: the first being that climate change is real and policy will have to be developed to react to the human cost of changing environments, the second that maybe we should do something about it by developing new forms of energy. This is a developing conversation being held on global transactional stages, in classrooms, and increasingly, in the arts. What has changed in the 21st century is that indigenous peoples have a voice in the discussion, and are offering real, and at times contentious, solutions about how to react to rising waters.
The 21st Annual Hawai‘i Conservation Conference, put on by the Hawai‘i Conservation Alliance, is scheduled for July 16-18 at the Hawai‘i Convention Center. The theme this year is Live Today, Sustain...