Plastics Ban: What’s Next
Local restaurants are seeking alternatives and worried about the costs, customer experiences and other challenges just as Oʻahu's new law restricting single-use plastics has business owners scrambling to comply.
Author: Cassie Ordonio
Survey: Nearly Half of Working Adults in Hawai‘i Have Experienced Sex Harassment at Work
In a new statewide survey, nearly half of working adults polled said they have experienced sexual harassment at work. In the online survey of 607 people, 52.2% of the women and 42.4% of the men said they have experienced sexual…
Hilo Forum Focuses on Internet Connectivity for Indigenous People
The Internet Society is holding its third annual Internet Connectivity Summit at UH Hilo in November with the theme of providing indigenous communities in rural and remote areas with affordable and sustainable internet connections. Mark Buell, the Canada-based society’s regional…
Saving Discarded Food to Fight Hunger
Goodr: Startup profile No. 5 covering Elemental Excelerator’s latest cohort. Every year, an estimated 72 billion pounds of edible food ends up in landfills – and Goodr wants to rescue as much of it as it can to feed people…
Jupiter Intelligence Shows Companies How Climate Change Will Impact Them
Startup profile No. 3 covering Elemental Excelerator’s latest cohort. Jupiter Intelligence uses human and artificial intelligence to help companies look into the future and see the potential impact of climate change on their businesses. “The world needs that kind of…
Order Food Direct from O‘ahu Farmers
Farm Link Hawai‘i: Startup profile No. 2 covering Elemental Excelerator’s latest cohort. Farm Link Hawai‘i lets stores, restaurants and consumers connect to farmers on O‘ahu, order food and then have it delivered. Farm Link founder Rob…
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I Donated a Kidney to a Stranger. You Might Consider It Too.
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Hawai‘i’s Housing Crisis Was Decades in the Making
A look at the policy decisions, external crises and social changes that gave Hawai‘i the most expensive housing in the nation.
