Disclosing the latent climate and public health harms from combusting gasoline to people now, warning labels now appear on Cambridge, Mass., gas pumps. Read more Mahalo for reading the Honolulu Star-Advertiser! You’re reading a premium story. Read the full story with our Print & Digital Subscription. Subscribe Now Originally published at https://www.staradvertiser.com on February 7, 2021.

That’s (part of) the idea. James Brooks is founder of the Hawaii-based organization Think Beyond the Pump. Drew Shindell is Nicholas Professor of Earth Science at Duke University and a coordinating lead author of the 2018 IPCC Special Report on 1.5℃. This week, the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, became the first in the nation to…

Notes on a “climate silence” from the perspective of climate activists. It’s odd to be a climate activist. I founded a non-profit dedicated to government regulating the fossil fuel industry, and where I commonly talk with lots of other “climate people” just like me. …

Creating a Native Hawaiian Urban Forest Network in my own yard. Restoring the rightful place of native plants in landscaping urban areas. Halau’Ohi means to give and to receive. Native Hawaiian knowledge of sustainability is not just science; it is a sacred relationship. Restoring the urban forest to help “increase…

A right-wing prescription for climate change is more capitalism The first-order agenda of a Trump 2nd term — a consistent right-wing vision of ridding the world of all technocratic control — will finalize the legal removal of the United States from the Paris Agreement, in 2021. Among the many acts…

Unless majorities view climate change a higher priority, we can’t really do much about transportation emissions. Gasoline (and diesel) is our “energy miracle”. Gifting us a virtually unlimited capacity to cover vast distance, it catalyzed global economies. …

What are the collective implications as certain political tribes, the anti-mask wearing brigade in the midst of an alarming (and…

A remarkable bit of good news about CV-19, albeit with reprehensible economic and social repercussion, is the startling drop in greenhouse gas emissions in the wake of a microscopic pathogen. What started in North Vancouver in 2016, and quickly became oil industry greenwash, has spread outside the confines of a…

The effects of climate change are becoming increasingly apparent. July 2019 was the warmest month in Earth’s recorded history. Average temperatures in some parts of the U.S., including the Los Angeles region, much of the Rocky Mountains, a swath of Michigan, and a densely populated stretch of the Northeast, have…