Hari and Ramya Srinivasan of Texas try some coconut milk from Emilio Espinoza at the seventh annual Hawaii Avocado Festival Saturday at the Sheraton Kona Resort & Spa. (Brad Ballesteros/Special to West Hawaii Today) Miss Kona Coffee 2013 Guinevere Davenport talks avocado with Vika Hanson at the seventh annual Hawaii Avocado Festival Saturday at the [...]
ALTERNATIVE & SUSTAINABLE BIG ISLAND ENERGY
October 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Hydrogen fuel test project coming By Nancy Cook Lauer HILO —A first-of-its-kind demonstration project to stabilize the Big Island electric grid while creating hydrogen for public transportation could be off and running by the first quarter of 2013. “This is all pretty state of the art stuff,” said Mitch Ewan, hydrogen systems program manager for [...]
BIG PLANS FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING ON LANAI
October 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Oracle CEO Ellison dreams of making Hawaii island model of sustainability * 3,000 residents amid hotels, former pineapple fields * Billionaire plans organic farms, electric cars By Malia Mattoch McManus HONOLULU, Hawaii, Oct 4 (Reuters) – If Oracle billionaire CEO Larry Ellison has his way, the Hawaiian island of Lanai will be transformed into a [...]
Expedition gives researchers new info on opihi
October 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Erin Miller – West Hawaii Today Researchers in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands picked up some new information about one of Hawaii’s favorite little invertebrates, including an observation that females live higher up in intertidal zones than males. An expedition team including scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Texas A&M University returned [...]
HOME GROWN APPETIZERS
September 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Shrimper moves operations to Big Island By HUNTER BISHOP – Tribune-Herald Staff Writer HILO — A worldwide shrimp breeder is moving its headquarters from Florida to the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority and expanding its Hawaii operations. Shrimp Improvement Systems, which started in 1998 in Plantation Key, Fla., will invest $8 million in new [...]
Power boost Council committee seeks to make converting to solar more affordable
July 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
HILO: A County Council committee on Wednesday had a sunny outlook for a nonbinding resolution asking the state Public Utilities Commission to make it easier for homeowners to hook up solar panels. The council Agriculture, Water and Energy Sustainability Committee voted 8-0 to move the resolution to a future County Council meeting with a [...]
Big Island Biodiesel opens
July 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY TAKES ANOTHER STEP FORWARD SHIPMAN BUSINESS PARK — Hawaii’s newest and largest biodiesel refinery received a rain shower blessing Monday during its grand opening celebrations. Big Island Biodiesel, located near Keaau, opened its doors for investors to tour the $12 million plant that in a few months will begin turning fuel crops and [...]
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY & AG IN THE BIG ISLAND SPOTLIGHT
June 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Abercrombie: Big Island to ‘lead the way’ The future of the state will depend much on the Big Island, particularly with its development of energy and agriculture, Gov. Neil Abercrombie told business leaders in Hilo on Monday. During the speech to about 130 Hawaii Island Chamber of Commerce members at the Hilo Yacht club, the [...]
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE – GRASS FED BEEF
June 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Parker Ranch, Ulupono Initiative to study large-scale Hawaii grass-fed beef production. Ulupono Initiative, a social investment fund co-founded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, has teamed with Hawaii’s Parker Ranch to study the development of a large-scale grass-fed beef operation on the Big Island. Under the agreement, Honolulu-based Ulupono Initiative and Kamuela-based Parker Ranch, one of [...]
BIG PLANS FOR SUSTAINABLE OILS, FEED AND BIOFUEL…
June 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
FROM ALGAE GROWN RIGHT HERE ON THE BIG ISLAND. Cellana Announces Its ReNew™ line of Algae-Based Omega-3 EPA and DHA Oils, Animal Feed, and Biofuel Feedstocks. SAN DIEGO and KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii, June 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Cellana, Inc. announced the launch of its ReNew™ brand and ReNew™ Omega-3 line of algae-based products at the GOED [...]
