Hawaii COVID-19 Screening Sites (3/16/20)
Hawaii COVID-19 Screening Sites (as of 4:30 p.m., March 16, 2020) via Hawaii Dept. of Health To help manage available healthcare resources for the public statewide, the DOH advises everyone to take the following steps: 1. Stay home if you…
Agricultural Land Use Mapping in Hawaii
Building a spatial crop land cover timeline of the Hawaiian Islands
We Need A Better Vision For Food Sustainability – Honolulu Civil Beat
Efforts to reduce imports and increase self-sufficiency could instead export profits and jeopardize local farms.
Produce Information Exchange: A Local Food Price Index for Hawaii
This study combines data from local food hubs to quantify local agricultural production and pricing information.
Relating Lobbyists to Campaign Contributions, 2019.
This chart shows companies who have hired lobbyists for 2019-2020, their registered lobbyists, the employers of those lobbyists (based on contribution reporting by candidates), and finally the office, candidate and volume of contributions made in in 2019. The chart does…
HICROP in R
HICROP input variables include topographic, edaphic, and climatic variables to identify spatial niche suitability for selected crops. The topographic and edaphic variables are: slope, soil depth, soil drainage, and soil pH. First, make some basic functions Model funcitons # Call…
On Determinism and Self-Determination
Can we in good faith advocate localization and regional development as our economic realities are increasingly dictated by global financial interests? This power vacuum is being felt from communities, to cities, to states, to nations as decision making is increasingly…
In the shadows of booming cities, a tension between sunlight and prosperity – The Washington Post
“And in some ways, shadows even turn light into another medium of inequality — a resource that can be bought by the wealthy, eclipsed from the poor.” Source: In the shadows of booming cities, a tension between sunlight and…
