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…
Registration open for our next Oahu Permaculture Design Course
We at the Asia-Pacific Center for Regenerative Design have posted the dates and registation for out next Permaculture Design Certificate course. Permaculture is a design framework for sustainable human settlement and the course will cover the gamut from agro-ecological food…
Incentivizing the informal waste management sector in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti
A recent article in The Guardian: “Haiti could solve its drastic plastic problem and help its most vulnerable” highlights some of the waste management issues and opportunities in Haiti that were exacerbated by the earthquake on January 12th, 2010. The quake impacted,…