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When I was a small kid, we had a way of dealing with scarcity. Let's say you brought a bag of White Rabbit candy to school. There're four left in the bag and 12 kids screaming at you "I like one!" You feel like you're inside a beehive, so you throw the candy in the air and yell "ROUGH TAKE!" a… Continue

We all have a stake in the "economic stimulus" proposals being considered by our leaders, locally and nationally. Yet the economy is something so abstract, so complicated, it's hard even to grasp what it is, much less how to fix it.

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When my wife and I applied to become Peace Corps volunteers, the first position they offered me was to assist a beekeeping cooperative in the Caribbean. Bees? I saw Ulee’s Gold and ended up in the hospital once after getting too many stings as a child. But other than superficial knowledge, I had no clue or frame of referen… Continue

A couple of weeks ago, I heard on NPR that the Maldives were looking to buy up land in Sri Lanka as a hedge against sea levels that threaten to rise and cover their islands. This chain of roughly 1,200 islands rise only three feet or so above sea level. Some experts predict that they could be underwater… Continue

The holiday season is upon us! Kanu Hawaii in partnership with the Kokua Hawaii Foundation is asking all of us to consider "simplifying the holidays." Let's use this time of both great hope and great challenges to refocus on the season's deeper values of joy, peace, and ohana (family) by making holiday choices… Continue