island energy comparison: rates and demand trends

Don’t count on Kauai’s electricity demand jumping back up to meet KIUC’s official load forecast, shown here in grey. Like so many other economic indicators these days, energy use is moving sideways or down. My TGI letter last week refers to the data...

here comes “Sun”: Hadley on farmworker housing

Kauai’s guru of organic growing, George “Sun” Hadley, is leading by example at his “One Song” Moloa`a farm and by training a new generation of growers at his bio-intensive seminars. (See Sun in this video by Darrel Jarmusch, and read Anne...

Kauai’s power keeps getting greener

Great news from Kauai’s local electric co-op, KIUC, with the the release of its latest carbon emissions data: we’re still trending down! This chart shows that KIUC’s emissions are falling from over 1.5 pounds of CO2 equivalents per kilowatt-hour in...

Yale students help Kauai measure sustainability

What a treat! I got to spend much of this past week interacting with 4 students from the Yale School of Forestry while they were on Kaua`i collecting data for a “Material Flow” analysis as part of their coursework in Industrial Ecology. Sadly, their...

sprawl or in-fill? on Kauai town growth since 2000

Surprise! Kauai’s northshore was not the fastest growing part of the island, as development boomed during the last decade. The 2010 Census data are just out, and Kapa`a is the clear winner in the home-building race, with Puhi close behind. Of course,...

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