In the news, and in our own words
Columns and interviews by Think B.I.G. leaders on energy, food security, transportation and resilience.
Honolulu Civil Beat
Hawaiʻi’s Fuel Supply Chain Is Dangerously Stressed
Tam Hunt
Read at Civil Beat →Hawaiʻi Needs A Strategic Food Reserve
Tam Hunt
Read at Civil Beat →Trump Killed Solar In Hawaiʻi. The Legislature Must Act Now
Tam Hunt
Read at Civil Beat →Hawaiʻi’s Leaders Should Declare An Energy Emergency
Tam Hunt
Read at Civil Beat →The EV Tax Credit Quandary In The Era Of Trump
Tam Hunt
Read at Civil Beat →Hawaiʻi Needs To Get More Serious About Food Security
Tam Hunt
Read at Civil Beat →When It Comes To Green Energy Transition, How’s The Big Island Doing?
Tam Hunt
Read at Civil Beat →Earlier Think B.I.G. posts
Pondering the County’s Office of Sustainability, Climate, Equity, and Resilience
Tam Hunt and Noel Morin joined Jay Fidel on ThinkTech Hawaiʻi for a 30-minute conversation about the new County office (OSCER) and its role in the island’s path to a sustainable future.
Hawaiʻi County leads the way on EV charging
Broken or missing chargers are a common problem for EV drivers. Hawaiʻi County has moved to fix it.
Read at Civil Beat →Waste Not, Want Not: Maximizing Efficiency is Key to Decarbonization
Noel Morin and Tam Hunt on why efficiency is one of the easiest ways to cut energy use.
Read at Civil Beat →Hawaiʻi needs a Green Jobs Corps
A green jobs program, modeled on the Civilian Conservation Corps, to restore the economy after record unemployment.
Read at Civil Beat →How to ramp up Hawaiʻi’s EV revolution
Short driving distances and abundant clean energy make Hawaiʻi the perfect place for electric vehicles.
Read at Civil Beat →Looking for economic transformation? Think B.I.G.
What a Green New Deal for the Big Island, led by local people and the County, could look like.
Read at Civil Beat →A call for resiliency on the Big Island
The pandemic showed how vulnerable an isolated island is when nearly all its fuel and most of its food arrive by ship.
Read at Civil Beat →