The Conversation

Business effects from Honolulu's plastic ban; Addressing air travel impacts on the climate; Update on Samoa measles outbreak; Affordable housing; Comedian Hari Kondabolu

Vetiver Grass; The Long View: A Tale of Two Churches; Security Deposits Pricing Out Residents; Shifted Energy; "Kamehameha: Destiny Fulfilled" Book

Water deal struck between Maui farmers and landowner; Handi-Van problems; Chinatown Rising filmmakers talk about found footage and social change in San Francisco; Genki balls released to clean the Ala Wai Canal.

Internet on Reservations; Water on Europa; Safer Windows for Military Housing; KCC Culinary Champs; Arts Update

Family Caregivers; Willie K. Thanksgiving Special; Hawaii's Correctional Facilities; Learning To Grow 

Decolonizing Museums; Kiwikiu Deaths, Translocation Follow Up; Long Waits for Mental Health Services; MADD Holiday Season Campaign; Songs For a New World

Coral Satellite Imaging; Voices of Science Podcast: Coral Bleaching in the Pacific; Misconduct in Kealoha Plea; The Legend of Ko'olau Play; Ethnic Diversity in Local Dining

Update on the Waikiki Natatorium; Legislator talks special funds; White nationalists claim aloha for radio show; Artist talks about his experimental homemade film; Gardeners on at Turtle Bay Community Gardens

Managing Mauna Kea; New book collects stories from Kilauea eruption; Aloha for Iran; Seabury Hall plays Catch Me If You Can

Contextualizing history and demise of Kapu System; NEH Chairman gets firsthand look at reach of federal dollars; Support for $3-Million Playground; Will you take “The Coral Pledge?”; Centuries old Torah survives Holocaust  

Reactions to state subpoena of Airbnb host records; Maui Water Case Goes to the Supreme Court; Improving the relationship between police and the community; Local performer Loretta Ables Sayre

The Golden Rule Sails Again; Music of Richard Cheese; Uncertain Future for Hawaii Gas; Hawaii’s Arbor Day History

Vacation Rentals on Big Island Face Neighbor Complaints; Digitized Hawaiian Newspapers Opens Up New Opportunities for Researchers; Trying to Teach Hawaii Kids How to Swim; Archaeologists Researches Connection Between Heiau and the Stars

New Federal Regulations on Hemp; Night Marchers Movie Reboot; Easy Access to e-cigs; Honolulu Funding the Arts; Halloween Storyteller

Call in show discussing solar energy in Hawaii. Guests include:

• Melissa Miyashiro, managing director of strategy and policy at Blue Planet Foundation and who serves on the state’s Greenhouse Gas Sequestration Task Force. 
• William Giese, executive director of the Hawaii Solar Energy Association. Giese’s work focuses on policy analysis, creation, and advocacy of clean energy policies.
• Peter Rosegg, senior spokesman for Hawaiian Electric Companies.
• Marco Mangelsdorf, president of ProVision Solar in Hilo. He has been in the solar energy and renewable energy field since 1978. 
  

Political prisoners in Hawaii; Hanapepe Massacre; Kahuku Wind Farm Violation; State Capitol Tapestry

Servco's CEO shares his insight on how we'll be getting around town; Pacific Islanders in Communications tell us about an upcoming summit and feel good pitch session; Power struggle over Maui's wastewater fight; New York mixologist returns home for Hawaii Food & Wine Festival

Hong Kong Check-in; Loyalty in Voting; Unusual Solution for Public Park Use; Japan Tourism; Agriculture Program in High Schools

Chamber of Commerce Hawaii on protests effects on business and development; Hawaii International Film Festival to highlight European cinema; Crickets for lunch; Pacific Islanders face roadblocks to get immigration documents

DHHL Foreclosures; Hanapepe Massacre Documentary; Breaking Development in Kealoha Case; Honolulu Climathon 2019; Local Product Home for UH-Air Force Game

Marine Technology Society; Business of Recycling; HART Staffer Legal Woes; ANA Music Festival

Immigration & Kona Coffee Workers; UH Computer Glitch; Push-back on Wind and Solar; Hawaii Woodworking

45th annual Honolulu Intertribal Powwow focuses on missing and murdered indigneous women; New book captures signage of Hawaii's mid-century architecture; Report says billions of dollars needed to fix state's aging infrastructure; Having a laugh with the Hawaii Sketch Comedy Festival