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For close to three decades, Pacific Biodiesel has been plugging away in Hawaiʻi, using crops for fuel and recycling cooking oil waste from restaurants. The Conversation caught up with co-founder Kelly King to talk about the company's expansion to Kauaʻi.
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The recent murder-suicide of a family in Mānoa weighs heavy on our collective minds. What causes people to reach their breaking point? The Conversation reached out to Kumi Macdonald, the executive director of NAMI Hawaii, to learn more.
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The Navy finally released its report on a handful of homes that were reporting fuel contamination in their drinking water, specifically TPH, total petroleum hydrocarbons. Two military wives say they don't trust the findings, adding that if the 271-page report was supposed to make them feel better, it did not.
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Hawaiʻi will be featured in a number of episodes on the ByDesign series about everything from architecture to innovation to travel. The Conversation talked to the local architect tapped to be one of the hosts.
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You've heard of organ transplants, but what about the benefits of sound transplants? For coral reefs, an acoustic footprint called a soundscape is a critical indicator of their health. The Conversation spoke to Nadège Aoki, the graduate student who led the new study, about using sound to rehabilitate coral reefs.
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Military residents respond to the Navy's report on fuel contamination in a handful homes last fall; New research on using soundscapes to map reef health
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The Conversation’s Russell Subiono invited Nikki Nakamura to HPR to talk about her music and other songs that express the challenges of maintaining connections.
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The show, on CBS and streaming platforms, speaks volumes about the effort and thought behind good design — not just in your backyard, but across the globe from Tasmania to now Tantalus.
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The Conversation's Russell Subiono talked with Angelina Mercado, the executive director of the Hawaiʻi State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, about what more can victims and communities do to curb the fatal outcomes of domestic violence.
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What action communities can take to curb the fatal outcomes of domestic violence?; International TV host takes a tour of the Liljestrand House, a mid-century marvel on Oʻahu
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Yakuza in Waikīkī? Why not? Leave it to the Japanese company SEGA to create a video game about a former underworld figure in Hawaiʻi. Players control a former Yakuza member as he brawls his way through Honolulu, taking odd jobs and singing karaoke along the way. The Conversation's Maddie Bender has more.
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On Aug. 8 and in the days after, Lisa Paulson led a group of tourism managers on a mission to evacuate over 12,000 tourists from the Valley Isle.