Climate Change Makes These Fires More Threatening. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Francis Fujioka. Francis Fujioka, retired meteorological researcher for the US Forest Service, helps us understand the science and environmental and meteorological aspects of wild land fire science. The ThinkTech YouTube Playlist for this show is https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQpkwcNJny6mAjbhHpq-LyAm9pcuN3zJ Please […]
What Should we Build in Kakaako Makai (Catching up on Kakaako)
Are 40 Story Luxury Condos the Answer. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is DeSoto Brown. Our panel from our Human(e) Architecture show takes a look at the history and topographical and environmental condition of Kakaako Makai, the urban planning considerations, and suggests what we can and should build in Kakaako […]
What’s the Best Plan for Kakaako Makai (Catching up on Kakaako)
Should that Plan Include High Rise Buildings. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Wayne Takamine. Wayne Takamine was the chair of the Kakaako Makai Planning Council. He helps us understand the plan that was discussed at that time, and the factors that should be taken into consideration in any plan […]
Climate Change and Sea Level Rise in Kakaako Makai (Catching up on Kakaako)
Are High Rise Condo Towers Realistic. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Chip Fletcher. Professor Chip Fletcher of SOEST at the University of Hawaii and the Climate Change Commission will help us understand the effects of climate change and sea level rise in shoreline areas in Kakaako Makai and whether […]
The Elephant is Still Climate Change (American Issues Take Two)
Maybe the Crisis will Go Away by Itself. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guests are Stephanie Dalton and Vicky Cayetano. With all the trouble in Congress and the GOP and thus the government in general, we haven’t been doing very much on climate change. And Europe and China have also been […]
Understanding the Move to Global Autocracy (American Issues Take Two)
What Are the Causes and Factors in Play. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and Tim Apicella. The guests are Stephanie Dalton and Alexander H.E. Morawa. Our panel examines the remarkable growth in the rise of autocrats and autocratic governments around the world, including China, Russia, Hungary and so many other places in […]
What We Can Do for Climate Change (Healthy Planet)
Go Vegan to Reverse Climate Change. The host for this show is Grace Chen O’Neil. The guest is Sailesh Rao. Dr. Sailesh Rao of Climate Healers tells us about how we can transform our world by going vegan. Animal agriculture is the number one cause of climate change. Humans use 31% of the land area […]
Environmental Whack-A-Mole (Hawaii: State Of Clean Energy)
Carbon Cash-Back for the Win. The host for this show is Mitch Ewan. The guest is Matthew Geyer. In the next legislative session a Carbon Cashback bill will be introduced. We discuss how this legislation would help. Carbon Cashback imposes a tax on all fossil fuels imported into Hawaii. The policy would increase the barrel […]
Does Canada Care More About Environment (View from the North)
With Climate Change it’s More Important. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Ken Rogers. Ken Rogers, retired Canadian businessman, will help us understand how the average Canadian and the Canadian government feel about the environment and about climate change, and will help us compare how Canada addresses these issues with […]
Cold Weather Challenges Infrastructure (View from the North)
It’s Not the Same Between the U.S. and Canada. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and Ken Rogers. Canadian businessman Ken Rogers helps us understand the infrastructure needs in Canada, especially the challenges presented to highways, bridges and railway lines by cold weather, snow and ice. Those challenges have some similarities to infrastructure […]