The World Health Organization Will Spend This Week Working On Scheduling Of Drugs. Something to be hopeful about? The WHO spend the week of 11/6/17 to 11/10/17 working on Scheduling of Drugs. Raul Elizalde will be fighting to get CBD out of the Schedule I category. The United States Government had incorrectly and arbitrarily placed […]
New Trends For Healthy and Energy Efficient Buildings
Manfred Zapka, AIA, LEED-AP, is the President of Sustainable Design and Consulting LLC and consults for UH-Manoa in developing efficient and healthy buildings on campus. On Code Green with Howard Wiig, he describes the latest and greatest coming down the pike and onto the UH campus. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet from 11:00 […]
The Department of Health on Rat Lung Worm
Sarah Park, Epidemiologist at the Hawaii State Department of Health, joins Community Matters to discuss Rat Lung worm in Hawaii. We learn about: (a) the biology and life cycle of the worm, (b) how it is contracted, (c) how the disease progresses, (d) what can be done to avoid contracting it, (e) what can be […]
10,000 Years Of Cannabis
Hemp is an ancient plant that has been cultivated for millennia. Hemp is a variety of the cannabis sativa plant. Hemp may be the most useful plant known to mankind. Food, fuel and fiber, hemp can provide all three high level product markets, they are the three things that we need as a society to […]
Hawaiis Medical Cannabis Industry
There are more than 14,142 Medical-Marijuana patients in Hawaii. Since 2000, patients in Hawaii with certain medical conditions could legally grow and possess small amounts of marijuana, but there are no dispensaries where one can buy it. What has happened to the investors who spent thousands of dollars to build Medical Cannabis Labs only to […]
Who Says Insulation Isn’t Exciting?
Who says insulation isn’t exciting? Sonny Lessary, Products Specialist for ADMOR HVAC, appears on Code Green with howard wiig to demonstrate that it’s not just LED’s and batteries that are scooting into the future at Roadrunner speed—even insulation is improving! Sonny will show a host of new residential efficiency products that deliver comfort and health […]
The Omish Program Can Help Us All
Raylene Nolan, Jason Smith, Michelle Tom, Megan Cacho, Brandi Romias and Sarah Lavallee from the Ornish Team at Straub appear on Community Matters with Jay Fidell to share their program. We An examination of what the program does and who it helps, and how, and also an examination of who else it might help if […]
Leaving Legacies for Hawaii
How do we build a solid future for our community? How can we ensure that what we care about – health, education, environment – can be supported after we are gone? Jeff Pederson, Director of Planned Giving, Hawaii Pacific Health joins Carol Mon Lee on Education Matters to discuss why legacy giving, or gifts after […]
The Effort for Universal Healthcare
Is the State of Hawaii close to providing universal healthcare for its residents? Representing Healthcare for All Hawaii, Dennis Miller appears on Movers Shakers Reformers with Carl Campagna to share developments on the effort for universal health care in Hawaii. Visit healthcareforall-hawaii.com for more details. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet from 11:00 am […]
The High Cost of Healthcare and the Complexity of Care
Why is healthcare so expensive in the U.S.? Rix Maurer, a healthcare cost specialist, joins Gordon Bruce on Hibachi to explain the high cost of healthcare. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm every weekday afternoon, Hawaii Time, then streaming earlier shows through the night. Check us out any […]