What’s behind the Haiku land rush? There have been 50 land parcels sold in the Haiku district of Northeast Maui in just the past three months. While a few transactions have been the works for a long time, and some were new subdivisions, the sudden surge of land sales in Haiku is an important signal […]
This article originally appeared in the June 2016 issue of Maui Vision Magazine. Sanity is madness put to good use. – George Santayana Five years ago, Alan Clements wrote an inspiring book – A Future to Believe In. This book title is also the motto of the Sanders campaign. The book’s subtitle is, A Guide to […]
This article originally appeared in the April 2016 issue of Maui Vision Magazine. Excuse me while I revel in Bernie Sanders’ stunning win in Michigan when this was written. In the coming weeks, hopefully the Bern will sweep many more states. Clearly the biggest upset in primary history, the Sanders victory, not unlike the Trump phenomenon, […]
This article originally appeared in the February 2016 issue of Maui Vision Magazine. The ancient Vedas say, ‘In this handful of soil rests the future of humanity.’ If we care for it we have a future and if we destroy it we destroy our own existence. – Dr. Vandana Shiva Think back to 10 or […]
This article originally appeared in the December 2015 issue of Maui Vision Magazine. Democracy is not a spectator sport. – Thom Hartmann Have you noticed the string of environmental victories that have been grabbing headlines these past few weeks? Just in the past couple of months: Shell pulled the plug on drilling for oil in the […]
This article originally appeared in the October 2015 issue of Maui Vision Magazine. Doubt is our product, since it is the best means of competing with the ‘body of fact’ that exists in the minds of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy. – Memo from cigarette company executive Lily Tomlin […]
This article originally appeared in the August 2015 issue of Maui Vision Magazine. We want to applaud your court system now that one of your judges ruled to allow a class action lawsuit to proceed – a suit that demands a ban on the cultivation of GMO plants and the pesticides used with them. Here […]
This article originally appeared in the February 2015 issue of Maui Vision Magazine. Even as the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact creeps forward and Monsanto supporter Hillary Clinton takes center stage, the GMO/chemical conspiracy is losing ground around the world. April was a turning point, starting with the release of a World Health Organization (WHO) report […]
This article originally appeared in the February 2015 issue of Maui Vision Magazine. The closing chapter to ten thousand years of madness and greed are being written right here and now. – Kurt Vonnegut, Jailbird Expanding one’s own powers involves the conscious projecting of new realities. – Jon Rappoport He who controls the past controls […]
This article originally appeared in the December 2014 issue of Maui Vision Magazine. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy…We must be cautious. – Obe Wan Kanobe It was not in a galaxy far away, but in this county – far from the biotech hive – where the rebel alliance struck. The […]
