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Has Honolulu considered banning the use of fossil fuels?

Here’s how Honolulu is spending its climate funds

Honolulu has set aside $9 million to expand community gardening, convert cesspools, and complete other climate projects this fiscal year.

That money comes from the city’s Climate Resiliency Fund, which voters approved in the 2024 election.

Special funds are not new — Honolulu has almost 70 such funds that finance everything from rental assistance to municipal golf courses. But the Climate Resiliency Fund is one of the first dedicated pots of money for climate adaptation work.

“This is not only unique for the City and County of Honolulu, but for all four counties in Hawai?i,” said Kealoha Fox, the executive director of the city’s Office of Climate Change, Sustainability and Resiliency, which administers the climate fund.

So, what is the city, which would be a backwards village without fossil fuels, doing with the money?

In its first year, the climate fund supported a loan program for cesspool conversions and an initiative to help residents retrofit their homes to lower electricity bills. Fox said those types of projects tackle multiple problems at once.

That has what to do with climate doom? Meh, you know they’ll have some sort of Answer, pulled out of their butts. I bet the people running this are hooked in and hooking up.

Honolulu’s Department of Parks and Recreation is getting money from the climate fund this year for four projects — including one that will create a new community garden at Asing Community Park in ?Ewa Beach.

They need this because the price of lots of foods is high, because most is grown for ones own use or shipped in.

Residents will still have to wait a few years before their first harvests in ?Ewa, as construction likely won’t start on the new garden until 2027 or 2028.

Why the hell does it take that long?