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?
2027 is in less than 6 months. Design permits utilities contracts. Takes time to do it right. Not like the Reflecting Pool fuck up.
People in ultra blue Hawaii live longer t has an any other state. But not as long as people living in NYC
Buy a rototiller.
On July 21, 2026, at a National Coal Council meeting, Trump EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said to executives from coal and mining companies in the room:
“Many of the items that were on your wish list are now done” and that the EPA is “proud to do this work to protect, advance beautiful clean coal across the United States.”
What has Don’s EPA done to “protect” the environment?
– repealed the 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards updates, allowing coal- and oil-fired power plants to emit more mercury, other dangerous heavy metals and soot
– handed out Clean Air Act exemptions to allow 71 coal-fired power plants across 24 states to ignore pollution limits
– is moving to repeal limits on climate pollution from power plants
– giving out over $1 billion in subsidies to the coal industry to prop up existing uneconomic plants and build NEW ONES
– ordered the Department of War to buy electricity from coal plants
– Interior has also opened up 13 million acres of federal lands to coal mining
The US coal industry donated $10.5 Million to the 2024 election… over 97% to Repubicuns…
Great return on their investment!!!
Not even Mr Teach supports burning MORE coal!!!
Our Kentucky King Koaler no doubt supports burning MORE koal with fewer restrictions or safeguards. Every Konservative knows air pollution and global warming concerns are scams/hoaxes designed to transfer money and power from real men to the weak.
TL:DNR
Another Rimjob copy&paste.
Our madcap climate maven wrote:
Our Kentucky King Koaler’s farm is close to an abandoned rail line, a rail line which was primarily used to bring coal from the mines of eastern Kentucky to power plants to provide electricity for the people. With the almost total closure of those mines, eastern Kentucky has fallen into far worse poverty than before.
Coal mines were unionized, paying workers decent wages, supporting not only their families, but thousands of other families, as they patronized local businesses. Yeah, it’s nice not hearing the trains pass, but every train that used to pass by and no longer does means poorer families to the south and east of Old Creekmore Farm.¹
In 2019, in Derry, New Hampshire, then-former Vice President Joe Biden showed his sympathies for miners who had lost their jobs, saying “Anybody who can go down 3,000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as well… Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God’s sake!”
Well, damned few coal miners learned to code, many having no education past high school, if they even made it as far as graduation. It takes courage, and a strong body, to go down into a coal mine, but courage and a strong body do not translate into understanding math and computers and coding, and having to change professions after age thirty puts people in competition with younger men; they are already behind.
Two things have killed coal:
Of course, our good friends on the left oppose fracking, too, preferring to send Americans’ hard earned dollars to Saudi Arabia rather than in the United States, so if they ever get their stupid way and ban fracking, natural gas will become more expensive.
Our good friends on the left are so very, very good at telling us how we should run our lives, for our own good, don’t you know, but they never seem to see how the consequences of their policies affect Other People. Coal miners? Pfft! Who cares about them?
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¹ – As I went through the deed books for our humble abode, I found that this place was listed as the “Old Creekmore Farm” in 1906, before our house was even built.
Listen to “Paradise” by the late, great John Prine who spent summers with his grandparents in Muhlenberg County, KY. Paradise is a “ghost town” in Kentucky. Phenix MO is a “ghost town” where my daddy was born, “mined out” of marble decades ago.
Things change.
[Verse 1]
When I was a child my family would travel
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
And there’s a backwards old town that’s often remembered
So many times that my memories are worn
[Chorus]
And Daddy, won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County?
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I’m sorry, my son, but you’re too late in asking
Mister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away
[Verse 2]
Well, sometimes we’d travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Airdrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes we’d shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
Then the coal company came with the world’s largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man
[Chorus]
[Verse 4]
When I die, let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester Dam
I’ll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin’
Just five miles away from wherever I am
And Daddy, won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEy6EuZp9IY
Paradise by John Prine
Our good friends on the right are always telling us how to run our lives…. .
So that we can be more like them?
With high per capita crime and murder rates?
Shorter life spans and higher rates of suicide?
Old Creek ore Farm has a much more pastoral sound than Strunk KY
When I looked in Wiki it said that was the 3 no d poorest county in the USA yet for the last 100 days they always have voted Republican.Weird?
Renewable energy is now cheaper than me atufsl has AND coal with or without extra be osts hot emission control