Friday, April 18th – From HPR2, it’s The Conversation
Dairy Farm on Kauai, Ulupono Initiative: Amy Hennessey
Earlier this week, we noted the recent community backlash to a project of the proposed dairy farm on Kauai. It’s a project of the Ulupono Initiative and we talked with one of the residents leading the opposition to the plan as it exists now. Shortly afterward we heard from the Ulupono Initiative's director of communications, Amy Hennessey. She said there was erroneous information in the conversation and she joined the show to explain.
Intro Music: Come With Me Now by KONGOS
Outro Music: Love Unlimited by Enemies
Rain Garden Resources: Todd Cullison
Todd Cullison, Executive of Director of Hui o Koolaupoko, a non-profit organization whose mission is to protect ocean health by restoring the aina, mauka to makai. He 's a proponent of constructing rain gardens. A rain garden is a shallow depression of deep-rooted plants that captures rainwater runoff, allowing it to percolate to our water table and prevent it from reaching and polluting Hawaii’s oceans.
Intro Music: Do I Wanna Know by Arctic Monkeys
Outro Music: One Glass of Water by Black Square
Aspirin and Prostate Cancer Study: Dr. Stephen Chun
Could aspirin improve the overall survival rate of patients with prostate cancer? That was a question a doctor with a Hawaii connection and his team asked. Dr. Stephen Chun is the co author of a just published study in the journal Landes Bioscience. Dr Chun now lives and does research in Dallas where he joined the show by phone.
Intro Music: Bad Blood by Bastille
Outro Music: We’ll Never Meet This Young Again by Dorena
Pre Earth Day Update: Kahi Pacarro
50,000 pounds of trash, that’s how much Kahi Pacarro and his group Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii have removed along with 6500 volunteers in 30 different cleanup events in the past 3 years. What’s the biggest problem, well, if it’s made of plastic, it’s going to be around for a long time, detrimental to our environment, and not eco-friendly. In advance of the Earth Day celebration, Kahi Pacarro would like each of us, every day, to make our communities cleaner for this generation and the next.
Intro Music: 1957 by Milo Greene
Outro Music: Earthboy by Diiv
