1. Hawaii's Moon Shot.
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ENVIRONMENTALISM , *ENVIRONMENTAL policy , *ENVIRONMENTAL protection - Abstract
Jeffrey Mikulina, a longtime environmental activist in Hawaii, jokes that his home state, which is almost completely dependent on imported oil, is one supertanker away from being Amish. It also is one superheated ocean away from being underwater. There, in a nutshell, is the motivation behind a new campaign to wean Hawaii from fossil fuels in 10 years. The project is Hawaii's own moon mission, led by the Blue Planet Foundation and not by the state's political establishment, which tends to prefer the slow and tortured way to change (a long battle over a new commuter rail system was bogged down by a ferocious debate over whether it should have steel or rubber wheels). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2008