Homeless in Hawaii

Homelessness in Waikiki - HawaiiBusiness
http://www.hawaiibusiness.com/homelessness-in-waikiki/

“'There are homeless people who come here in the winter months, just as tourists who come here when the mainland weather is brutal,' says Colin Kippen, the state’s homelessness coordinator.

But these Waikiki snowbirds usually don’t return home and they comprise a large part of Waikiki’s homeless, say Kippen and others who serve the homeless in Waikiki."

Uruguay's unique cow-tagging system

Uruguay's world first in cattle farming - BBC

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-30210749

Cool NASA video on oceans

This video is shows some cool insights into the oceans and how we view them with satellites.

Climate Change and Global Oceans
http://pmm.nasa.gov/education/videos/climate-change-and-global-ocean

Christmas in Japan means... Kentucky Fried Chicken and strawberry shortcake

Christmas in Japan means... Kentucky Fried Chicken and strawberry shortcake

Christmas Cheer Here Requires Reservations With The Colonel
http://www.wsj.com/articles/christmas-cheer-here-requires-reservations-with-the-colonel-1450477246

2015 Southeast Asian haze

Indonesia haze fueling major health problems
http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2015/10/28/indonesia-haze-crisis-smog-sater-lklv.cnn

Indonesia's forest fires costing more than the 2004 tsunami
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/15/indonesia-forest-fires-cost-twice-as-much-as-tsunami-clean-up-says-world-bank

Slash-and-burn farming caused a haze in 2015 across Southeast Asia.

"Fire has long been a popular way of quickly and cheaply clearing land on Indonesia’s Sumatra island and the Indonesian part of Borneo, to make way for lucrative palm oil plantations...

But the fires burn out of control and produce noxious haze during the months-long dry season, particularly when started on carbon-rich peatland...

So on the one hand 16 billion dollars cost to the public, on the other hand, eight billion dollars – lots of money – to a handful of individuals,” said World Bank environmental specialist Ann Jeannette Glauber...

"More than half a million people suffered acute respiratory infections in Indonesia, while many in neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia also fell ill."


Riau province, Sumatra, Indonesia

Vanatu's underwater post office
http://www.padi.com/blog/2013/08/13/underwater-post-office-vanuatu/

Where is Vanatu again? Near Fiji in the Melanesia region of the South Pacific.

This is an interesting radio show in Spanish about a new Traditional and Alternative Medicine program in Rosario, Argentina that connects urban farming with health clinics:

-the city Dept. of Health buys medicinal plants from small farmers in Rosario's pioneering Urban Farming Program
-Dept. of Health makes those plants available for free at local health clinics. Currently the plants are available as herbal infusions, later they will available also as soaps, oils, syrups, herbal medicines, and other products.

A lot of the medicinal plants they mention I've never heard of--and I thought I had heard of a lot.

Una medicina más integral

http://www.unr.edu.ar/noticia/7794/una-medicina-mas-integral