Do You Want Environmental FACTS or Polls? -Honolulu Hawaii Relocations & Information

You ever notice how different the polls are from different magazines, groups and so forth that have different statistics for different cities? One thing I noticed is that Hawaii never seems to be on those nationwide statistics for like cleaner air, schools or even being ‘green'.

So I did a little research and had to literally type in Hawaii...clean air and stuff like that. I guess because we're out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean we aren't considered part of the nation or something. NOT! We are just as important and play a vital part in Hawaii Military Relocations and Hawaii Job Transfers and Moves to Hawaii no matter what the reason.

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Following are some "statistics" from different sites and such for "pertinent" opinions on what rank Hawaii and Honolulu County play in this game of "nationwide" polls.

• According to the Brookings Institution they announced that Honolulu is the greenest city in the nation. Reason? Honolulu, Hawaii generated the lowest amount of pollution from carbon dioxide and this stat was taken amongst 100 top metro areas around the United States. (this same statistic is displayed in our own Star Bulletin News here>)
• According to "Can Do- Greater Reno-Tahoe" area site: Hawaii ranks NUMBER ONE for the best place to raise a family. Why? Education spending is tops and ....why else but for our beaches?
• According to the Hawaii Government site: This past January, Governor Lingle announced the Hawai‘i Clean Energy Initiative, an unprecedented and innovative partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) that aims to have at least 70 percent of Hawai‘i's power come from clean energy by 2030. Hawai‘i is the only state in the nation to have signed this type of partnership.
• The Sierra Club - Hawaii's site says: "The Hawaii state legislature passed a landmark measure on May 1 that would make the state the first in the nation to require solar water heaters as a standard feature on all new homes. The solar roofs bill, which received unanimous support in the House and only two dissenting votes in the Senate, was the top priority of the Hawaii Sierra Club this legislative session"

Another story from the Star Bulletin on the Solar Water Heaters: ......Gov. Linda Lingle approved a bill on June 26, 2008 that makes Hawaii the first state to require solar water heaters in new single-family homes starting in 2010......

Bottom line: If you want to get specific statistics AND FACTS on your health, quality of life, water etc. go to specific sites within your State Government, City & County sites and so forth.

• The Honolulu Board of Water Supply Report Search for YOUR AREA Click and search by your neighborhood and find out about the water quality in YOUR neighborhood.

Here's the report for: MILILANI WELLS

Pretty cool huh?

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Environmental Health ......" Hawaii State Department of Health is entrusted to protect the health of Hawai`i residents through the protection of the state's environment and through regulation of goods, services, and facilities used by the general public. The following links provide information about DOH programs and other relevant environmental information".

• Air Quality
• Compliance Assistance Office
• Office of Environmental Quality Control
• Environmental Planning Office
• Food and Drug
• Recycling Information
• Sanitation
• Solid and Hazardous Waste
• Vector Control
• Water Quality

I do believe that we get better FACTS from these departments rather than a poll from magazines and such. It's kind of like "nationwide statistics for housing markets". Doesn't work.

WE NEED LOCAL information for each state, county and neighborhood.

Thank goodness for www.localism.com where we are contributing QUALITY content for the public. WE KNOW our communities and get the facts and give them to you...with our OWN written words.

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