Trying to be Safe by Doing Nothing is No Longer Safe 

Editor's note: This is the first in a series of three columns on energy and food security by Richard Ha. Read Part 2, Expensive Electricity Threatens Hawaii's Food Security , and Part 3, What Works, Works .

I am Richard Ha, chairman of the board of Ku‘oko‘a. Ku‘oko‘a is trying to align the needs of Hawai‘i’s people with the needs of the electrical utility.

I want to start by telling you who I am and what my values are. My mom is Okinawan, Higa from Moloka‘i, and my Pop was half Korean and half Hawaiian. His mother was Leihulu Kamahele. Our family land was down the beach at Maku‘u in Puna. We were very poor but didn't know it.

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