Coveting Waikiki penthouse with view

The same week we hear news of the company Landed entering the market to “share” the investment with a teacher who can’t otherwise afford to buy a home, there’s this: Six penthouses in the luxe Ritz-Carlton Residences, Waikiki Beach, are being sold as a fractional-ownership club.

Read: time-share condos for the ultra-wealthy. The owership program will start at $700,000 for four weeks. It’s a million-dollar, 270-degree view.

Not that there’s class envy embedded in this reaction. Not much.

Breathe easier with air-quality app

It’s fitting that the launch of a website detailing air quality in “near real-time” coincides with the anniversary of the start of a spectacular three-month eruption in Kilauea’s lower East Rift Zone.

The state Department of Health says the resource, which includes an interactive map and charts potential health impacts in a six-tiered, color-coded system, can be especially useful in future vog-spewing events. The DOH tapped $1.5 million in federal and state funds to expand and upgrade the state’s air quality monitoring system, which now consists of 18 air quality monitoring stations statewide, with a majority on Hawaii island.