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Here is a project you can do with the kids.  A Hi-5 Recycle Encourager. It’s easy and fun. It sure makes it easier for those who dig through the city rubbish bin for those aluminum can and plastic bottles.  I spotted this one at the layover stop for bus No.13 on Monsaratt Avenue. Material: 5′x3′ [...]

There should be no excuse that you are still shopping at the super market for your produce, fruit and vegetable. Yes, KCC Saturday Market is little too early and sometimes too crowded for a lazy start of the weekend morning. But farmer’s markets are spouting in different neighborhoods for your convenient. A list of farmer’s [...]

Reduce energy consumption by 5 to 12% and lower electric bills without yelling at your kids to turn off the light or turn down the music. Sounds too good to be true, but it is. Did you know that eletricity from your local utility company comes into your house and business in a wide range [...]

Attention home owner builders. Building a new addition and you can’t find a good window that match the existing double hung windows? Looking for siding material that you can use to replace a few of your termite eaten wall panel? Try Re-use Hawaii Warehouse at Kakaako. They help people dismantle their buildinsg and so you [...]

Jenifer Miholen – local sustainabilility advocate. Seven Generations Natural Builders – promote regional local natural material and for Hawaii, that would be timber, stone and bamboo. MA’O Organic Farms where Wai’anae youth and community members pratice timber-framing and natural plaster. Malia Morales, director of curiculum, assessment and new programs at MA’O.  See full article at [...]

Sorry, I have to short hand this April 15, 2009 Honolulu Weekly article: Bill Mollison & David Holmgren, permanent + agriculture = permaculture.  Book Permaculture One, 1978, reducing waste by designing ecosystems that are  self-contained; Glenn Martinez + wife Liz, Waimanalo farm,Olomana Garden, fish, worms, gravity, manure; aquaponics.  chickens, goats, rabbits, ducks, horses, dogs, blue worms, organic [...]

Everyone has green on their mind lately and especially the construction industry.    Sweets-green  BuildingGreen.com GreenBuildExpo.org CSINET.org GreenTV USGBC.org GreenSource University of Hawaii  (last modified May 2004) PACRC Hawaii Core Region Plan

Real estate hunting on bike.  Better viewing of the properties.  Better for the environment. Good call John.  John Stallings of Keller Williams Realty is conducting green real estate tours down on Kailua side.  It not a tour of green real estate but more  a real estate that is green – on bike that is.  Every Second & Fourth [...]

We have an explosion of green tech company in Hawaii. Some start-ups and some have been here for decades. Check them out. Hau-Energy, Ocean-It, Suntech, 21th Century Technologies , Sopogy, Humdinger Windbelt, Energy Industries, Pacific Biodiesel, Organizations: USGBC Hawaii Not Local but still good Earthtech AECOM, Microplanet

Stormy weather at the Ala Wai Golf Course Check this out.  Ala Wai Golf Course driving range after the storm.  Is that a duck swimming in the “pond”? Picture by Hiram Pajo.