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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′ [...]

Lazy man’s Hurricane preparation list cash gas pills food water containers plywood rope batteries If you are like me, never like to prepare for thing like the hurricane. Just wait for a Hurricane/Tropical Storm Watch. Usually it means that you will still have 48 hours before a possible hurricane/tropical storm that will hit in your [...]

Check out this old world business concept repackaged for the new world called Natural Capitalism. You too can run your business with this concept application. You can see fragments of the concept in our business world and it is a matter of time when it will be integrated common business practice. Replicable, biological models with closed loops and [...]

All new homes built in Kapahulu area after September 2009 will include some form of sustainable components. Aloha, home owners and developers: building (or renovating) homes that are green don’t have to be so difficult anymore. All the research has been done for you. Check out the three major green home promoters below. It is [...]

We have pikake hand soap, lotion, and perfume. Could we have cologne of maile fragrant? Purely Hawaii’s own. A must for a travelers to take back to their hometown. A light reminder of their stays on the island. A must for a hotel sample pack. http://www.tropicalfragrances.worldtradeunltd.com/

We are born burden of the world. (May be that’s why God said we are all born sinners) You can live your life as a big burden or a little burden. Turn on every light in the house or just enough to do your tasks. Take a 30 minutes shower or just 5. Buy a [...]

I was thinking about Hawaiian motif belt buckle this morning. http://www.iolanipalace.org/history/military.html I was thinking about fashion last week. How can aloha attire tradition be a tradition when it started only back in July 15, 1936 by Mr. Chun? A 73 years tradition? A three generations tradition? I suspect it is time to welcome a new [...]

After a lunch conversation on Alex Drive-Inn at our current Wasabi location. A real drive-inn of sort with waitress in rolling skates, serving food with tray mounted to you mobile window. I quickly Google search Alex Drive-Inn and results in many nostalgia posts about the Avenue. People had fond memory of past eateries and play [...]

Just ventured off to instructables.com and posted my first do it yourself project.  My project – a grunge style ipod holder made from a leg of a pair of jeans. This would be a perfect gift for your have-it-all friend.  Among other things you can learn to made are rain water collector, solar oven, moss grafitti…

Hot shower seems to consume a whole lot of energy compare to some of the other household activities. Shorter showers and/or cold showers can easily equate to all of the other energy saving tactics combined. Varies energy saving tactics in shower time equivalent Use Power strip to eliminate energy sneaker = 4 seconds (50kWh, $7 [...]