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HI-5 Recycle Encourager

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′ [...]

Natural Capitalism for all of us

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 [...]

maile cologne

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/

Gourmet Cafeteria Dinner

School cafeteria are always idle half the time. It only service breakfast and lunch for students. So it take an outside-the-box-thinking to use it to prepare for dinner for busy families. Could the DOE rent out their cafeteria kitchen for non-profit or small business start up to make up the deficit? Michi Harris, Star of [...]

Walking Tours for Kapahulu?

Walking tours for downtown is fun. Anyone consider doing one for Kapahulu, Diamond Head or Waikiki district? History of the royalty playground of Kapiolani park, the sell out of the waterfront land fronting Kapiolani Park, the making of the Ala Wai Canal, the Chinese migration into Kapahulu, the military present at the Diamond Head crater [...]