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April 25 to May 1, 2005
Now classified military research is making inroads into the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Dozens of students and faculty have occupied the administration
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ing in a rare sit-in...
46 benefits of
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ing green...
April 11 to 17, 2005
Hey, developers - check out the Green
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ing Products directory...
April 4 to 10, 2005
Camping in the snow?
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a big, warm igloo with this light, packable mathematically-correct device...
March 14 to 20, 2005
Using the BlueSniper rifle, hackers were able to extract information from PDAs and cell phones from people in the U.S. Bank
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ing in L.A. from over a mile away...
This photographer is doing a booming business capturing 144 megapixel photos - they're so sharp that a picture of an entire
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ing can be used to inspect cracks...
March 7 to 13, 2005
Meanwhile, Wal-Mart sidesteps a town ordinance limiting store size by
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ing two Wal-Marts next to each other...
Folks are
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ing robots that learn from the collective behavior of ants...
"The most comprehensive video ever made on the design and construction of a green home": http://www.
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ingwithawareness.com/Movies2.htm...
The world's thinnest
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ing, with a very colorful history...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Adobe open sources software that can be used to
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systems with complex dependency graphs...
February 21 to 27, 2005
However, all this luxury island
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ing is (temporarily?) destroying Dubai's natural environment...
The new 1-kilometer high Solar Tower, which could power 200,000 homes, has found a
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ing site in Australia. This got a lot of press this week...
How to
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a beautiful 136 foot-high ice wall. A picture...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Today's Web designers should learn how to use the XMLHttpRequest object to
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highly dynamic interfaces like Google Maps, Google Suggest, and Gmail...
Dubai is
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ing the world's biggest waterfront development - it's 2.5 times the size of D.C....
January 1 to 9, 2005
An architecture firm is turning the considerable amount of waste from Boston's massive Big Dig project into office
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ings and groovy-looking modern housing...
November 22 to 28, 2004
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your own gramophone with these Japanese kits - etch grooves on CDs and plastic cups and play them back...
November 15 to 21, 2004
The World Wildlife Fund is
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ing a 6,000 structure "eco-city"...
October 11 to 17, 2004
"Tutorial D" looks like a great replacement for the aging, flawed SQL database language. I hope it takes off! http://dbapp
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er.sourceforge.net/Rel.htm...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Surprise of the Week: having money doesn't make you happy (and it doesn't
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strong societies either)...
September 20 to 26, 2004
A new report finds that wood is one of the most environmentally-sensitive
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ing materials...
August 22 to 29, 2004
The first interior commercial space in Hawaii to get gold certification from the U.S. Green
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ing Council...
The White Stripes' guitarist Jack White teamed up with Loretta Lynn to launch what some are calling the best album of her career - and it may change the sound of modern country towards alternative an...
August 8 to 14, 2004
What to do about the War Memorial/Natatorium on Kaimana Beach, an unlabeled hazardous collapsing eyesore that's confused tourists and annoyed locals for 25 years? The one that will cost untol...
Over the last few years developer Kenneth Hughes has proposed an ambitious redevelopment plan, which would replace the nearby HECO power plant with a real parking garage and
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apartments...
August 2 to 8, 2004
A new
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ing system is making polystyrene homes for the re
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ing effort in Afghanistan...
Amsterdam needs cheap temporary housing for 7,000 college students quickly! A developer is
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ing a temporary, modular, and easily moveable student city made of 1,000 40-foot cargo containers...
Semi-transparent solar panels can be used as a new
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ing material and video projection surface, and they generate 3.8 watts per square foot...
July 19 to 25, 2004
The latest thinking in dualmode transports - a truck that runs on wheels and rails. Why not use one to transport people from Honolulu to Kapolei instead of
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ing a second level...
UH is
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ing a plant waste processing facility that will net $100k a year by tunrning plant waste into charcoal...
Photo/video folks!
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your own bottlecap tripod...
July 5 to 11, 2004
A new type of affordable condo complex with intelligently designed 347 square-foot spaces. I'd rather see a
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ing like this than (yet) another rundown concrete brick apartment in Hawaii any day...
May 10 to 16, 2004
In 18 months Kaufmann designed six versions of her prefab "Glidehouse", making use of recyclable, energy-efficient materials. It's designed to accommodate solar panels and looks and feels like ...
April 5 to 11, 2004
"Easy-to-use unit converts scrap wood to electricity" http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/04/09/
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/business/30-wood2electric.in...
March 31, 2004
Hawaii Kai is one of the most garish neighborhoods I've seen. Hawaii is not Greece, Italy, or Hollywood. So why
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faux (stucco, fenced-in, highly paved) structures which are neither here no...
The last two years have seen a rise in co-housing and prefabricated architecture projects in Europe and the U.S.. Thanks to the support of cutting-edge shelter magazines such as Dwel...
These projects are perfect for Hawaii - they are low-cost, replaceable, expandible/evolveable, tough, and designed beautifully with a sense of environment. A number of them incorporat...
"
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ing modernism on a pre-fab budget...
If local architects aren't willing to follow that cue, at least here's a translucent concrete material that can make
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ings appear light and airy instead:...
Looking at the other side of the world, here's an overview of China's recent massive architectural works: "...the
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ing boom sweeping over China has no precedent in human history." They're usin...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
A-POC ("A Piece of Cloth"): Seamless clothing A new manufacturing method is changing how clothes are made by making ready-to-wear seamless clothes out of a single piece of cloth. This process ca...
This was widely circulated last week. Lots of ammo
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ing up on both side of the issue...
March 15 to 21, 2004
Due to biological and technological constraints, there is an optimum number to group sizes. Some fascinating discussion about group dynamics, community
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ing, bureaucracy, and organizations...
March 1 to 7, 2004
To save money, school systems and other organizations are
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ing their own DIY fiber networks and selling off the excess bandwidth instead of paying up the nose to regional operators (such a...
November 17 to 23, 2003
A working nano-transistor has been self-assembled using biology for the first time. A first step to
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ing self-assembling molecular computers...
September 30, 2003
The most phallic
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ing in the world and more...
September 2, 2003
LEDs and the future of the light bulb: "If the world switches over to LEDs rapidly enough, it could obviate the need to
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more than 100 power plants between now and 2020...