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waste
December 20 to 31, 2005
Once again, modern kids give their opinions on classic video games. Star Wars: "There's no depth perception". Defender: "You
waste
d quarters in this?...
The sorry state of
waste
ful corporate packaging - the most over-packed item in history...
April 18 to 24, 2005
High-Tech Junk http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050420/ap_on_hi_te/earth_day_e_wast...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Don't
waste
paper or plastic when shopping - carry around a key chain tote bag...
But note that not all cars that
waste
gas are SUVs - here's the top ten gas-guzzling cars and trucks of 2005...
February 14 to 20, 2005
The arctic is becoming a "chemical
waste
sump" - there's DDT in higher concentrations there than in the countries that made it...
February 7 to 13, 2005
And this commercial outfit converts forest and agricultural
waste
s into biodiesel...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
I broke down and got one of the last iPod shuffles - the 1GB model - at the Ala Moana Apple store. Its competitors tout radio and recording capabilities, but on such gadgets the line-in recordin...
January 10 to 16, 2005
The big news in Kev's world this week was the introduction of the Mac mini - it's a small yet powerful box not much wider than a CD that supports pretty much any display, keyboard, and mouse for $500...
January 1 to 9, 2005
An architecture firm is turning the considerable amount of
waste
from Boston's massive Big Dig project into office buildings and groovy-looking modern housing...
November 15 to 21, 2004
"A New Vision for Nuclear
waste
"...
October 18 to 24, 2004
Once the Yucca Mountain 40,000-year nuclear
waste
repository opens in 2010, it will be 1/3 smaller than needed to store all the accumulated
waste
by then...
August 15 to 22, 2004
Idea of the Week: Nature Cemeteries What a great concept: there's less cost and
waste
for the industry, there's a pent-up demand, land is conserved (and preserved), and it's cheaper for consumers...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
There's a "50% chance" of a major accident while cleaning up the U.S.'s dirtiest nuclear site. And there's not enough room for the
waste
at the large Yucca Mountain site...
July 19 to 25, 2004
UH is building a plant
waste
processing facility that will net $100k a year by tunrning plant
waste
into charcoal...
May 17 to 23, 2004
Rupert Murdoch's first commercial
waste
-to-oil plant launched and makes 200 barrels a day from the turkey processing plant next door. It's 80% efficient and runs on its own energy...
May 10 to 16, 2004
More groovy green efforts from San Francisco: an ink jet cartridge recycler and an industrial composting company. This is a great model for cities to follow to get small businesses recycling compos...
April 19 to 25, 2004
2) Support blending ethanol with gasoline, and support the growth of local ethanol manufacturers. Which raw (
waste
) materials are cost-effective to import to Hawaii to produce ethanol? Does importin...
A company has found a way to develop ethanol from
waste
straw and wood chips on a commercial scale, a world first...
March 31, 2004
Hawaii Kai is one of the most garish neighborhoods I've seen. Hawaii is not Greece, Italy, or Hollywood. So why build faux (stucco, fenced-in, highly paved) structures which are neither here no...
March 15 to 21, 2004
There is NO excuse not to buy a PC (non-laptop) larger than a shoebox any more. Anything larger is
waste
ful, ugly, energy and noise polluting. Here's the Nanode, the first Nano-ITX-based PC...
March 1 to 7, 2004
"For the first time, a microbial fuel cell has generated electricity while cleaning
waste
water, a development that could make sewage treatment more affordable for both industrialized and developin...
November 3 to 9, 2003
You can read about one of their books, "Superbia!", a manual on transforming suburban
waste
lands into more community-oriented, sustainable villages... "I was amazed when my neighbor waved to me"...
September 8, 2003
Visionary architect Eugene Tsui Why generic "modernism" is a plague, and how to design a humane future: "Look at a box-shaped house - it
waste
s so much space and so much material, it is structurall...