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Improving on Perfection
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 On first hearing, the idea of renovating and redeveloping Waikïkï Beach sounds ludicrous. It’s simply impossible to improve on this world-famous tourist destination: the two-mile stretch of coast (the name of which means "spouting waters") is already perfect.
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Eco Modern
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 “It was a labor of love,” says Shane Jackson, director of environmental projects for Towne Development of Hawai‘i Inc a subsidiary of Zilber Ltd. He’s talking about the environmentally sensitive, custom home the company designed and built in Koa at Kehalani on Maui. “Everything from the initial research through the design and construction to our on-site recycling operation was carefully planned and thought out,” Jackson adds.
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Silver Creek Furnishings and Design
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 Just because a home building and design company’s name evokes the Old West, there’s no reason why that firm can’t open a flourishing branch in Maui—even though its headquarters happens to be located in Utah.
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Corey Yeaton
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 Silhouetted Frisbee players along the beach. Hidden waterfalls. Private beaches in river valleys. These are just some of the times and places that are captured by photographer Corey Yeaton as he patrols the Islands of Hawai'i.
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Mai'a
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 In Belgium recently, bureaucrats of the EU created a legal definition for the term "banana." As a valid commercial product, the fruit (they decided) must be at least 5.5 inches long, 1.1 inches wide, and "not abnormally bent." In other words, they recognize only industrial-age bananas—bland, uniform Chiquita-logs exported by the ton from Central America.
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Sutton/Archipelago (Paiko Lagoon home)
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 On O`ahu’s eastern flank, the Ko`olau Mountains reach out like ancient brown-green earth fingers towards the aquamarine waters of Maunalua Bay. A small road, Paiko Drive, follows one narrow peninsula that juts into the Paiko Lagoon Wildlife Sanctuary.
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Eco Awareness
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 Over the past year or so, "going green" has become a very big social trend, and also very big business. By now, almost every type of commercial entity from hybrid-powered automobile manufacturers to non-toxic cleaning product sellers are loudly proclaiming themselves part of the "Green Revolution."
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