University Uses Tesla Technology to Wirelessly Charge Buses
Utah State University presented a first-of-its-kind electric bus that is charged through a high-power, high-efficiency wireless power transfer system. By carefully applying a mix of modern advances in engineering and Nikola Tesla’s principles of induction, USU engineer Hunter Wu and his team have solved one of today’s vexing problems in WPT.
Free Two-day Rain Garden Workshop
A free two-day workshop on design and creation of Rain Gardens for K-12 Educators, School Garden Coordinators, County representatives, and the interested public will be presented at UHMC by the Sustainable Living Institute of Maui (SLIM), the Water Institute for Sustainability Education (WISE), and Roth Ecological Design International LLC.
On April 27 and 28, from 9am to 4pm, attendees will learn the ins and outs of rain gardens and how they can be applied as tools in the management of storm water. The second day will be completely hands-on, as attendees learn teaching strategies while helping with the installation of a rain garden in the new SLIM UHMC Community Garden at UHMC.
The instructor, Lauren Roth, of Roth Ecological Design International, works exclusively in creative water management. She has won numerous prizes for her innovative designs for beautiful and effective storm water harvesting.
The first day of the workshop will be held in a classroom, and the second day will be held in the SLIM Community Garden. Attendees can sign up for either day or both days. Call 984-3379 to register and for further information.
Building a Solar Economy: 4 Lessons from Hawaii
Electric companies and solar developers throughout the nation are watching Hawaii, which derives a larger fraction of its electricity from the sun than any other state.
Phone Book Recycling to Support Schools
Cash prizes awarded to the top five schools that receive most phone books.
The graphic lists the locations and times for Phone Book recycling.
Here’s a list of schools that signed up for the contest.
Please be sure to let the staff at the recycling center know which school you would like to have credited.
Emmanuel Lutheran School
Haiku Elementary School
Hana School
Kula Elementary School
Maui High
Montessori School of Maui
Pomaika’i Elementary School
Pukalani Elementary School
Community Budget Meetings to Discuss Future of Maui Recycling Centers
The following meetings will be held across Maui county to hear the Mayor’s proposals and to gather public opinion about the future of the county recycling program.
Kihei
Monday, April 1, 2013
6:00 p.m. Budget Meeting
Kihei Community Center
Makawao-Haiku-Paia District
Thursday, April 4, 2013
6:00 p.m. Budget Meeting
Paia Community Center
Hana, East Maui District
Monday, April 8, 2013
6:00 p.m. Budget Meeting
Helene Social Hall
Pukalani-Kula-Ulupalakua Upcountry District
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
6:00 p.m. Budget Meeting
Mayor Hannibal Tavares Comm. Center, Social Hall
Lahaina, West Maui District
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
6:00 p.m. Budget Meeting
Lahaina Civic Center
Wailuku-Waihee-Waikapu and Kahului Districts
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
6:30 p.m. Budget Meeting
Lihikai Elementary School
335 South Papa Ave.
Kahului
Molokai District
Monday, April 15, 2013
6:00 p.m. Budget Meeting
Mitchell Pauole Center
Lanai District
Friday, April 12, 2013
6:00 p.m. Budget Meeting
Lanai Senior Center
19-Year-Old Student Develops Ocean Cleanup Array That Could Remove 7,250,000 Tons Of Plastic From the Worlds Oceans
The device consists of an anchored network of floating booms and processing platforms that could be dispatched to garbage patches around the world. Instead of moving through the ocean, the array would span the radius of a garbage patch, acting as a giant funnel. The angle of the booms would force plastic in the direction of the platforms, where it would be separated from plankton, filtered and stored for recycling.
“we estimate that by selling the plastic retrieved from the 5 gyres, we would make in fact more money than the plan would cost to execute. In other words; it’s profitable.”
How to Reverse Climate Change by Greening the Worlds deserts
In this March 3, 2013 TED talk, Allan Savory proposes that most global climate change is due, much more than from use of fossil fuels, to grasslands becoming deserts in over half of the land mass of the world. But, he also shows how, contrary to our preconceptioins, grazing animals can, and are actually restore the deserts back to grasslands.
