Bytemarks

Several days have gone by since spending the Solstice day at Nualolo on Kauai. Being back in the urban life of Honolulu it’s easy to see the contrast of place. As obvious as it is, I am still processing what it all means. We live in the city but the brief moment we spend in [...]

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June 21, 2009 marks the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. It is the tilt of the earth’s axis that causes this long day and as soon as it happens we pass into a period of shortening days. It is the transition from one period into the next. For seven years, my friend [...]

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Back on the Sept. 3, 2008 episode of Bytemarks Cafe, Ryan and I had a chance to talk to Marcus Eriksen and Joel Paschal about the Junk Kraft and their voyage into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This Pacific Gyre or Vortex is an area northeast of Hawaii where the currents swirl and collect the [...]

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