After taking a one-month summer hiatus, Honolulu's NightMarket is back, promoting itself as a gathering place where sustainability and style come together. The market at the base of Aloha Tower features food, designs and products that are developed, produced or represented locally by small businesses in the Islands.

Participating groups all give back to the Islands. This month's fashion showcase is presented by the Ulupono Academy, a Paul Mitchell partner school — it's titled "Water: One Drop at a Time" and the theme is saving our planet's water resources for future generations.

Music is provided by L-Records, Hawai'i's first completely off-the-grid recording label, which generates all of its power through solar and wind. Fashion is coordinated by Hawai'i Fashion Incubator (Hifi), a nonprofit organization working to support local fashion designers.

Keeping with the local, natural theme, aerial performance will be presented by Samadhi Hawai'i and underwater photos from FreeSurf Magazine photographers Mike Latronic, Eric Baeseman and Tony Heff will be on display.

The NightMarket takes place from 5 to 10 p.m. Wednesday at the Waterfront at Aloha Tower. Admission is free.

— Advertiser staff

BUILDING GREEN

BAMBOO — A BEAUTIFUL, ELEGANT SUBSTITUTE

Most people don't know that bamboo is a grass and that it grows much faster than conventional building materials. On Edgy Lee's blog at lifeisgood.honadvblogs .com, you can watch a video clip produced by Pacific Network's green expert Ted Obringer to see how beautiful and elegant bamboo can be when used for flooring or furniture. There are companies who sell solid bamboo flooring in planks much like Pergo or hard-wood flooring that is much more expensive, and wouldn't you rather be using a material such as this instead of cutting down all those exotic trees from our rainforests only to be used as flooring and dining tables?

To read more and watch a video clip, visit Edgy Lee's blog at http://www.lifeisgood.honadvblogs.com. You can view the entire segment at http://www.news.pacificnetwork.tv/LifeIsGood.

— Pacific Network