Ever wonder about the carbon footprint of the pair of imported shoes you just purchased? Or the Chilean grapes you bought at the fruit store? Well, RFID is playing a greater role in carbon tracking, a movement that is bound to gain steam in the wake of the incredulous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. [...]

A lot of readers contacted me for more details about last week’s story on tagging Koa trees in Hawaii. Now that Darrell Fox, COO at Hawaiian Legacy Hardwoods, has returned from the remote Koa plantation in on the slopes of Mauna Kea, I was able to get some answers about tagging methods. As for how [...]

Received some great feedback from last week’s article about the use of RFID to tag individual Koa trees on a plantation on Hawaii. The RFID tree tracking database being developed by Hawaiian Legacy Hardwoods (HLH) will allow investors in the HLH Koa reforestation project to track and monitor the progress of their investment in real [...]

Tree huggers will clearly love this one. In a first-of-its kind application, Hawaiian Legacy Hardwoods (HLH) is in the process of implementing an RFID tree tracking database so that investors in the HLH Koa reforestation project can track and monitor the progress of their investments in real time. About 20,000 trees have already been tagged. [...]