Green Business in Hawaii, Sheep Poo PaperTM and more at the Sustainability for Business Forum
I spoke today at the Sustainability for Business Forum on Oahu today. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii and Sponsored by First Wind and Ulupono Initiative.
Ramsay Taum from the UH School of Travel Industry Management is always a great speaker and this time was no exception. He spoke about the Hawaiian values based perspective on current environmental issues and made us all feel “lucky we live Hawaii.”
Representative Hermina Morita is such and intelligent and beautiful woman, I could have listed to her speak all day long. She combined the spiritual, environmental and political into a great talk on poi and energy policy! (Really, you just had to be there!)
It was also interesting to get caught up on what is happening with energy policy in our state from Colton Ching from Hawaiian Electric Company, Michael Chang from Hawaii Energy, and Ted Peck from DBEDT.
Erwin Hudelist, owner of Hagadone Printing was a total character and, of course, a great model of sustainable business in Hawaii.
Tyler Mongan of the Honu Guide and Nella Media Group spoke about marketing strategies for the green business and communicating to the green consumer. Sheep Poo Paper TM is what is really sticking in my mind from Tyler’s presentation. I know he had a lot of great statistics and all, but it is pretty hard to get Sheep Poo Paper TM out of your mind once you hear about it. (Take a marketing lesson folks.)
Kyle Datta and Robin Campaniano spoke on behalf of the Ulupono Initiative, a social investment initiative focused in the areas of local food, waste reduction and renewable energy.
I spoke about the Business Case for Sustainability and using the Natural Step framework for Sustainability Strategic Planning.
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October 17th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
Hi,
I am one of the founding partners of Sheep Poo PaperTM.
A couple of things – firstly, thank you so much for your kind words about our marketing, to know that we are a topic for discussion as far away as the beautiful island of Hawaii is very heartening!
Secondly, can I ask that you add the TM trademark suffix to your use of our trademark?
Very kindest regards
Lawrence Toms, BA, LLM, Dip. EIPIN
CREATIVE PAPER WALES
mob: +44 (0)7870 418745
email: lawrence@creativepaperwales.co.uk
website: http://www.CreativePaperWales.co.uk
“You can take the paper out of Wales, but you can’t take Wales out of the paper”
November 1st, 2009 at 2:46 pm
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