Check out my new story in this month’s Innov8 magazine (the Go!/Mokulele in flight magazine) about The Natural Step framework. The Natural Step is a framework/process that helps companies and communities plan for sustainability. The County of Hawaii just adopted The Natural Step as it’s framework for sustainability planning.
I was recently a speaker at the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii 4th Annual Sustainability For Business Forum on Oahu. I spoke about the Business Case for Sustainability and using the Natural Step framework for Sustainability Strategic Planning.
An interview with Forrest Arnold of HawaiiGreenRealty.com. Forrest is a certified EcoBroker and I spoke to him about the emergence of environmentalism in the real estate industry, what green realty is and what an EcoBroker can do for you.
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I recently got some new Top Hat chickens. They are especially funny because of their cool feather hairdos. I thought I had all hens, but yesterday one of the chickens started sounding a lot like a rooster. Which one is it? I have not been able to identify the cock in the hen house as of yet.
I may be a bit biased, since I was the Mistress of Ceremonies for the day, but I must say that the Kuleana Green Business Conference on the Big Island of Hawaii was great.
Keynote speaker Joel Makower (pictured at left), author of Strategies for a Green Economy and Chairman and Executive Editor, Greener World Media, which includes the popular GreenBiz.com, was great. Joel gave us a witty and incisive overview of today’s green economy.
Don Schaeffer, CEO of RSF Social Finance and founder of Comet Skateboards, was the other keynote speaker. Don had a conversation with us about the local economy movement, starting and running a sustainable business, and the revolutionary work of RSF Social Finance.
All of the speakers and panelists were great. I wish I could summarize it all for you, but next year you will just have to come! Here are links:
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Joel Makower, author of Strategies for the Green Economy and owner of greenbiz.com
Don Shaffer, CEO of RSF Social Finance and founder of Comet Skateboards
SPEAKERS
James Koshiba, Kanu Hawaii
Myah Ely, Sustainability Association of Hawaii
PANELS
Renewable Energy
Algae- and Soil-Based Biofuels, Hydrogen, and Geothermal Energy
Kyle Datta, New Energy Partners
Mike Kaleikini, Puna Geothermal Venture
Kelly King, Pacific Biodiesel
Joelle Simonpietri, Simonpietri Enterprises
Guy Toyama, H2 Technologies
Mike Kane, Plug In America
Henk Rogers, Blue Planet Foundation
Sustainable & Community-Supported Agriculture & Agroforestry
Chuck Barker, True Offsets
Tane Datta, Adaptations
Ben Discoe, Slow Food Hawaii
Susanne Friend, Friendly Aquaponics
Claire Sullivan, Whole Foods
Green Building, Real Estate, and Development
Olani Lilly, Kanu O Ka Aina’s LEED facility
Bo Kahui, Kealakehe 2020
Megan MacArthur, MacArthur & Company/Sotheby’s International Realty
Lauren Roth, Roth Ecological Design
John Steuber, HPM
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