CleanTechnica’s First Sustainability Expo & Electric Home Show

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CleanTechnica produced the first ever Electric Home Show at the Blaisdell Expo Hall in Honolulu, HI, in April this year. It was … fun AF. As sustainability truly is.

There were about 75 eco-friendly vendors ranging from EV/hybrid repair shops to ebike vendors to farm-to-table restaurants to solar to battery to whole house fan to … you name it. A green home show, through and through. There were 12 vehicles on display in the EV showcase, 7 more to test drive, lots of tech on demonstration, including a Bluetti powered bounce house for kids and a portable battery-to-induction cooking demo.

In all, about 1200 people came, 10 talks were given (including the legendary Bill McKibben giving a keynote), thousands of connections were made, clean energy advanced, and truth was told. The best way to dispel myths about clean energy that are put forth by special interest groups is to let people touch, see, and experience clean technologies for themselves, and this was a gigantic demonstration of all the good things that can help shift Hawaii, and the world, away from expensive, dirty fuels and into a clean, affordable, and resilient future.

Check out the video above, and let us know your thoughts in the comments below!

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Scott Cooney

Scott Cooney (LinkedIn) is a serial eco-entrepreneur focused on making the world a better place for all its residents. Scott is the founder of CleanTechnica and was just smart enough to hire someone smarter than him to run it. He then started Pono Home, a service that greens homes, which has performed efficiency retrofits on more than 20,000 homes and small businesses, reducing carbon pollution by more than 27 million pounds a year and saving customers more than $6.3 million a year on their utilities. Scott wanted to contribute to native ownership of the clean energy revolution, so he gifted Pono Home to a long tenured employee with native Hawaiian roots for just the liquidation value, turning down a mainland company interested in purchasing the company. In a previous life, Scott was an adjunct professor of Sustainability in the MBA program at the University of Hawai'i, a consultant at Saatchi & Saatchi S, where he worked with a team to educate and empower millions of employees to live healthier and more sustainably. He is the author of Build a Green Small Business: Profitable Ways to Become an Ecopreneur (McGraw-Hill) , and Green Living Ideas. Scott is an occasional investor, currently he has investments in Rivian (RIVN).

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