Brian Schatz

Asia Pacific Resilience Innovation Summit Looks to Address Clean Tech, Military, and Island Community Sustainability

Next month’s Asia Pacific Resilience Innovation Summit and Expo will be a showcase of resiliency, specifically for the Asia/Pac region, which includes a lot of island economies, as well as large military infrastructural needs. The event, in Honolulu, Hawaii, will take place August 24-26th, and is a good place for … [continued]

Al Gore On Climate Change Crisis

Originally published on Green Living Ideas. Former Vice President Al Gore delivered a powerful address to a packed house at the Stan Sheriff Center at the University of Hawaii at Manoa this week. Environmentally, Gore is most famous, perhaps, for his 2006 speaking tour and subsequent documentary called An Inconvenient Truth, … [continued]

Hawaii’s Largest Wind Power Project Now Under Construction

  Hawaii’s largest wind power project, the 69-megawatt (MW) Kawailoa Wind project on Kamehameha Schools’ Kawailoa Plantation lands on Oahu’s North Shore, is now under construction. The wind power project will include thirty 2.3-MW Siemens wind turbines, which will produce enough electricity to power approximately 14,500 homes on Oahu Island, approximately 5% … [continued]