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Ted Liu - Hawaii Clean Energy Day

Ted Liu is the Director of the Hawai‘i State Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism (DBEDT). In that role, he provides the leadership and direction to fulfill DBEDT's mission: to support business, create jobs, and improve Hawai‘i's standard of living by diversifying the economy, expanding existing businesses, and developing new economic activity.

Hawaii Clean Energy Day took place on June 6th 2009, presented by the University of Hawai'i at Manoa's Hawai'i Energy Policy Forum and Outreach College, in cooperation with Blue Planet Foundation. click here to comment

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I happened to see a Re-Use Hawaii truck today. It had their website painted on it, so I decided to check it out. They re-use building materials to keep them out of the landfill. Check it out Regina Gregory EcoTipping Points Project
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Elizabeth Speith added an eventon Thursday
July 3, 2009 at 6pm to July 5, 2009 at 7pm
Service trip participants will backpack into the crater to a cabin or campsite and back. Depending upon the trip, the group will perform one of a number of tasks ranging from cabin maintenance to native planting to invasive species removal. An Int...
Elizabeth Speith updated their profileon Thursday
Lauren Carter-Roth Venu added a videoon Thursday
Roth Ecological Design--Natural Systems Technologies
This video explores the connection between indigenous cultures and ecologically engineered technologies and their applications for integrated food production and sustainable wastewater and stormwater treatment.
Oahu Early Detection added 3 blog postson Thursday
Andrea Dean commented on Andrea Dean's blog post 'Can you help me come up with a catchy name for my new Green Biz Class Series?'June 30
Hi Keith, Here is the link to my class information. http://www.andreadean.com/contact.htm Please feel free to give me call to talk about it. 889-5806 andrea
Keith Rose commented on Andrea Dean's blog post 'Can you help me come up with a catchy name for my new Green Biz Class Series?'June 30
I'd like info on your class. Meanwhile I'll think of names.

Blog Posts

Brent Norris

All about Green Collar Tech

What is Green Collar Technologies you ask? It's pretty much an organization that promotes education, jobs, events, and organized resources for a greener economy on the Big Island of Hawaii. We want to become a worldwide model for sustainability, but to do so we need your help! Our organization will offer you online/offline sustainability training so you may experience a more environmentally friendly lifestyle.

The two different types of sustainability are online (referring to sustainable work t… Continue

Posted by Brent Norris on July 6, 2009 at 2:00pm

Brent Norris

Green Collar Technology Work Group Progress (7/1/09)

Two days ago the labor group drove to the Pacific Aquaculture & Coastal Resources Center to plant some taro. Now, they're returned and it's time for the big harvest. With the help of Joe once again, the team was able to emphasize their taro knowledge with some cutting, sorting, and replanting lessons. The whole process of preparing the taro there pretty much involves cutting off the roots and using the stem for re-growth. But by now, the group has gotten the hang of it since this is their th… Continue

Posted by Brent Norris on July 2, 2009 at 12:25pm

EcoTipping Points Project

Re-Use Hawaii

I happened to see a Re-Use Hawaii truck today. It had their website painted on it, so I decided to check it out. They re-use building materials to keep them out of the landfill.
Check it out
Regina Gregory
EcoTipping Points Project

Posted by EcoTipping Points Project on July 1, 2009 at 9:58pm

Oahu Early Detection

Steps to plant ID...

From an unpublished document by George Staples, 2006....

Plant identification process (use this with the Plant ID resources):

1. Sight recognition
a. Either you or a colleague knows the species on sight.
b. The species resembles something you know, allowing an educated guess as to a genus of family.
c. If you don’t recognize the family, try online interactive keys. Many dichotomous family keys are cumbersome.
2. Check your educated guess:
a. Family level- make sure specimen matches a descripti… Continue

Posted by Oahu Early Detection on July 1, 2009 at 3:15pm

Oahu Early Detection

OED publications...

Check out some of the naturalizing plant records from OED:

http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/pdf/op96.pdf

http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/pdf/op100.pdf

Posted by Oahu Early Detection on July 1, 2009 at 3:01pm

Oahu Early Detection

Resources for Plant ID

In a typical workday, Alex and I end up doing quite a bit of plant identification. For this, we often turn to the plant specimens available at the Bishop Museum's Herbarium Pacificum. In addition to the herbarium, however, there are a number of online resources available that can often get you to where you need to be with a plant ID. Here are some of the resources we use:

• Family identification:
o Online interactive keys:
http://www.kew.org/herbarium/keys/fm/key.html
http://www.colby.edu/info.… Continue

Posted by Oahu Early Detection on July 1, 2009 at 2:15pm

Brent Norris

Green Collar Technology Work Group Progress (6/30/09)

It's finally our third week into the program and we're already accomplished quite alot. Yesterday the offline group drove down to Mark's place again to work on the Earthship. We hope to get a lot of foundation done before the end of our last three weeks together. Since everyone will be returning to school by the start of August.

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Posted by Brent Norris on July 1, 2009 at 1:30pm

Brent Norris

Green Collar Technology Work Group Progress (6/29/09)

Monday started off a little bit differently from what we expected. Tracy from the Workforce Development division came to the Innovation Center to visit us and evaluate our progress. We explained to her what our efforts up until now have been like and our accomplishments. Once she left, the offline team drove back down to the Pacific Aquaculture & Coastal Resource Center to plant taro again with Joe. They had to prep the soil with 103010 fertilizer and chicken manure to promote the crop growt… Continue

Posted by Brent Norris on July 1, 2009 at 9:00am

Brent Norris

Green Collar Technology Work Group Progress (6/26/09)

On Friday, the offline team drove down to Pahala to pick up aluminum roofing at Matty's house (he's our other supervisor). The drive took about a few hours from start to finish and back again. They then arrived at the Atlus Recycling center to drop off the aluminum roofing. Everyone did great job that day with the help of one of our online members taking pictures of their activities.

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Posted by Brent Norris on June 29, 2009 at 2:30pm

Brent Norris

Green Collar Technology Work Group Progress (6/25/09)

Heading to Moku's Farm was the labor group's task on Thurday. It was another taro and basil harvesting job for them. After that they all drove to Brent's house. For the rest of the day everyone had to pot taro before returning to the Innovation Center.



They seem to be working h… Continue

Posted by Brent Norris on June 28, 2009 at 8:00pm

 
 

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