UH Sustainability Summit

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Providing platforms for leaders in sustainability across Hawaii and abroad.Sharing best practices, networking, and engaging with universities, other institutions and groups. These insightful presentation videos are from the Sustainability in Higher Education SummitUniversity of Hawai’i – East West Center Honolulu, Hawaii, March 10-12, 2016

Speakers and Guests bios

Video presentations by the Hawaii-based multi-media group
Planetviews International

Learning from Hawaii’s rich foundation of indigenous ancestral wisdom
Sharing best practices & lessons learned from the field
Peer networking & learning
Celebrating our successes by acknowledging leadership in sustainability
Learning from national & international perspectives and experiences

Day 1, Show 1

00:10 Pu, Kukahili
04:30 Opening Blessing Loko’olu
05:00 E Ho Mai – Prayer
06:23 Michael Bruno
Vice Chancellor Research UH-Manoa
09:50 Matthew Lynch
Office of Sustainability University of Hawaii (UH) Manoa, Introductions and Purposes
34:10 Kamuela Enos
MA’O Farm, Oahu MA’O
Perpetuation of Wellbeing Farming, food, family and community

Day 1, Show 2

Ancestral Knowledge, Contemporary Practice

00:20 Kamuela Enos
MA’O Farm Organic and sustainable food security
01:00 Albie Miles
UH West Oahu Western Science and Indigenous Wisdom Farmers, Consumers & Sustainable Economy Growing a better future
25:55 Kevin Chang
Kua’Aina Ulu Auamo – KUA Hawaiian roots, Culture and Our Children
37:53 Kamuela Enos
MA’O Farm, Oahu MA’O

Day 1, Show 3

00:20 Matthew Lynch
Office of Sustainability UH Hawaii- Manoa
Creating sustainable systems in higher education,
Networking, Information Sharing, Strategic
Planning.

8:40 Arnim Wiek
Arizona State University- His
research group develops, tests, and evaluates
transformational solutions to sustainability
challenges.

Day 1, Show 4

01:00 Patrick Thibaudeau
HGA Architects Sustainable design practice . Inventive, forwarding thinking ideas that shape the future.

23:10 Matthew Lynch
UH Hawaii- Manoa

23:30 Jessica Worchel
Peace Child International World Youth Congress 2017- Honolulu
Education transformation and youth leadership to ensure healthy, thriving, and sustainable communities, locally and globally.

Day 1, Show 5

00:20 Matthew Lynch
UH Manoa

01:52 Victoria Keener, Ph.D.
East West Center
Climate Science and Hawaii
Climate Change in the Pacific Islands Region
Changes in global climate science

Day 2, Video Presentation

Nainoa Thompson, Polynesian Voyaging Society, speaks at Kapiolani Community College- KCC

The Purpose of Education

Voyage of ReDiscovery , Consequences of
Sustainable and Environmental matters

Presented at the Sustainability in Higher
Education Summit

Day 2, Show 1

00:30 Kristen Jamieson
Student Sustainability Coordinator, University of Hawaii Manoa

10:00 Matthew Lynch
System Sustainability Coordinator University of Hawaii – Manoa

10:45 Celeste Connors Hawaii Green Growth Aloha + Challenge

Day 2, Show 2

00:20 Matthew Lynch
University of Hawaii – Manoa

01:00 Amy Shachter
SENCER,
Santa Clara University, Senior Provost

25:00 Tim Botkin
Maui College Sustainable Science

“We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.”
~Stephen Jay Gould, The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. ”
~Franklin D. Roosevelt

“For every additional year of primary schooling, a child's future productivity grows 10 to 30 percent.”
~George Psacharopoulos.

“In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops. ”
~Paul Brooks, The Pursuit of Wilderness, 1971

“If the world's dwindling forests and coral reefs were compared to museums and universities, "then their destruction would be regarded as massive vandalism .”
~Klaus Toepfer, director of the U.N. Environment Program.

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
~Jimi Hendrix

“Through his dignity, grace and the quality of his forgiveness, Nelson Mandela made racism everywhere not just immoral, but stupid.”
~Tony Blair, British Prime Minister

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace”
~John Lennon

"“In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.” (1987)
~Carl Sagan"