wisdom + technology = sustainability: on blue planet summit
Gotta another excuse to spew carbon to attend the Blue Planet Summit (BPS) next week on Oahu.
That’s if I can get invited (no word yet) to this gathering of 80-plus “luminaries who will share lessons learned and find new actionable ideas to create energy that is clean, inexpensive, efficient, and abundant.”
Founder Henk Rogers announced BPS in early February, calling for a “global dialogue on clean energy with all of us working in partnership.†Yeah!
So far, local ‘luminaries’ like Jeff Mikulina, Kelly King, Mawae Morton, Ramsay Taum, Maurice Kaya, Mina Morita, and Kanu‘s Andrew Aoki are on the list,.
The invitation-only participants list seems to include roughly half residents, plus reps from green energy groups and businesses and assorted public officials.
Oh, and, the summit format is unusual…more like a brainstorming sessions than a series of presentations. So far so good.
Rogers, a video game mogul who recently moved to Hawaii, announced BPS in early February (around the time of the Bushies “Clean Energy” initiative with Hawaii), and quickly got support from Senator Inouye, hired a PR firm, and recruited a project team with strong media and tech ties.
Rogers hopes that “the Hawaiian tradition of living in harmony with nature will be a model of inspiration, and the thematic template for the ecological balance Blue Planet Foundation is promoting worldwide.”
I especially like the ‘inexpensive’ bit.
According to the BPS trailer, “merging the legacy of indigenous wisdom with the astonishing technological advances of our times is the path to an abundant and sustainable future, and the way for us to fulfill our responsibility to care for the blue planet we share.”
Henry Curtis wonders about Blue Planet’s initial list of 20 or so “green energy” projects. Is this a work in progress or a clue to some sort of bias, wonders Curtis (via email)?
Oh, and, I missed Gabrielle Welford inquiring about the BPS folks back in mid-Feb. “Why are none of our activists on the list of invitees?”, Welford wondered then.
OK, so some folks are suspicious of “entrepreneurial big bucks by someone not from hawai’i”, as Welford put it.
Still, BPS is rallying a great gaggle of talent, and we certainly hope that some sort of energy template emerges from this innovative gathering.
BPS is right about this: nothing is more important than switching away from fossil fuels in these islands.
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