How Does Planning Compare in the US and Canada. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Ken Rogers. Dr. Ken Rogers, formerly a city planner in Calgary, Alberta, helps us understand City planning and re/development for the city of the future. Cities have changed because of remote work, downtowns have changed. […]
Beating the Heat with Cool Walls (Code Green)
Cool Walls Cool Homes at Very Little Cost. The host for this show is Howard Wiig. The guests are Audrey McGarrell and Stacey Weister. We discuss the urban heat island effect and the dangers of extreme heat. Cool exterior walls are one tool to help mitigate urban heat and save energy. Our guests also describe […]
‘C’ Invention 2: Cement and Concrete (Inventing our Future)
Clean Concretes and Cements. The hosts for this show are Brittany Zimmerman and Richard Ha. The guest is Kevin MacDonald. Brittany Zimmerman and Richard Ha host Dr. Kevin MacDonald and together discuss Clean Cements and Concretes. How can clean cement and concred play a role in the a sustainable future for Hawai’i? The ThinkTech YouTube […]
THRIVE Hawaii Agrifood Summit (Research In Manoa)
Developing Agricultural Tech in Asia Pacific. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Jim Wyban. HIplan, organizers of the Tropical AgTech Conference, has announced an agreement with THRIVE, an international venture and innovation company in Silicon Valley, THRIVE works to solve the biggest challenges facing the food and agriculture industries. ‘Our […]
Shark Tank Sustainable (Code Green)
Selling Green Greens the Planet and Wallet. The host for this show is Howard Wiig. The guests are Gail Grabowsky and Hina Ioane. Our student guests strongly recommended that people switch to the sole production and use of sustainable, eco-friendly products. They have taken up the responsibility of championing actions that would facilitate very reduced […]
Better Tomorrow Means Scaling up in Agriculture (Community Matters)
A New Documentary by Filmmaker Kim Bassford. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Robert Perkinson. Robert Perkinson, an American Studies Professor at UH Manoa, helps us understand the Better Tomorrow series, which includes an event about Kim Bassford’s documentary on agriculture in Hawaii entitled Scaling Up: Hawaii’s Food Future. The […]
This is Spaceship Earth – we Have a Problem Part II (Hawaii: State Of Clean Energy)
We Have Solutions. The host for this show is Mitch Ewan. The guests are Peter Sternlicht and Noel Morin. This is the 2nd episode in a series of discussions about the “Perfect Storm” of a) climate change, b) over-reach caused by population and consumption rate of growth, and c) resource depletion at a time when […]
This is Spaceship Earth – we Have a Problem (Hawaii: State Of Clean Energy)
We Need a Plan. The host for this show is Mitch Ewan. The guest is Peter Sternlicht. This is the first in a series of discussions about the “Perfect Storm” of climate change, over-reach caused by population and consumption rate of growth and resource depletion at a time when we need more “STUFF” than ever. […]
Make Energy, Not War (Stan The Energy Man)
Why Can’t we Solve Problems? Quit Fighting! The host for this episode is Stan Osserman. There is no “Silver Bullet” solution to meeting clean energy goals. We need to be focused on solutions, not fighting over different techniques and technologies. Stan talks solutions!!! ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet from 10:00 am to 5:00 […]
The Magic of Microgrids (Stan The Energy Man)
Not Magic, Good Planning. The host for this episode is Stan Osserman. The guest for this episode is Paul Ponthieux. Paul and Stan talk about proper design of large and small microgrids. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm Hawaii time most weekdays, then we stream our earlier shows […]