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Thoughts
From a co-authored paper on wildfires to a reforestation and culture-focused TEDx Talk to a selection of LinkedIn posts, the below samples provide you with a grounded understanding of my approach and perspective on critical issues.
Megafire Resilience:
Bridging Forests, Water, and Utilities
Co-authored with former Blue Forest colleagues, The Water Report paper examines how innovative financing tools, such as Forest Resilience Bonds, when paired with cross-agency collaboration, can accelerate landscape-scale wildfire resilience and help utilities and land managers address growing climate risks.
PC: County of Hawaiʻi
PC: County of Hawaiʻi
Drawing on personal heritage, climate data, Indigenous values, and stories, my TEDx Talk illustrates how reforesting our planet is both a climate solution and a cultural imperative.
It’s a call to embrace one's kuleana (Hawaiian: our shared responsibility) to become better ancestors, and to find the kintsugi (Japanese: tested approach to repairing broken things) through actions rooted in place, and with hope.
PC: Blue Forest
PC: Blue Forest
Wildfire
"Wildfires and heat have been on my mind quite a bit of late. Both locally and globally..."
"A tale of natural, engineered, and ancestral infrastructure. Or put another way: wildfires..."
"Tomorrow is the one year anniversary of the Maui Wildfires – the third largest loss of life..."
Watersheds
"The sheer scale and complexity of the challenges from the climate crisis and biodiversity loss can..."
"Three places we should all know more about: Hāʻena, Kauaʻi; Heʻeia, Oʻahu; and..."
"…I urge people to just make the connection that every time you turn the tap on, that’s a direct..."
Knowledge
"If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many words are a map worth? Since I was a child..."
"Indigenous Knowledge can be a transformative force in addressing environmental crises..."
"Islands that 'rise' to the circumstances, coral bonds, and addressing the fallacy of aqua..."
Collaboration
"When you think about The Nature Conservancy, the first thing that probably comes to mind is..."
"The connections between our wastewater, freshwater, coral reefs, and ocean..."
"How are cherry blossoms, hot springs, and ancient pilgrimages related to climate?..."