Highlights: Advancing a Circular Economy in Hawai`i

Conference Program

Conference Videos

 
Opening Keynote: Overview of the Ancestral Circular Economy

• Kamanamaikalani Beamer, Director, Kamakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, Professor & Dana Naone Hall Endowed Chair, Hawaiian Studies, Literature and the Environment, UH Mānoa

Plenary Panel 1: Ancestral Circular Economy in Action

• Natalie Kurashima, Integrated Resources Manager, Kamehameha Schools
• Keliʻi Kotubetey, Founder/Assistant Executive Director, Paepae o Heʻeia
• Brandon Ledward, Principle Strategist, Kamehameha Schools
• Moderator: Kamanamaikalani Beamer, UH Mānoa

Plenary Panel 2: Contemporary Restoration of Ahupuaʻa

• Neil Hannahs, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Hookele Strategies LLC
• Noa Lincoln, Assistant Professor, Indigenous Crops and Cropping Systems, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, UH Mānoa
• Puaʻala Pascua, Coordinator, Ahupuaʻa Accelerator Initiative, Hawaiʻi Conservation Alliance (via Zoom)
• Kapuaʻala Sproat, Professor/Director, Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law, William S. Richardson School of Law, UH Mānoa
• Moderator: Kamuela Enos, Director, Office of Indigenous Knowledge and Innovation, UH System

Featured Keynote (via Zoom): Doughnut Economics

• Kate Raworth, Senior Associate, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University

Afternoon Keynote: From theory to practice: catalyzing a circular economy in Heʻeia (Koʻolaupoko, Oʻahu)

• Kāwika Winter, Director, He’eia National Estuarine Research Reserve; Biocultural Ecologist, Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology, UH Mānoa

Plenary Panel 3: Experiences, Challenges and Best Practices of Circular Economy Interventions

• Sandra Köhler, Research Associate/Chair, Production & Supply Chain Management, University of Augsburg
• Simron Singh, Professor & University Research Chair, School of Environment, Enterprise and Development, University of Waterloo
• Hiroki Tanikawa, Professor & Associate Dean, Environmental Studies, Nagoya University
• Moderator: Kamanamaikalani Beamer, UH Mānoa

Plenary Panel 4: UH’s Role in Creating Opportunities for the Future

• Kawena Elkington, Graduate Research Assistant, Pōʻai Ke Aloha ʻĀina Lab, UH Mānoa
• Kekai Lee, Lecturer, Hawaiian Studies, Leeward Community College; Navigator, Polynesian Voyaging Society
• Kaui Sana, Farm Manager, MA’O Organic Farms
• Alec Wagner, Master’s Candidate, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
• Moderator: Kamuela Enos, UH System