{"id":43718,"date":"2016-03-11T13:43:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T23:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=43718"},"modified":"2021-04-08T18:35:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T04:35:54","slug":"first-uh-presidents-green-initiative-awards-winners-recognized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/03\/11\/first-uh-presidents-green-initiative-awards-winners-recognized\/","title":{"rendered":"First <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> President\u2019s Green Initiative Awards winners recognized"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VhQZVYWGZKI?rel=0&#038;showinfo=0\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The first winners of the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> President&#8217;s Green Initiative Awards were honored in a ceremony on Friday, March 11 at the East-West Center as part of the fourth <a href=\"http:\/\/web.hawaii.edu\/sustainabilitysummit\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Sustainability in Higher Education Summit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The top awards, presented by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiianelectric.com\/\">Hawaiian Electric Companies<\/a> with support from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnsoncontrols.com\/\">Johnson Controls<\/a>, recognize student initiative, innovation, creativity and civic engagement in campus and community sustainability with cash prizes totaling $30,000.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> President <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.edu\/offices\/op\/\"><strong>David Lassner<\/strong><\/a> said, &ldquo;It is a great honor to celebrate the amazing work of our students, faculty and staff who are advancing sustainability across the <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> system. We are very grateful to the Hawaiian Electric Companies and Johnson Controls for helping us recognize this outstanding work, which is building a better future for the university and <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> through sustainable innovations and practices.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<h2>Winners<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Green Project Implementation Awards&#8212;student-led sustainability projects with measurable outcomes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>E <span aria-label=\"Hoopaiapuni\">Ho&#699;opa&#699;iapuni<\/span> K&#257;kou: An Integrated Approach to Resource Recovery, Leeward Community College <br \/>\n$10,000 from the Hawaiian Electric Companies <br \/>\nIn support of student efforts to at Leeward Community College to develop a process to collect food waste on campus and turn it into high-quality organic fertilizer and compost for the campus farm.<\/li>\n<li>Rescaling Urbanism, University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa <br \/>\n$10,000 from Johnson Controls <br \/>\nIn support of applied research and design to develop an alternative framework of building, utilizing wood from the invasive albizia tree, for the sustainability of our island and our planet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43775\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43775\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/system-seu-kaleiwahea-lassner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"385\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/system-seu-kaleiwahea-lassner.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/system-seu-kaleiwahea-lassner-260x161.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hawaiian Electric Companies vice president Scott Seu, left, and <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> President David Lassner, right, present Christina Kaleiwahea with a Green Student Leader Award.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Green Student Leader Awards&#8212;students who take on leadership roles in sustainability related activities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Christina Kaleiwahea<\/strong>, Leeward Community College<br \/>\n$5,000 from the Hawaiian Electric Companies <br \/>\nIn recognition of outstanding leadership in sustainability on campus through her roles as Leeward <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> sustainability committee member, <abbr title=\"science, technology, engineering, and mathematics\">STEM<\/abbr> club president, student government member and dedicated community volunteer.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jeff Kim<\/strong>, University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa <br \/>\n$5,000 from Johnson Controls<br \/>\nIn recognition of outstanding leadership in sustainability on campus through his role as Honolulu Chapter Leader of Citizens&#8217; Climate Lobby and his tireless advocacy and work in the community for divestment from fossil fuels. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;Sustainability is about unleashing our creative innovation to solve the problems created by a rapidly changing world for our communities,&rdquo; <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Sustainability Director <strong>Matthew K. Lynch<\/strong> said. &ldquo;The President&#8217;s Green Initiative Awards were created as a tool to help unleash the creativity that our students have and create pathways for great ideas to emerge.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Staff and faculty awards for outstanding teaching in sustainability, excellence in sustainable facilities management and collaboration for sustainability were also presented. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Outstanding Teaching in Sustainability <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Aaron Hanai<\/strong>, instructor, <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College<br \/>\nIn recognition of commitment to develop and teach transformative sustainability curriculum in STEM at <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College.  <\/li>\n<li><strong>Aya Kimura<\/strong>, associate professor, University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa<br \/>\nIn recognition of commitment to develop and teach transformative sustainability curriculum in women&#8217;s studies at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> M&#257;noa.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Excellence in Sustainable Facilities Management<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Kevin Hand<\/strong>, <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo electrician<br \/>\nIn recognition of exemplary performance to improve energy-efficiency and reduce energy consumption at <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Outstanding Collaboration for Sustainability<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>David Strauch<\/strong>, <strong>Richard Criley<\/strong> and <strong>Roxanne Adams<\/strong> <br \/>\nIn recognition of outstanding collaboration by students, faculty and staff towards the internationally recognized accreditation of the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa campus as an arboretum.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was also announced that <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M&#257;noa student <strong>McKenna Lewis<\/strong> had been selected as the recipient of the 2015&#8211;16 Alaska Airlines Environmental Endowed Scholarship for $1,600. <\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> President&#8217;s Green Initiative Awards issued a call for nominations in November 2015 and the program was open to University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> students from across all 10 campuses.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first winners of the <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> President&#8217;s Green Initiative Awards were honored as part of the fourth <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Sustainability in Higher Education Summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[735,598,63,65,1480,1466,1314,1468,911,698,660,73,71,14,9,947,56],"class_list":["post-43718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-video","tag-campus-recognition","tag-faculty-recognition","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-manoa-academic-innovation-engaged-learning","tag-manoa-enhancing-student-success","tag-manoa-sustainability","tag-manoa-sustainable-and-resilient-campus-environment","tag-program-recognition","tag-staff-recognition","tag-student-recognition","tag-sustainability","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uh-system","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43718"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87013,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43718\/revisions\/87013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}