TEDxMaui - Byron Washom - Beyond the Reef
About the Speaker:Byron Washom is a "solar soothsayer." So says Fast Company Magazine, which named him one of the "100 Most Creative Persons in Business." An alternative-energy pioneer, Washom is partnering with UH--Maui College to bring electric vehicles to Hawai'i. As UC--San Diego's director of Strategic Energy Initiatives, Washom is responsible for policy to achieve the campus's goals for quantum improvements in energy management and greenhouse-gas reductions. He is a four-time Rockefeller Foundation grantee and a former Heinz Endowment grantee for early adoption of renewable energy into developing countries.Recorded at TEDxMaui 2012, held on January 22, 2012 at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center.
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18:39