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BE 191 Introduction to Applications in Biological Engineering
Prerequisites: (none)
Course Days and Times: Tuesday, 3 - 5 PM
Instructor Name: Daniel M. Jenkins
Instructor Phone: (808) 956-6069
Instructor Email: danielje@hawaii.edu
Instructor Office: Agr. Sci. 415L
Instructor Office Hours: Thursday 4 - 5 PM
Course website: https://laulima.hawaii.edu/portal/site/MAN.78857.201010
Discussion and investigation of special topics, problems, and applications of biological engineering.
Full Course Description: Introduction to basic principles of math and science and their applications to biological engineering, as well as social and ethical ramifications of various biologically engineered systems. Topics include biomechanics, waste treatment and bioremediation, thermodynamics, biosensors, bioconversion for fuel, energy, and value-added products.
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Econ 350 Sustainable Development
Prerequisites: 120 or 130 or 131
Course Days and Times: TR, 1030-1145
Instructor Name: James Roumasset
Instructor Phone: 956 7496
Instructor Email: jimr@hawaii.edu
Instructor Office: Saunders 514
Instructor Office Hours: W 1:30 – 3pm
Instructor Web Link : http://www2.hawaii.edu/~jimr/index.htm
Course website: https://laulima.hawaii.edu/portal
This course provides an overview of the economics of sustainable development by reviewing the interactions between the environment, the economy, human resources, and public policy.
Course Description:
This course provides an overview of the economics of sustainable development. We review the interactions between the environment, the economy, human resources, and public policy. Ecological constraints (climate, disease ecology, physical resources) significantly shape the economic development, wealth and poverty and anthropogenic activities (farming, resource depletion, demographic stresses, and energy use) change the physical environment. We compare and contrast sustainability science and the public economics of sustainable development with other representations of sustainability including the 3R’s, Natural Capitalism, self-sufficiency and moral imperatives. We consider why Hawaii is widely regarded as an ecological basket case and what solutions are suggested by environmental economics. Topics include the economic, environmental, and cultural dimensions of sustainability; global warming and energy use: water resources and watersheds; traffic congestion and other environmental problems in Hawaii; biodiversity and endangered species; pollution solutions; unsustainable recycling; and “smart,” “greedy,” and “win-win” growth.
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ECON 638 Environmental Resource Economics
TR 1:30-2:45 Instructor: J Roumasset (3) Principles of policy design and evaluation for environmental resources management, forestry and watershed conservation, and sustainable economic development. Pre: 604 or 606; or consent.
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ENG 100A (01): Composition I/Honors
(MWF 10:30-11:20) Instructor: Frank Stewart Phone: 956-3059 E-mail instructor: fstewart@hawaii.edu Visit Course Website: http://www.english.hawaii.edu/courses/fall09/100f09.html During this course, you'll be writing all the time, including about seven essays, each based on readings that I’ll give you or are in the book I’ve ordered. The essays will often concern issues of the environment, sustainability/dynamic change, human nature, and our responsibilities to one another in a global community. However, you will have the freedom to pursue aspects of these topics in ways that interest you the most. Course goals are to give you the ability to 1) generate and present ideas precisely and effectively, 2) develop a central idea in a piece of writing and support it logically and clearly, 3) produce effective sentences and paragraphs that support a central idea, 4) present good questions provoked by an essay’s ideas and facts, 5) revise and proofread so that your sentences and grammar are technically correct, and, not least, 6) understand an essay's relationship to audience and how that relationship may influence style, diction, level of formality, and other aspects of the writing. Your last assignment will be an extended, unified research project.
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ENG 100 (10) Composition I
TR 10:30-11:45 Instructor: Jim Caron Composition taught with a sustainability theme.
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ENG 100/101 (30) Composition I
TR 7:30- 8:20 Instructor: Richard Nettell Phone: 956-3036 E-mail instructor: nettell@hawaii.edu Visit Course Website: http://www.english.hawaii.edu/courses/fall09/100f09.html This course aims to have students produce university-level writing and will involve discussion of notions such as style, register, fluency, and appropriacy, as well as consideration of the role and significance of Standard English, particularly within the context of the university. There will also be a substantial review of grammar. Core course elements are: an engaged reception of selected works of fiction, non-fiction, and film; an awareness of the varieties of English, their uses and significance; an ability to produce writing appropriate to a particular context and readership; a discussion of, and practice in, Standard English for Academic Purposes. The class will emphasize analytic and argumentative writing, but elements of creative and personal writing will also be encouraged. There will be several required conferences, and students will receive extensive instructor and peer feedback on as much of their writing as possible. The final research paper (on sustainability) will be presented orally (using PowerPoint).
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ENG 100 (24): Composition I
(MWF 1:30 – 2:20) Instructor: Jim Henry_ Phone: 956-3074 E-mail instructor: jmhenry@hawaii.edu Visit Course Website: http://www.english.hawaii.edu/henry/100/2009/description.html This section of Composition I will focus on sustainability as part of an ACE cluster of courses that includes Ethnobotany and Hawaiian Studies. Our beginning writing activities will include a focus on where we are coming from, geographically and genealogically, so that we can get to know each other and establish relationships. From that point we will move to other course actitivies: watching films such as Manufactured Landscapes and Noho Hewa, and writing summaries and analyses; workshops at Hamilton Library to learn techniques for effective, valuable, responsible information retrieval on the Internet; a collaborative web site presenting research on sustainability; a number of outings in Honolulu such as the Water Works, the Tour de Trash, and K_ka‘_‘_ Heiau. In the final weeks of the course, you will study possible careers that would enable you to make use of a sustainability-focused undergraduate experience at UH M_noa and you will compose a futuristic nonfiction creative writing depiction of your work as a sustainably-focused "knowledge worker."
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ENG 100 (19): Composition I
(MWF 11:30-12:20) Instructor: Phillip Drake Phone: 956-7619 E-mail instructor: pdrake@hawaii.edu Visit Course Website: http://www.english.hawaii.edu/courses/fall09/100f09.html This course is designed to help attune students to writing processes, to develop strategies for more successful writing inside and outside the university, and to engage with issues of sustainability. Major coursework will include three writing projects, each corresponding a unit in the course, several shorter essays, weekly postings, and a short presentation. Our focus on sustainability is intended to be a conceptual point of departure that will lead us through a variety of topics and discourses, including but not limited to discussions of health, agriculture, environmentalism, animal rights, poverty, disasters, gender, space, place, economics, the sciences, modernity, postmodernism, utopias, tourism, technology, and futurity. Through our course readings and discussions, we will think and write about the implications of sustainability on ourselves, on environments (particularly those we encounter on these islands), and the ways conceptions of nature develop over time.
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English 100 - Composition I
Instructor: Prof. Richard Westbury Nettell
Instructor Email: nettell@hawaii.edu
Location: Kuykendall 321
Instructor's Phone: 956-3036
Office hours: T/Th 7:00-7:30, 10:15-10:45 (or by appointment)
Course Description:
At the completion of this course, students will have demonstrated the ability to produce university-level writing, in various forms, as responses to a wide variety of texts. In addition, this section of ENG 100 will include discussion of notions such as style, register, fluency, and appropriacy, as well as consideration of the role and significance of Standard English, particularly within the context of the university. There will also be a substantial review of core grammar and structure. Overall, the class will emphasize analytic and argumentative writing, but creative and personal writing will also be encouraged. There will be several required conferences, and students will receive extensive instructor and peer feedback on as much as their writing as possible.
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GEOG 101 (1) The Natural Environment
TR 9:00-10:15 Instructor: S Jorgensen (3) Survey of man’s natural environment; distribution and interrelationships of climates, vegetation, soils, landforms. DP
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GEOG 101 (2) The Natural Environment
TR 3:00-4:15 Instructor: D Beilman (3) Survey of man’s natural environment; distribution and interrelationships of climates, vegetation, soils, landforms. DP
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GEOG 326 Environment, Resources and Society
TR 1:30-2:45 Instructor: K Suryanata (3) Human interaction with the environment. Changes in concept of conservation. Ecological, philosophical, and political aspects of present environmental dilemmas. Problems in Hawai‘i, U.S., and developing world. DS
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GEOG 401 Climate Change
TR 12:00-1:15 Instructor: C Mandryk (3) Approaches to the study of past and future climate change. Pre: 101 or 300 or 401 or 402 or 405 or MET 101 or MET 200 or MET 302 or MET 303 or MET 310, or consent. DP
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Interdisciplinary Studies 489 - Environmental Practicum
Prerequisites: Environmental Studies major or consent
Course Days and Times: Weds 1:30-4pm
Instructor Name: John Cusick, Ph.D.
Instructor Phone: (808) 956-7362
Instructor Email: jcusick@hawaii.edu
Instructor Office: Krauss Annex 19
Instructor Office Hours: TWTH
Instructor Web Link: http://www.hawaii.edu/envctr/
Senior capstone internship program
Course Description:
Students undertake an individually designed research project as part of an environmentally focused internship with a government agency or organization.
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IS 489 Environmental Practicum
W 1:30-4:00 Instructor: John Cusick. Field experience in study and abatement of environmental problems under faculty direction. Project proposal, narrative activity log, and documentary report are required. Pre: upper division standing, courses in appropriate discipline, and consent.
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NREM 220 Agricultural and Resource Economics
TR 9:00-10:15 Instructor: Linda Cox. The purpose of this course is to assist you in establishing an organized thinking pattern that will enable rational consideration of current and future issues relating to the tradeoffs between food production and alternative uses of natural resource endowments. Pre: none. Taught every fall. A-F only. DS
Environmental quality and resource scarcity will continue to be critical issues for decades to come. Many of the resource policy issues of concern in Hawaii originate from the increasing demand for water and land for urban and recreational uses. Traditional land and water resources in Hawaii and throughout the rest of the world have been primarily inputs for food production. The increased demand for urban and recreational uses is often in direct conflict with the traditional demand for food production uses. As these conflicts intensify and become “front page” policy issues for public decision-makers, framework for rational choice is needed.
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NREM 302 Natural Resources and Environmental Policy
MW 3:30-4:45 Instructor C Ferguson Introduction to American government policy in natural resources and environmental protection at federal, Hawaii state and county levels. Policy principles, legal structure, governmental agencies, major statutes and programs, analytical techniques, program assessments. A-F only. Pre: 210 and either 220 or ECON 120 or ECON 130; or consent. DS,ETH,WI
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NREM 420 Community and Natural Resource Management
TR 10:30-11:45 Instructor: Linda Cox. This course is designed to help students develop skills and obtain knowledge related to the human dimensions of natural resource management in order to become more sustainable. Issues related to working with and within groups and communities to address natural resource management concerns will be specifically addressed. The course will cover theory, tools and examples of working with individuals and communities in both the extension/development context. The course will explore theoretical and practical aspects of various concepts including: extension/development theory, the structure and attributes of groups and communities, working with individuals and groups, participation, and the role of the “outsider” in natural resources management planning and practice. Pre: six credits of social science, or consent. Fall only. DS
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PEPS/NREM 210 Environmental Resources: Issues and Options
TR 10:30-11:45 Instructors: Carl Evensen (NREM), Brent Sipes and Janice Uchida (Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences). Analysis of our environment with emphasis on understanding relationships and interactions of physical, biological, technological, and political components using scientific methods of inquiry. Food supply and safety, water quality, pollution control, biodiversity, environmental policy. Writing Intensive and qualifies as a Biological Science Diversification Requirement. Pre: none. Open to nonmajors.
Covers how ecosystems are constructed, interdependence of living things, global resources, human population growth, impacts of agriculture to provide food, high energy needs of our society and ways energy is produced, pollution from food, fiber and energy production, and global effects. A theme that runs throughout the course is the need for sustainability, that we provide for the present without taking the resources from the future. We also encourage students to think independently and be responsible
citizens. The course was created for freshman and sophomores but it is quickly filled with seniors and juniors.
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PLAN 625 Environmental Planning: Climate Change, Energy, and Food Security in the Asia/Pacific Region
Prerequisites: None
Course Days and Times: Thursdays 6-8:45
Instructor Name: Makena Coffman
Instructor Phone: 6-2890
Instructor Email: makena.coffman@hawaii.edu
Instructor Office: Saunders 107D
Instructor Office Hours: Thursdays 4-6pm or by appointment
This course offers an opportunity to collaborate with students throughout the Asia/Pacific Region to explore topics of global climate change, energy, and food security.
Course Description:
The international community is facing rising oil prices, a global food crisis and unprecedented climate changes. The implications for the Asia Pacific region are immense and daunting. This region is home to 65% of the world’s population and has two of the largest oceans on Earth. As major climate disasters impact across the region, it is apparent that environmental issues, such as global warming, know no national border.
This course is part of the Asia-Pacific Initiative, which coordinates through video-conference with universities throughout the Asia-Pacific region including Keio University, United Nations University, Asia Institute of Technology, National University of Samoa, and University of the Ryukyus. This course will explore the issue of environmental sustainability from a holistic perspective using Climate Change as a cross-cutting theme. Lectures are designed to provide a background in climate science, climate mitigation strategies and policy, environmental effects of climate change and policy solutions including land-use planning, coastal zone management, sustainable energy, forest management and food security. .
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PLAN 632 Planning in Hawaii and Pacific Islands
Prerequisites: graduate standing & consent of instructor
Course Days and Times: Thrusdays 9:00-11:45am
Instructor Name: Luciano Minerbi
Instructor Phone: 956-6869
Instructor Email: luciano@hawaii.edu
Instructor Office: Saunders Hall 107H
Instructor Office Hours: by appointment
Instructor Web Link http://www.durp.hawaii.edu
Planning in Hawaii and Pacific Islands
Course Description:
Urban and regional planning in island settings, world-views & cosmologies. Ahupua'a Planning. Governance and indigenous cultures. Compatible, sustainable and affordable development and the new economy. Sovereignty, local autonomy, and customary land rights. Land tenure, land use, and native trusts. Infrastructure, village and town plans. Environmental management in island ecologies. Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia. Land tenure, native land trusts and customary systems are studied with regard to new economy, modern development and change that island nations face:
Part I: The Cultural & Ecological Basis for Planning. Indigenous values, cosmologies and metaphors. Social relations and social organization. Cultural stress and adaptation. Sacred and community places, A system approach to integrate ahupua'a and watershed planning. Subsistence, production intensification and ecology.
Part II: Political and Economic Dimensions of Planning. Decolonization, nation building and sovereignty and implication for planning. Sustainable island development, self-reliance and diversification.
Part III: People Settlements and Lands. Emerging patterns of urbanization and population dynamics in the Pacific Basin. Migration, circulation and displacement. Employment and development. Evolving settlement and village system. Land tenure and indigenous rights.
Part IV: Island Planning. Contemporary subsistence. Agro-forestry and food gardening. Fishponds and aquaculture. The planning system in an island setting. Development impacts, environmental management. Eco-cultural tourism.
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OCN 201 (1) Science of the Sea
MWF 10:30-11:20 Instructor: C Measures (3) Structure, formation, and features of ocean basins; seawater properties and distributions; currents; waves; tides; characteristics of marine organisms; marine ecological principles; man and the sea. Field trip required. DP
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OCN 201 (2) Science of the Sea
MWF 12:30-1:20 Instructor: C Measures (3) Structure, formation, and features of ocean basins; seawater properties and distributions; currents; waves; tides; characteristics of marine organisms; marine ecological principles; man and the sea. Field trip required. DP
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OCN 310/OEST 310 Global Environmental Change
MWF 12:30-1:20 Instructor: E Goetze (3) Global environmental change problems, such as carbon dioxide and the greenhouse effect, acid rain, chlorofluorocarbons and the ozone layer, global deforestation and effect on climate, etc. Pre: one environmentally oriented science course. (Cross-listed as MET 310 and OCN 310) DP
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OCN 435 Climate Change and Urbanization
TR 10:30-11:45 Instructor: B Flament (3) How are cities impacted by, and impacting climate change? How do urbanization, alteration of atmospheric processes, and extreme weather events affect urban systems and populations? These topics will be addressed in this course. Pre: OCN 363 or consent. Fall only.
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PEPS 451 Environmental Law
TR 1:30-2:45 Instructor: B Sipes (3) Policies, regulations, acts, and laws that govern our interaction with the environment are explored. Analysis of the legal system’s impact on the movement of invasive pests, control of agricultural and urban pests, agribusiness and property rights, endangered species protection and private land ownership rights, water resource management, and pollution effects.
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PHIL 438/WS 438 Gender and Environmental Philosophy
W 3:30-6:00 Instructor: V Dalmiya (3) Interdisciplinary approach to women’s perspectives and roles on ecological and environmental issues; critical analysis of eco-feminism as a social and political movement; cross-cultural comparison of women’s roles in human ecology. Pre: any course 200 or above in PHIL or WS or any course 200 or above with a DB or DP designation, or consent. (Cross-listed as WS 438) DH
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PHYS 100 Survey of Physics
MWF 1:30-2:20 Instructor Michael Jones. Mechanics, electricity and magnetism, waves, optics, atomic and nuclear physics. Only algebra and geometry used. For non-science majors. DP This course focuses on physics concepts and their connection to society. Among these are energy efficiency, energy sources, climate change, and energy options. So aspects of sustainability are part of the course but not the primary focus. Only algebra and geometry used. For non-science majors. DP
Syllabus will be similar to Spring 2008 which can be found here
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PLAN 622 Environmental Impact Assessment
MW 2:00-4:30 Instructor: B Szuster (3) Theory and practice of environmental impact assessment. Policy and planning frameworks supporting environmental assessment in the U.S. and abroad. Cumulative environmental effects and strategic environmental assessment. Pre: graduate standing. (Cross-listed as GEOG 622) DS
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PLAN 625 Environmental Planning
M 9:00-11:45 Instructor: M Coffman 3) Knowledge and skills needed to prepare environmental plans and impact assessments mandated by national, state and local governments. A-F only. Pre: 620 (or concurrent) or consent.
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POLS 301 Hawai'i Politics - Hawai'i's Future in an Era of Change
TR 12:00-1:15 Instructor: Ira Rohter How Will the Islands Respond to the Three Mega-Challenges of the 21St Century ? Globalization & Over-development, Climate Change, and Peak Oil? Taking Action -- This course will consider major alterations in key institutions and behavior which could promote sustainable solutions that preserve Hawai`i's special biosphere and social identity. And especially, the role that each of us must take in creating new forms of political participation and leadership. Pre: sophomore standing or higher, or consent. DS
For specimen syllabus click here http://www2.hawaii.edu/~irohter/301D-S08.pdf
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OLS 672 Politics of the Future
W 5:30-8:00 Instructor Jim Dator. Introduction to political futures studies; images of future, theories of social change, methods of social forecasting and designing preferred futures. A graduate-level introduction to futures studies with a focus on governance issues. Pre: graduate standing.
For a sample syllabus click here.
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POLS 171 Intro to Political Futures
MW 3:00-4:15 Instructor: J Dator (3) Introduction to political future studies. Using science fact and fiction, shows how past and present images of the future influence people’s actions. DS
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TPSS 220 Organic Crop Production
M 12:30-1:20 and 1:30-4:20 Instructor - Theodore Radovich. This lecture/laboratory is intended to provide a science-based overview of the ecological processes that are relied on in organic agricultural systems. Emphasis will be placed on management strategies for vegetable production. No prerequisites - open enrollment.
Syllabus at:
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Sustainability 101
Info: Oct 2 • Fri • 8:00-11:00am • 1 mtg • UHM Krauss 012 (Yukiyoshi Room) • $50 (General), $40 (Student or Government ) • plus The Honu Guide (optional), available at class for $20
With: Shanah Trevenna
This course is for anyone interested in understanding the concepts of sustainability and how they apply to your workplace, community, and home. Explore the triple bottom line, ecological footprint, zero waste and energy, closed loop cycles and self-sufficiency. Discover how these principles play out in case studies that include examples of recycling, local farming, energy efficiency, renewable energy, water use, and more. Begin looking at how you can apply the concepts of sustainability to challenges in your own work place, including how to engage the community; establish a team; set baseline measures and goals; monitor the triple bottom line; and recognize successes in achieving sustainability goals.
Shanah Trevenna, BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Western Ontario in Canada, graduate student in the University of Hawai‘i Department of Urban and Regional Planning, is the student sustainability coordinator of Sustainable Saunders, an initiative at UH M?noa to evolve Saunders Hall into a model of sustainability for the campus and beyond. She has coordinated many no-to-low cost projects for water, waste, and energy management, adding up to $146,000 in annual savings. Trevenna merges a decade of experience working for corporations such as IBM and Philips with a passion for grassroots community empowerment. She was recently honored with the "Making the Elephants Dance" award by UH President David McClain for finding creative ways for the University to be responsive to the community's needs. She looks forward to being a professor of Sustainability as Hawai‘i becomes a model of sustainability for the world. See http://sustainablesaunders.hawaii.edu for more about the Sustainable Saunders initiative.
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Optimizing Building Assets
Info: Oct 8 • Thu • 8:00-11:00am • 1 mtg • UHM Krauss 012 (Yukiyoshi Room) • $55 (General), $45 (Student or Government), includes ebook
With: George Benda
Building owners and managers are increasingly finding that improving the sustainability of existing building operations brings economic advantage on several levels: reduced operating cost, improved tenant satisfaction, and a potential for improved asset value. Draw on experience gained in over 350 buildings comprising over 100 million square feet in commercial office, retail, industrial, and multi-family residential categories measured against LEED-EB standards to explore ways you can budget for capital improvements and operate sustainable maintenance programs.
George Benda is chairman and CEO of Chelsea Group, Ltd, a leading building science consulting firm founded in 1990. Benda oversees a team of engineers, architects, industrial hygienists, and building scientists in their consulting work. He has worked in advancing environmental sustainability and energy management in buildings, recovery of buildings and campuses from a wide range of disasters, and in delivering building science services that help optimize the physical asset value of client properties. The firm's projects include flood and storm recovery in Hawai‘i and the Gulf States, property condition assessments nationwide, energy conservation programs for commercial and institutional properties, indoor environmental assessments and remediation management, and LEED Certification support. Benda currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Building Owners and Managers Association Hawai‘i. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA) and served as chair of the IAQA Research Committee. Benda has served as chairman of the Board for the Certification of Indoor Air Quality Professionals at the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE). He was named a regional Energy Professional of the Year by AEE in 2005. He is an active member in the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-conditioning Engineers.
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Solar Energy: Understanding the Value Proposition for Hawai‘i’s Businesses
Info: Oct 22 • Thu • 8:00-11:00am • 1 mtg • UHM Krauss 012 (Yukiyoshi Room) • $50 (General), $40 (Student or Government)
With: Mark Duda
Many businesses chose to "go solar" in 2008. For most, despite the obvious appeal of being perceived as "green," these decisions had to make financial sense in a context where, although the energy is free, the up-front investment needed to capture it is substantial. This course reveals the various ways that investments in solar energy make good business sense and how solar systems, which last for 25 years or more, pay for themselves in five years or less. The course reviews advantages and limitations of various state and federal tax incentives, discusses the different financing mechanisms, and examines business models that reduce and hedge operating costs.
Mark Duda is a founding partner with Distributed Energy Partners, LLC, Hawai‘i's premier renewable energy design-build firm. (www.dephawaii.com). He is also president of the Hawai‘i Solar Energy Association, a board member of the Hawai‘i PV Coalition, a member of the Hawai‘i Energy Policy Forum, and a member of the Hawai‘i Clean Energy Initiative Energy Efficiency Working Group. In these roles he is a participant in legislative and regulatory efforts to expand the supply of renewable energy in Hawai‘i. Prior to focusing on energy issues, Mark was a consultant specializing in housing and mortgage market issues and a research analyst at Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies.
Department of Urban and Regional Planning (DURP)
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At the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the Department of Urban and Regional Planning is an academic discipline that fosters a multidisciplinary set of intellectual and practical tools to help us chart our future in an age of uncertainty. We strive to improve the quality of life for present and future generations, both locally and globally, through planning, public policy and social collaboration.
Our mission is consistent with the system mission of the University of Hawai`i which is: "to provide an environment in which faculty and students can discover, examine critically, preserve, and transmit the knowledge and wisdom that will help ensure the survival of present and future generations with improvement in the quality of life." The Department of Urban and Regional Planning serves students, researchers and practitioners in Hawai`i, the mainland, and around the globe, especially from the Asia-Pacific region.
We provide planning education, engage in a broad range of research and enhance professional practice in the areas of multicultural governance, community development, environmental protection, resource management, and infrastructure planning.
Contacts:
Makena Coffman: sustainable energy policy and climate change mitigation
Kem Lowry: Sustainable community and marine protected area management
Luciano Minerbi: Sustainable land use planning and environmental management
Jim Spencer: Sustainable economic development, shelter and services
Karen Umemoto: Community planning for sustainability
Sharon Miyashiro: Sustainability policy in Hawaii
The Sustainability web feature is a joint venture between CDSE, Sustainable Saunders, and DURP

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