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May 17, 2017

How a Startup Program Spun Out of a 35-Year-Old Nonprofit

I’d like to introduce you to Dennis Teranishi. He is currently the CEO of a Hawaii-based nonprofit called the Pacific International Center for High Technology Research (PICHTR). PICHTR’s concept was originally discussed by the…

Lauren Tonokawa in The Originals

Feb 25, 2018

Science Bowl

What is the most common term used in genetics to describe the observable physical characteristics of an organism caused by the expression of a gene or set of genes? If you answered “phenotype,” you are correct. If the area of a regular pentagon is 280 square centimeters, what is the length, in…

Lauren Tonokawa in The Originals

Feb 25, 2018

Innovation is Critical and Saying It’s Hard is an Understatement

Last month, I wrote about Hawaii’s 100 percent renewable energy goal and the history behind it through stories told by Maurice Kaya. In my conversation with the man who led the Hawaii State Energy Office from 1988 to…

Lauren Tonokawa in The Originals

Feb 25, 2018

Moments in Time

I’d like you to meet Josh Stanbro. On May 1st, he became the City & County of Honolulu’s first Chief Resilience Officer. Josh, Adam Pereira — Information Officer for the Office of the Mayor, and I sat in the Mayor’s conference room at 5:30 p.m. on a Wednesday talking about the moments in life that…

Lauren Tonokawa in The Originals

Feb 25, 2018

From Kalihi Valley to Silicon Valley

This week I had breakfast with Guy Kawasaki, an early employee at Apple, brand evangelist for an Australian startup called Canva, and a 1972 graduate of Iolani School. Our breakfast was followed immediately by a talk-story session at the Manoa Innovation Center and…

Lauren Tonokawa in The Originals

Feb 25, 2018

The Role of a Regulator

I was on my way to work and ran into a friend / mentor / former colleague on the street who had been reading my columns. I asked him what I should write about next and he said the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission (PUC). When I asked Commissioner Lorraine Akiba about this interview…

Lauren Tonokawa in The Originals

May 17, 2017

The Path to 100% Clean Energy was Decades in the Making

It has been 10 months since Governor David Ige signed a bill setting a goal of 100 percent renewable energy in Hawaii’s power sector. With that, Hawaii became the first state in the nation to set such an aggressive goal. This did not…

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