Kailua, Hawaii, United States
Interest in ecological issues came into focus during two summers I spent at a camp in the protected Canoe Country of northern Minnesota at ~ 13-14 years of age. During college I took further classes for two summer sessions at the University of Minnesota's Biological Field Station at Itaska State Park. After a few life changes and four more years of school I took a job for 20 years in an anesthesia department in Hawaii. There, in addition to anesthesia, I wrote our department's first computer software to calculate and manage individual patient case charges and the subsequent billing(s) to those one or more insurance carriers. I also designed and built, with the significant help of a Swiss machinist friend, a prototype drug dispensing machine and software to be used in the operation of anesthesia departments. Some deep pocket outfits beat us to market. Since then my activities have returned full time to ecological accountability, e.g., there has been over the last few years a land use issue in my home town in Hawaii to preserve a particular section of currently wooded wetland. I mention it as it's cause was the setting for my meeting two of the original Directors of The Hamakua Group, active since 2015 but formally incorporated as a 501(c)(3) in 2021. I organized it on my own dime to expressly use its website to provide local ecological education, and to promote relevant actions. It is the nonprofit which will initially manage the pyrolysis unit(s) of The Hamakua Biochar Initiative & Network. - See more under Projects.
Promotion of Environmental Accountability