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Celebrate Diversity
by Jan TenBruggencate There was a bumper sticker on the wall at my canoe club. It said (and I’m cleaning this up), “We don’t give a hoot how you used to do it in California.” The bumper sticker...
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Growing Vanilla
by Jan TenBruggencate Kaua`i’s vanilla crop is one of the island’s best-kept secrets, although it’s still a very small secret, because vanilla is nowhere near being an industry on the island. We are...
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Lost Birds — Nurturing Lessons from Failures
Nurturing Lessons from Failures by Jan TenBruggencate Much of the environmental nurturing we’re doing in the Islands is the direct result of our earlier environmental failures—whether conscious...
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Sound Impacts Taste
by Jan TenBruggencate Does fish and poi taste different to the sounds of “Hi`ilawe” than it does to the sound of car traffic, or perhaps Janis Joplin’s “Summertime?” There is evidence that it does....
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Ecosystem Services
Ecosystem Services by Jan TenBruggencate The voyagers who first arrived in the Islands had no problems about food. The ecosystem gave it to them. There’s a modern term for what they found here:...
View ArticleThree Incumbent Directors Re-elected to KIUC Board
Carol Bain, Calvin K. Murashige, and Jan TenBruggencate have been re-elected to the Kaua‘i Island Utility Cooperative’s (KIUC) Board of Directors. These three directors will each serve for a 3-year...
View ArticleKIUC Holds Annual Membership Meeting
KIUC Holds Annual Membership Meeting Kaua‘i Island Utility Cooperative (KIUC) has reached more than 40 percent renewable generation during 2016 and is on track to burn almost 10 million gallons less...
View ArticleKIUC Awarded Energy Technology Award at Hawaiʻi Clean Energy Day Conference
Kaua‘i Island Utility Cooperative (KIUC) President and CEO David Bissell accepted the energy technology award from Governor David Ige at the 8th Annual Hawaii Clean Energy Day Conference on August 16...
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