After you have exhausted what
there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on --
have found that none of these finally satisfy,
or permanently wear -- what remains?
Nature Remains.
Walt Whitman
E HAVE FORMED AN INSTITUTION, closely affiliated with scientists in the University of Hawaii and dedicated to formulating and carrying out applications of their environmental research. The Center for a Sustainable Future is designed as a private institution with the goal of bringing together scientists, engineers, and economists to address long-range technological issues arising from the need to achieve sustainable development. Our focus will be on Hawaii, the tropical Pacific and the Pacific Rim. Sustainable and environmentally benign development for the future will require institutions devoted to the long range, interdisciplinary efforts required to create the needed technologies. The Center for a Sustainable Future will see to the integration of new scientific research and development with the economic and policy studies required for implementation.
We plan to locate the CSF on Coconut Island, a coral reef preserve in Kaneohe B ay, Oahu, Hawaii. CSF will be closely linked to the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB), which is located on Oahu's Coconut Island in Hawaii. Land for the facility has been purchased by the University of Hawaii Foundation, the result of a generous grant from the Pauley Family.The island lies on a coral reef marine preserve in Kaneohe Bay, and CSF and HIMB will work jointly in a coupled research, education, and community outreach effort to reach accord on regulations for the use of the bay, its reefs, fisheries, and its watersheds to preserve it from environmental damage. The center and its associated infra-structure of utilities services and waste treatment are planned to serve as a demonstration for sustainable living.
The CSF is a private, not-for-profit corporation affiliated with the University of Hawaii Foundation. The UH Foundation is itself a not-for-profit corporation separate from, but serving in the interest of the University to raise private funding for University programs. The CSF's President is C. Barry Raleigh, Dean of the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawaii. Its founders are Kenneth Brown, Tommy Holmes, and James Gaines, Director of Materials Science Program at UH. The Chief Scientists are Professors Ed Laws and Fred Mackenzie of the University of Hawaii. The CSF was established by a generous gift from the H. K. Castle Foundation.
A Mission Statement provides more information about the history of, and the reasons for, the founding of the center.
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