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The World Congress on Zero Emissions Initiatives wraps up a week-long forum at the Conven-tion Center today, which seeks to move the world from “going green” to “going blue.” “We are looking at what’s re-ally applicable and what can be done logically,” explained Mark McGuffi e, Managing Director of Enterprise Honolulu and one of the coordinators of the event. “We want to address how we can im-prove, rather than take away from, resources and our interaction with nature, and at the same time mak-ing a viable business opportunity.” The reforms presented at the convention focused on energy, food, transportation, health,

housing, water and waste, with the motto “10 years, 100 innova-tions, 100 million jobs.” The ef-fectiveness of the innovations will be demonstrated in case studies, where innovations will be applied successfully. The attendance cost began with a $65 registration fee, and the full ticket price ran up to $975. The forum hosted speakers from international locations such as the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Hawaiian Homelands, several University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa faculty and repre-sentatives, Japan, and Bhutan. Professor Marvin Puakea Nogelmeier, associate profes-sor and graduate chair of the Kawaihuelani Department, was one of the faculty members in-vited to speak at the forum.

“The conference isn’t just about (being) ‘green’ … but about developing systems … that regenerate,” said Nogelmeier. Shanah Trevenna, a student and coordinator of Sustainable UH, explained that “‘Blue’ is be-yond ‘green.’ Green has been equated to sacrifi ce and often something that is not fi nancially viable.” Trevenna attended the fo-rum as a UH representative, with the purpose of bringing back pro-posed initiatives and new ideas to the University. “(UH representatives) will bring back the innovations for re-view. We make a cost-benefi t assess-ment, energy savings, and fi nancial feasibility,” said Trevenna. “There are GSO grants of $10,000 that any-one can apply for, and we are apply-ing to implement new innovations

and technology on campus.” Trevenna cited Saunders Hall as an example. Students removed 50 percent of the lightbulbs in the building, replacing them with so-lar panels. This yielded a savings of $149,900 in one year. Reed Dasenbrock, Vice Chan-cellor of Academic Affairs at UHM, claims that “UH is a real leader in sustainability research.” He adds, “We are aggressively moving to conserve energy on campus … if the energy bill gets cut in half, tuition can go down. It’s altruistic, but it also has a bottom line.” Dasenbrock asserts that the University is on track to cut en-ergy use in half within the next seven or eight years. The World Congress has out-lined “100 Initiatives,” a list of breakthroughs which have prov-en feasible and are cost-effective. “Cleaning without soap” is an at-tempt to remove chemicals from the cleaning process, and fo-cuses on self-cleaning surfaces. The materials are both water-re-pellent and can remove dirt with as little water as can be found in drops of morning dew. This has been dubbed “The Lotus Effect,”

drawing from the self-cleaning abilities of lotus fl owers. “Preservation without Refrig-eration” seeks to offer the medical fi eld an alternative to using syn-thetic, non-biodegradable materi-als that are used in the refrigera-tion of vaccines. The site details the process in which “molecules are trapped in a soluble glass that comes alive when it rains.” The process is based around a coat-ing of sugars that forms small beads which can be “packaged in an inject-able form” which the doctor can hold on to for years. The method was inspired by the biological processes found in ani-mals that live in arid conditions. The allure of job creation in the implementation of the initiatives is a key aspect. If some of the “blue” tech-nologies were to be applied on cam-pus, it would require “a large work-force” for building new systems. “The world goes ‘round with money, so we need that piece, un-fortunately,” said McGuffi e. “That’s where we live and how it works. As long as we tie all those things to-gether, we have a chance.”

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Correction In our last issue (Sept. 15), we should have report-ed James “Duke” Aiona as the current Lieutenant Governor. In that same is-sue, we also should have reported that Aiona wants to “stabilize jobs.” This was an editing error on our part and we apologize for the confusion.

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The forum also invited mem-bers from UH Mānoa’s School of Hawaiian Knowledge to have a cross-dialogue with windward and Waiʻanae farmers. “The goal is to bring in all the different aspects of living on the land and getting to zero emissions in a Hawaiian way, and it’s coming out of the uni-versity,” reported McGuffi e. “The talk is: how we can apply it to living, refl ecting on ancient Hawaiian systems that had great wisdom and effectiveness.” McGuffi e articulated that Hawaiʻi has productive land that can feed everybody, yet the state continues to import 85 percent of its food while land lays fallow. With the closing of the forum, 850 elementary and high school students from Oʻahu and the sur-rounding islands will come to the Convention Center to engage in dialogues with the speakers. “This is really important,” said McGuffi e. “By the time some of the big stuff is done, they will be adults.” In addition, the forum will result in the “Aloha Accord”, which McGuffi e described as “action-oriented” and is intend-ed for worldwide distribution. “I’m interested to see what the outcome will be,” said Nogelmeier. “If I can, I will work to make them happen.”

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Are educators the best ad-ministrators of public education systems? This is the philosophical debate underpinning the upcom-ing November vote on making the Board of Education (BOE) an ap-pointed body. The political sides in this debate are the manifestation of strange bedfellows. This Wednesday, the sides showed up at the William S. Richardson Law School (WSRLS) to debate the issue at a forum put on by the League of Women Voters. The side supporting the Constitutional Amendment for making the BOE an appointed body included WSRLS Profes-sor and former education re-former Randall Roth, and for-mer Gov. Ben Cayetano. Roth and Cayetano are supported by past governors and current Gov. Linda Lingle. The side opposing the

A mendment included Joan Husted, co -founder of the Hawai ‘ i Student Teacher As -sociat ion (HS TA), and Garret t Toguchi, current Chairman of the BOE. They did not men-t ion any speci f ic supporters of their posit ions. Both sides were candid and had their arguments lined up. Roth’s belief is that Hawai‘i has to try something new be-cause our current situation is

not working. The perception of everyone receiving the prod-ucts of Hawai‘i’s education sys-tem, namely businesses, labor unions and the military, is that Hawai‘i’s education system is “falling short of where they think we should be right now.” Roth’s argument is that Hawai‘i’s students are not capable

of working in professional jobs. That being said, even if making the BOE an appointed entity does not solve everything, it is at least some-thing new that we should try. Cayetano also supports Roth’s posit ion because he believes that the education unions, such as the Hawai‘i State Teachers Association and the Hawai‘i Government Employees Association, con-trol the BOE. In Cayetano’s

opinion, i f he had the ability to appoint the BOE when he was governor, he would have ap -pointed people who were inde-pendent of the unions. Roth and Cayetano were saying that the unions have run Hawai‘i’s public education sys-tem for the past 40 years and they have failed Hawai‘i’s stu-

dents. Perhaps it is time to give the governor a try. Toguchi disagreed with the assumption that Hawai‘i’s stu-dents were failing. His argument rested on the much touted fact that only 51 percent of Hawai‘i’s schools failed to achieve yearly progress goals under the No Child Left Behind Act, down from 65 percent last year. Toguchi believes that things are getting better. Of course, in 2008 only 59 percent of Hawai‘i schools failed to achieve yearly progress goals, but who’s count-ing? Toguchi thought the BOE was doing just fi ne. Husted’s argument was more nuanced. She did not believe the BOE should be appointed, but thought it needed to be expand-ed from the current 14 members to 25 members. Those members should be elected from each electoral district. Her philosophical problem with making the BOE appointed stemmed from her dedication

to preserving the BOE’s demo-cratic character. She merely thought the fact that most peo-ple do not know who their BOE representatives are is because BOE representatives were not close enough to the people. As Toguchi admit ted ear -l ier in the debate, al l the BOE members were highly quali -f ied because they al l had edu-cat ion backgrounds. For Cayetano, that is exactly the problem. He pointed out that the new superintendent, Kathy Matayoshi, was not an educator. “In the past only educators had a crack at the job…because if things don’t work you’ve got to try something else…when you’re too close to the action sometimes you don’t see the problems,” said Cayetano. Ultimately, the two sides did not find common ground though they asked an important ques-tion: Are Hawai‘i’s educators too close to the schools to objectively fix the problems?

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Hawai‘i once played BYU in the longest women’s volleyball match in NCAA history. In 1998, the Rainbow Wahine won a 3 hour and 38 minute mara-thon in fi ve sets for the Western Ath-letic Conference Championship. This Friday and Saturday, the Hawai‘i and BYU rivalry will be renewed. Both matches are at 7 p.m. in the Stan Sheriff Center. “We’re excited,” junior outside hitter Kanani Danielson said. “It ’s going to be a big test seeing what we can do on another off-WAC conference team.” When the BYU Cougars were still in the WAC, they were consid-ered UH’s most heated rival in all sports by coaches, players and fans. But head coach Dave Shoji said that his current players aren’t old enough to have experi-enced the rivalry since BYU left the WAC in 1999. “I don’t think our team knows anything about the history be-tween BYU,” Shoji said. “We had a great rivalry in volleyball for awhile but our players are too young to know about that so they’ll take it as another good team and prepare for them.” The No. 6 Rainbow Wahine (8-1) haven’t played the Cougars since sweeping them in the sec-ond round of the 2003 NCAA tour-nament, but Hawai‘i is looking to send BYU home this year with the same result. “They’re tough,” Shoji said.

“They have a good team, they’ll have some talent and it ’ll be an-other good weekend for us.” The back-to-back matchup against BYU is the only time this season that the Rainbow Wahine will face the same opponent on

consecutive days. Shoji said this involves mak-ing quick adjustments if needed. “When you play back-to-back it’s all about the losing team making some adjustments and the winning team probably stays the same,”

Shoji said. “But you just have to pre-pare for them once and try to make adjustments for the second night.” BYU (3-7) has lost its last three matches. The most recent defeat was a 3-2 loss to WAC mem-ber Utah State Tuesday night. Seven of the Cougars’ ten match-es this season went the full fi ve sets –

including all three of their victories. Senior setter Kiana Rogers currently leads the Cougars with 8.82 assists per set, placing her fourth in the Mountain West Con-ference. Senior outside hitter/middle blocker Stephanie Snow ranks seventh in the MWC in hit-ting percentage at .292.

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Every loss holds potential for a team to learn and improve. The Rainbow Wahine soccer team is looking to bounce back from last week’s 1-2 road trip. “We learned a lot from all of the setbacks,” head coach Pinsoom Ten-zing said. “It’s a learning process.” The ’Bows won their fi rst game of the road trip against the University of San Francisco 3-2, but lost their next two games to California and St. Mary’s by a combined score of 11-1. Now back home, the Rainbow Wahine are looking to apply what they learned from their road trip in this week Outrigger Hotels and Resorts Soccer Classic. The tournament includes the Pepperdine Waves (4-2-1) of the West Coast Conference and Washington State Cougars (2-6) of the Pac-10. The ’Bows take on the Cou-gars today at 7 p.m. at the Waipi’o Peninsula Soccer Stadium. The Waves take on the Cou-gars on Saturday and the Rainbow Wahine will return to action on Sunday 5 p.m. against the Waves to close out the tournament.

The Cougars could be a tough matchup. They began the season ranked in the top 25 but dropped out of the polls after losses to No. 2 Florida State, No. 9 Texas A&M and No. 12 BYU. “Both the teams have person-nel that can compete with the very best,” Tenzing said. “We don’t take either of them lightly.” Although the waves Waves aren’t nationally ranked, they are coming off of a solid three-game stretch where they won two games and tied a third. Both teams also play in diffi -cult conferences. The Pac-10 has four top-25 teams and the WCC boasts three. But the game plan will not change for the ‘Bows for either game. The game game plan is to play hard and focus on their strengths. “We are focusing on our-selves,” Tenzing said. “We are the team we are worrying about, not the other side.” And despite their 2-5 record, the ’Bows have had positive and upbeat practices. “Nobody is hanging their heads,” Tenzing said. “You can see that this is a not a team where people have given up.”

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Sophomore middle blocker Brittany Hewitt strikes the ball in the Rainbow Wahine’s victory over Saint Mary’s College on Sept. 11 at the Stan Sheriff Center. Hewitt currently leads the nation with 1.87 blocks per game.

RUSSELL TOLENTINO

Sports Editor

Some athletes break under pressure. But for Rainbow Wahine goalie Kanani Taaca, pressure has made her stronger. “Kanani is a high intensity athlete that is always working hard in games and in training,” assistant coach Vanessa Works said. “As a goalkeeper she does not give up …I have yet to see her quit.”

COLLEGE ADJUSTMENTS Taaca graduated from Kamehameha Schools in 2008 where she was the start-ing goalkeeper for three state champion-ship teams and was named state tourna-ment most valuable player twice. But despite her prep success, Taaca said the transition from high school to a Division I soccer program – while balanc-ing school and life – was tough. “The main adjustment in college is it ’s more of a time-management thing,” Taaca said. “We live soccer. We wake up, we lift weights, we go to school, we have practice, we do homework and do it all over again.” The 5-foot-6 sophomore redshirted her fi rst season with the ’Bows and said it helped her adjust to collegiate soccer and the team’s system. She practiced and scrim-maged but did not lose a year of eligibility. “I was able to learn and get accus-tomed to everything before it even start-ed,” she said. “Kori Lu (former Rainbow

Wahine goalie) took me under her wing and she really taught me the ropes.” Senior defender Chelsea Deptula has seen Taaca mature as a D-I athlete. “She’s defi nitely showing improve-ments since high school years,” Deptula said. “That growth has given her a little bit more confi dence that she needs.” Familiar faces on the team also helped. “The speed of play in college is a lot fast-er than it is in high school but what made it easier for me is that I already played with most of the players on the team,” Taaca said. “I had a lot of confi dence in that.” Taaca played with forward Mari Pun-

zal for four years at Kamehameha and was on the same club team as Deptula. “That was the easiest thing transition-wise,” Taaca said. “I was able to play with peo-ple I already knew so I wasn’t that afraid.” But that’s not to say being a starter and playing in front of 1,000 fans a night wasn’t a little overwhelming. “When I started to play, it took get-ting used to all the big games with all the fans and having kids come in after the game to get your autograph – it ’s a big eye-opener,” Taaca said.

VOICE OF LEADERSHIP Perhaps Taaca’s greatest strength, accord-ing to her teammates, is her soothing leadership. “Playing all my years with Kanani, I’ve always loved her as my goalkeeper,” said Punzal, who noted some goalies yell at their team instead. “She’ll talk to you in a way that’s demanding but she’ll make you feel calm and confi dent.” Deptula had a similar response. “She’s very good with her words and communicating with the defense especial-ly and that’s the biggest thing she brings to our team,” Deptula said. Added Works, “The rest of the team has confi dence in Kanani to keep the at-mosphere positive no matter what the situ-ation is. She does not dwell on negativity and is always getting everyone to smile.” Punzal said that Taaca has made a smooth transition to college ball and that

her attitude in since high school has re-mained the same. “Kanani hasn’t changed at all. She al-ways had that perseverance to be at the top of her game,” Punzal said. “Kanani can go into her game zone quickly and she takes everything seriously – she’s just very strong willed. “She knows what she’s doing and she has great vision for the f ield,” Pun-zal continued. “I think she’s the best goalkeeper in WAC (Western Athletic Conference) right now.” Taaca began playing soccer at fi ve years old and she has always been the goalie.

“I was put in the goal once and I never came out,” Taaca laughed. Works, who oversees the goalies, said Taaca works hard. “She wants to be the best goalkeeper she can and never wants to let her team down,” said. “It is very rare to have a goal-keeper that is always ready to train hard and never lets off negative attitude. She is a pleasure to coach.”

FOUNDATION OF FAITH Taaca attributes her actions and atti-tude to her faith. “It plays a significant role in my life,” said Taaca, who is catholic and attends Sacred Hearts Church in Waianae with her family every Sunday. “It (faith) gives you a lot of confi-dence and a lot belief in yourself be-cause you have a good, strong belief

system and background of what you know,” Taaca said. Before games, the team huddles and Taaca leads prayer while other members sometimes read bible scriptures. “I really think it brings the team to-gether especially before games,” Taaca said. “We can all rely on one thing and have a common goal.” Taaca said she’s not planning on playing professionally after college, but will look over her options if the opportunity comes up. If not, Taaca, who is majoring in kine-siology, is content. “I’m not really looking to go into soc-cer at a higher level after this,” she said. “I really want to go to therapy school and start my career.” But until then, Taaca is enjoying her time as a Rainbow Wahine – pressure and all. “I enjoy the excitement,” she said.

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JOEL KUTAKA / KA LEO O HAWAI‘I

Sophomore goalie Kanani Taaca is a two-year starter. She has started all seven games this season and has made 17 saves for the Rainbow Wahine.

Kanani hasn’t changed at all. She always had that perseverance to be at the top of her game.