{"id":94230,"date":"2019-04-08T10:45:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T20:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=94230"},"modified":"2019-05-10T15:47:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T01:47:22","slug":"students-rhetoric-renewable-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/04\/08\/students-rhetoric-renewable-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心视频<\/abbr> Hilo students use rhetoric to promote 100&#37; renewable energy goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_57508\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O3E20RUxE5Y?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Energy Storage\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> students partnered with local organizations to apply rhetoric, the art of persuasion, to <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>\u2019s goal of transitioning to 100 percent renewable energy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_94234\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94234\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/hilo-rhetoric-renewable-energy.jpg\" alt=\"three students smiling\" width=\"250\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/hilo-rhetoric-renewable-energy.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/hilo-rhetoric-renewable-energy-93x130.jpg 93w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/hilo-rhetoric-renewable-energy-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-94234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student team that produced &ldquo;Energy Storage&rdquo; video posted above. From left: Malia Bryman, Maximilian Abraham and Cody Pacheco. Photo courtesy of <abbr>糖心视频<\/abbr> Hilo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Undergraduate students created abstracts, videos and infographics in collaboration with Blue Planet Foundation, a local nonprofit promoting renewable energy and sustainability in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>. Students are participating in Blue Planet\u2019s &ldquo;We Are 100&rdquo; campaign to gather 100 stories statewide to support <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>&#8216;s journey to clean energy.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Many of the student teams chose to highlight sustainability efforts by <abbr>糖心视频<\/abbr> Hilo, including the solar panels on the Edwin H. Mookini Library, refill water stations, sustainability club and solar-powered charging stations,&rdquo; said <strong>Patsy Iwasaki<\/strong>, <abbr>糖心视频<\/abbr> Hilo English instructor.<\/p>\n<p>Students\u2019 creations will be featured on Blue Planet Foundation\u2019s website and compiled into a published book as part of the organization\u2019s &ldquo;We Are 100&rdquo; campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Iwasaki has received positive feedback from Blue Planet Foundation and <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Energy, a customer-funded conservation and efficiency program administered by Leidos Engineering <abbr title=\"limited liability company\">LLC<\/abbr>. The program is sponsoring three students to attend <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Energy\u2019s April 17 Innovation Symposium on <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;<span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Energy was impressed with the students\u2019 enthusiasm, communication skills and excellent projects,&rdquo; said Iwasaki. &ldquo;Two of the student videos will be featured in an ongoing loop at the conference.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/news\/stories\/2019\/04\/05\/rhetoric\/\">To read the full story see <em><abbr>糖心视频<\/abbr> Hilo Stories<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;Written by <strong>Leah Sherwood<\/strong>, a graduate student in the tropical conservation biology and environmental science program at <abbr>糖心视频<\/abbr> Hilo.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students created abstracts, videos and infographics in collaboration with Blue Planet Foundation to promote renewable energy and sustainability in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1359,342,672,73,14,907,56],"class_list":["post-94230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-energy","tag-english","tag-renewable-energy","tag-sustainability","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-hilo-stories","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94230"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94238,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94230\/revisions\/94238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}