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13 years ago, I was living in Washington, D.C.

I was working with the Department of Energy to identify breakthrough technologies to help solve climate change.

And I remember one particular day, sitting in a windowless room and mass of concrete buildings,

and talking with colleagues about how this particular wind technology or solar or battery technology

could solve climate if only we had enough resources.

And then I met my mentor, Maurice Kaya.

And he had a very different perspective.

He lived 5,000 miles away in Hawaii, and he'd been working on the ground

of implementing clean energy technology with communities. He'd been doing it for more than 30 years.

And he asked me, what if we brought this decision-making on breakthrough technologies closer to the

ground, closer to people who are actually being affected by new technologies.

What would that unlock? What would that look like? And he invited me to move to Hawaii to figure out

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