Enabling Community-owned Energy Systems/Grids: 

AJ Perkins, a clean energy innovator known for his work on intelligent energy systems, grid modernization, microgrids, and decentralized infrastructure, presents a unique opportunity to explore how the electric grid of the future can be more resilient, renewable, and democratized.

How can communities safeguard their energy grids? How can they take control over the new and improved energy systems without giving in to the dominating energy structures? And much, much more.

AJ Perkins, Hawaii Pacific Alliance for Worldwide Advancement (HI PAWA) and Fanni Melles, What’s the Future for Smart Cities

AJ Perkins, Hawaii Pacific Alliance for Worldwide Advancement (HI PAWA)

AJ Perkins is an award-winning author, speaker, and the CEO of HI PAWA (Hawaii Pacific Alliance for Worldwide Advancement), a Native Hawaiian-led effort to build the first community-owned utility and hydrogen-powered county in the United States, starting on the Big Island. A LinkedIn Top Voice in Renewable Energy, AJ has helped scale multiple clean tech startups, including Instant ON, where he secured over 3.8GW in microgrid projects and partnerships with companies like Schneider Electric, Bosch, and Honda. His earlier work with TechFlow helped secure a $2.1 billion federal contract and introduced electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure across US military bases. Today, AJ’s focus is on bringing energy ownership, resilience, and economic benefits directly to communities—especially Native, Indigenous, and underserved areas—through clean hydrogen, microgrids, and virtual power plants. He is the author of the forthcoming The Hydrogen Hub Toolkit and speaks regularly at leading energy and sustainability conferences nationwide.

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“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking that created them.” –Albert Einstein

During the weekend of May 3-4, we kickstart our new season with a carefully curated slate of programming—- both live and on demand— all focused on the ideas into actions that you can apply where you are now.

We show our world as it is and what it could become when we adapt a holistic approach to dynamic system design.

The experience:

• Discover the root cause of most of our ongoing crises
• Learn how a new wave of improvements to the fundamental systems, services and policies are restoring health and prosperity in communities worldwide;
• Discover how possibility thinking when put into action can provide a healthier coexistence;
• Understand the smart city movement and how to bring this wisdom into your community;
• Find out how communities are restoring ecological and economic health to their communities through community owned, produced and distributed energy, food and circular systems and services
• Find ways to improve the quality of life through open collaboration and cooperation;
• Overcome misunderstandings and dogma that keep us trapped in an unhealthy viscous cycle of repeat performances
• Find out how you can work with us and with others through a restorative and innovative, interconnected and interdependent solutions news action network!

Who is this for?

• Ethical community leaders
• Architects and whole systems designers
• Media makers and earth shakers who are looking to advance the quality of life where they are and beyond through open collaboration and cooperation;
• Scientists and evolutionary biologists

And yes, there is more!

In order to maintain momentum, join us every Saturday as we advance and amplify the knowledge into action through our Weekly Media Exchanges.

Best of all, it’s free to take part, and the opportunities are immense!

R.S.V.P.

We are on the cusp of the fastest, deepest, most consequential transformation of human civilization in history. — TONY SEBA & JAMES ARBIB, RETHINKX CO-FOUNDERS

Which technology disruptions will shape tomorrow, today?

The world is complex, but not complicated. Change is rapid and brutal. Yet predictable.

RethinkX research charts the course towards a more prosperous, superabundant future for all.

Humanity is on the brink of existential transformation, but we’re blind to the deeper processes of change.

To recognize the mind-blowing possibility space of the next decade, as well as its catastrophic risks, we must grasp the patterns of history to understand how they can illuminate today. Rethinking Humanity takes viewers on a whirlwind tour of the rise and fall of civilizations through a powerful lens that makes sense of the past, so that we can step into the present and create our future.

During the 2020s, key technologies will converge to completely disrupt the five foundational sectors that underpin civilization, and with them every major industry in the world today. In information, energy, food, transportation, and materials, costs will fall by 10x or more, while production processes an order of magnitude more efficient will use 90% fewer natural resources with 10x-100x less waste. The knock-on effects for society will be as profound as the extraordinary possibilities that emerge.

For the first time in history, we could overcome poverty easily. Access to all our basic needs could become a fundamental human right. But this is just one future outcome. The alternative could see our civilization collapse into a new dark age. Which path we take depends on the choices we make, starting today. The stakes could not be higher.

Rethinking Humanity is based on the book authored by James Arbib and Tony Seba (co-founders of RethinkX), available for free download from http://www.rethinkx.com Read the book here: https://www.rethinkx.com/publications… Learn more about Rethinking Humanity on our website: https://www.rethinkx.com/humanity