We have begun to see our early efforts in research and education mature:

• In the fall of 2007, a new Hawai‘i County Energy Sustainability Plan was completed.
• The Energy Plan will be complemented by work on food and water systems.
• A unified GIS Infrastructure is being built to integrate Western scientific and Hawaiian scientific and cultural data. An important part of the GIS Infrastructure is a decision support and knowledge management system that will make data available to science, education, and even policy initiatives that relate to natural resource management issues.
• To ensure that strong intellectual leadership moves us forward into the future, the Mellon-Hawai‘i Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship Program was established.
• To ensure that island youth can assume positions in a knowledge based economy, a new science program is being installed for the entire Kohala Elementary School.