Stone Soup Leadership Institute

Blue Planet Foundation: A Sustainable Legacy of Blue Innovation

One day Henk Rogers woke up in the back of an ambulance, with a 100 percent blockage of the artery to his heart. Later, in the recovery room, as he was flipping through a newspaper, he saw a tiny snippet that alerted him that all of the coral in Hawaii’s waters would be dead by the end of the century. “I realized that there are all of these things going on with climate change that people are just not aware of. And if we don’t do something about them, they will happen. That was when I understood what my mission in life was.” Henk founded the Blue Planet Foundation to drive change, empower youth, and inspire action that will help power the transition to 100 percent clean energy in Hawaii and beyond. And with his help, Hawaii became the first state to mandate this goal.

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