HPU’s Green Campus Project kicked off March 9 on upper
Fort Street Mall, its pioneer project a recycling program inaugurated
by Proud to be Pinoy, the Filipiono student organization at
HPU. The event was followed at 8 p.m. by a “Movie on
the Mall” screening of former Vice President Al Gore’s
Academy-Award-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth, presented
by HPU in collaboration with the Honolulu Culture and Arts
District, the Fort Street Business Improvement District, and
Paradise Cinema.
The Green Campus Project event began with entertainment, a
preface to the club’s initiative to provide and maintain
HI-5 recycling bins in campus buildings. The event featured
environmentally themed games, activities, and exhibits, as
well as three local Filipino entertainers: Kristian Lei, international
stage performer and CEO of Honolulu Broadway Babies; Randy
Valencia of the Night Shade Band; and HPU travel industry management
senior Joey Monforte. Joni B. Redick, president and founder
of Filipino American Multi Ethnic Society (FAMES), served as
the emcee, and HPU assistant professor of management Michelle
Alarcon-Catt, director of the Green Campus project, hosted
the event.
In the film, which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary,
Gore asks audiences to act “boldly, quickly, and wisely” in
the fight to save the environment from global climate change.
