How To Be A “Good Ancestor”
Sponsored by both the U.S. Department of State and Auckland UniServices Ltd., a research and commercialization company based at The University of Auckland in New Zealand, the conference was designed to connect clean energy technology experts, as well as government and community leaders, from the United States and New Zealand—and, in so doing, help hasten the global transition to a low-carbon and climate-resilient future.
“Both our countries care deeply about being good environmental stewards,” said Thomas Stewart Udall, the U.S. ambassador to New Zealand, during the conference’s opening session. “Climate change is an existential crisis, particularly in the Pacific, and this conference is about exploring smart solutions, working together to face the challenge head-on.”was invited to share solutions during two conference sessions, titled “Community and Indigenous Innovation” and “Energy Futures.
Greco spent more than a decade managing and guiding renewable energy research—from water power to wind energy, solar power, batteries, and power systems engineering. In the first session, she and her fellow speakers discussed what clean energy experts can learn from Indigenous communities and cultures, like the Māori, who believe in “being a good ancestor,” as panelist Daniel Hikuroa, a senior lecturer at the The University of Auckland, said.
“Being a good ancestor is a mindset consistent with a worldview that sees you as part of nature, not apart from nature,” Hikuroa said. The panelists also discussed the need for Indigenous communities to lead their own clean energy transitions. “The fly-in-fly-out model is not acceptable,” Greco said in her talk. She described the U.S. Department of Energy’s
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