One Island is hosting the West Hawaii Sustianable Energy Project and an associated project called the Youth Energy  Sustainability Corps - or, the  YES! Corps. We are offering our local youth new green jobs skill development opportunities. YES! will give them the  experience, knowledge, and tools to perform energy efficiency audits for local housholds, small farms, and organizations in the  West Hawaii area. 

Want to know what your electric bill REALLY costs per appliance?

And learn ways to  SAVE on ENERGY COSTS?

Then the YES! CORPS project may have a service for you!!

Using methods developed  in United Nations-sponsored programs in developing countries under the leadership of Solar Quest, we will be running pilot trainings spring and summer of 2009 and begin actual energy audit services for project applicants by fall of 2009. Our goal is to have 225 qualified applicants in our West Hawaii Sustainable Energy grant/loan program and to perform 200 energy audits as part of the application process,many performed with YES! Corps assistance as a community service project.

INVITATION    If you are a student, household, small farm or organization in the rural areas (under 2,500 pop.*) of Honalo in the north to Na’alehu in the south and would like to participate, please email us at hawaii@one-island .org. Mahalo!

* Only community not under 2,500 in the West Hawaii region is the immediate Captain Cook suburb.