{"id":85114,"date":"2018-10-04T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T18:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=85114"},"modified":"2020-08-07T14:27:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T00:27:24","slug":"kapiolani-cc-sustainability-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/04\/kapiolani-cc-sustainability-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Kapi\u02bbolani <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> sustainability project generates fuel, fertilizer and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q6G3NYpB5ys?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/kapiolani-biodiesel-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/kapiolani-biodiesel-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Man pouring oil\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-85317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/kapiolani-biodiesel-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/kapiolani-biodiesel-1-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/kapiolani-biodiesel-1.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chemistry, culinary and economics students are involved in an award-winning sustainability project at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kapiolani.hawaii.edu\/\"><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College<\/a> that they hope will serve as a model for others.<\/p>\n<p>The fertilizer in the culinary program\u2019s garden, and the fuel running a campus golf cart, all started as used cooking oil from the college\u2019s kitchens.<\/p>\n<p>The waste cooking oil goes into a processor on campus, and biodiesel and (the byproduct) glycerin come out.<\/p>\n<p>The chemistry students are researching the optimal formula to fertilize their campus garden and culinary students will monitor the yield of crops from the garden which will be used in the preparation of meals served in cafeteria. The chemistry students are also researching using glycerin for candles and a degreaser, as well as cosmetic and Hawaiian medicinal uses. Economics students will use the glycerin for an entrepreneurial marketing project to develop an all-natural bar soap.<\/p>\n<p>The sustainability effort won the 2018 <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> President\u2019s Green Project award and $10,000.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I really enjoy this project because it\u2019s a real world application of what I learned in the class,&rdquo; said <strong>Victoria Hallett<\/strong>, a natural science biology student who submitted the grant proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Through a dual-credit program, Kaimuki Christian School seniors Elise and <strong>Emily Kuwaye<\/strong> are among the chemistry students working on the project.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think it goes to show that you don\u2019t necessarily need millions of dollars in order to forward the protection of our environment,&rdquo; said <strong>Elise Kuwaye<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Emily Kuwaye added, &ldquo;What I\u2019m hoping will come out of this project is just new ways for us to be more sustainable.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Another team member <strong>Celeste Guiles<\/strong> was a dual-credit homeschooled student last year who is a full-time <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr> student this year. The chemistry students have already learned six different ways to test the biodiesel for purity and quality.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We live on an island, so sustainability becomes very important,&rdquo; said their chemistry teacher, Associate Professor <strong>Kathleen Ogata<\/strong>. &ldquo;I think teaching our students also about real-world issues is a very good thing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Kelli Trifonovitch<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/kapiolani-biodiesel-car.jpg\" alt=\"Two people in a golf cart\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-85316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/kapiolani-biodiesel-car.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/kapiolani-biodiesel-car-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chemistry, culinary and economics students are involved in an award-winning sustainability project at <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[251,184,377,197,63,73,71,56],"class_list":["post-85114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-chemistry","tag-culinary","tag-culinary-arts-program","tag-economics","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-sustainability","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85114"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124646,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85114\/revisions\/124646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}