LIHUE — Appointed in early May as Hawaii Life’s Director of Conservation and Legacy Lands, Beth Thoma Robinson was one of the first real estate agents who joined Hawaii Life on Hawaii Island in 2009.
She has worldwide experience as a Wall Street banker and in consulting and leadership development businesses. In 2006, she began her career in Hawaii real estate.
“I am honored and humbled to be appointed to this new role as conservation director, a way to combine my real estate knowledge with my passion for protecting this special part of the world,” Robinson said.
Hawaii Life is the first brokerage to hire a conservation director and Robinson’s responsibilities include identifying and tracking conservation priorities across Hawaii, particularly those properties that are either for sale or potentially coming to market.
Robinson will also lead the firm’s efforts as a resource for owners and sellers of properties with conservation values.
The goal is to generate awareness for the role that conservation plays in Hawaii’s future and make resources available to conservation-minded sellers and buyers of real estate, according to Hawaii Life representatives.
“Land is a zero-sum game in Hawaii, and it is among our most precious natural and cultural resources,” said Matt Beall, principal broker and Hawaii Life CEO. “Creating this position enables us to use our reach and influence to further conserve land.”
Beall and Hawaii Life have been working with Hawaiian Islands Land Trust (HILT) toward conservation of land on Hawaii since 2011 when HILT was founded.
Robinson said she’s looking forward to furthering that goal in her new position and sharing her expertise with brokers, agents and clients throughout Hawaii.
“As a practicing real estate broker, she has been representing sellers of conservation and legacy properties since joining Hawaii Life,” said Beall. “Beth is so clearly the right person for this role.”
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Jessica Else, environment reporter, can be reached at 245-0452 or jelse@thegardenisland.com
Is this a joke? The number one TVR seller and rental agency. The number one seller of large estates, ocean front parcels, developer of pristine lands. Now a “conservation group”, a good marketing plot. If you want to save the land, don t use these scam artistas.
I tend to agree with the comment that there is likely at least a partial profit motive involved here. On the other hand, it is common, especially on Kauai, for real estate agents to have much more in mind that merely profit (otherwise, why live on Kauai vs, say Silicon Valley, or in one of the many other places where profit motives are easier to fulfill?) You can love the islands, the environment, the wonderful Kauai lifestyle and work to preserve it while still making a living with island values at the base.
Aloha Kakou,
As the song said…”Pave Paradise and put up a Parking Lot…!” Just be sure, for sure, no excuses, that the parking is not only for Mercedes Benz, and the lesser vehicles like older pickups trucks are not just for servants and house keepers, and repairmen.
Yesterday the Kaua’i Obituary had only one dear Soul who passed on; yet the Kaua’i Birth Anouncements had 12 new Keiki needing to be born and raised, though it said nothing about housing for them as they get older.
12 to 1 ratio. 12 in and only 1 out.
Developers by the airport advertise AFFORDABLE Housing AT UPPER $400,000.00’s, does that mean closer to $500,000.00 ? 1/4 acre lots for more than $400,000.00 elsewhere, the majority of houses For Sale are over $1,000.000.00.
Derek Kawasaki got it right, he said we’re gonna need 4 story houses, assuming we need housing for 4 generations.
We already have lots of 3 generation families in 1house in 1 and 2 story dwellings. And what’s next, tents in the yard, or driveway…?
Already new homes on Kauai must have solar water heaters, good idea, (and maybe some wood burner water heaters too to clean the island after storms, or the albezia and other invasives).
What could enhance vertical housing to save land for home farming and keiki outdoor space, would be to require homes be built with flat roofs (sloped for rain runoff) wherein they are engineered for rapid addition of the needed when needed 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floor occupants when they come into the family.
Let’s not forget the double 2×6 studs in the walls of new homes , etc, to support the added additional floors’ weight when houses need to go up to higher floors for the next generations that will never stop coming, as Nature would have it..
The other candidates both mayoral and council should get on board with this type mandatory construction, a few extra $$$’s now vs. 3 more generations later. 12:1 birth ratio is not going away anytime soon.
There’s no law yet about how many babies you can have, nor how many rich people can move here…! Besides after the future floods, the upper floors will still be livable…better to make the 1st floors concrete for hosing the mud out without permanent damage.
We cannot predict flood or tsunami waters…Be Prepared…!
Conservancy should include protecting Families too.
Mahalo,
Charles