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Leimana Pelton
Dean Johnston

Affiliations and Endorsements


Affiliations and Endorsements >

"We look forward to working with you and providing whatever support we can. This is a very special and exciting project and I wish you all the best." -- Michael Karp, President and Chief Executive Officer: A World Institute for a Sustainable Humanity (A.W.I.S.H.)

"I am pleased to be writing on behalf of Bamboo Village Hawaii in order to give m endorsement and blessings to their
fine mission of bringing in an eco-ethical bamboo industry to the Big Islandand as a model for the world. I have known chairman, Leimana Pelton for a long time, and can state that his knowledge and experience are professional.I had the opportun ity to visit the treatment facility on the big Island, and it is an excellent low-cost design based on the latest technologies.I wish B.V.H the best of luck with their endeavors.” -- Professor, Dr. Walter Liese, University of Hamburg, Germany.

"What BVH is doing and proposes to accomplish in bamboo construction training programs and research in the near future is important and exciting. Please let me know if I can be of any assistance." -- Professor Jules J. A. Janssen, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands

We also stay in close ties with other organizations both local, national, and international. Bamboo Village is developing lines of communication with INBAR (International Network Of Bamboo and Rattan), the American Bamboo Society and A.W.I.S.H. (A World Institute For a sustainable Humanity); as well as local institutions like Hawaii County Economic Opportunity Council, Department of Hawaiian Homelands, Hawaiian County Research and Development, Fuku Bonsai Nursery, Big Island Resource and Development and others.