 Aloha, my name is Annabelle Lijun and this is a Think Tech Speakers Corner Commentary. I'm a student reporter for the Conservation Impacts through Multimedia Storytelling course at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. This is a specialty multidisciplinary course designed by two amazing UH journalism professors, Patricia Buzzkirk and Misa Marayama, who both have extensive experience in media storytelling through film and journalism. This course focuses around the International Union for Conservation of Nature, World Conservation Congress, which is considered the world's most diverse environmental network event. Since its beginning in 1948, the IUCN is happening for the first time in the United States and it's happening right here in Hawaii. The greatest part about this course is the dynamic of each student and the professors. We are all of differing disciplines and backgrounds with a common passion to preserve and protect the world so that we all may be able to experience the aloha of nature. We have decided to brand ourselves aloha nature in an effort to reach a global audience. While the term aloha is worldwide, it has been abused and commercialized. Aloha nature attempts to redefine aloha by helping others to love nature, by understanding that we are loved by nature and to feel responsible for caring for nature because we are part of nature. We aim to appeal to the millennials who are now the largest living generation. Aloha nature is teaming with the IUCN's motive to connect the disconnection that millennials aspire to go green and to actually acting green. As an English and journalism student, this course caters directly to my interest in combining both journalism and world conservation. So far, I have had the opportunity to meet and interview cinematographer Paul Atkins, who's work inspired President Bush to turn part of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands into the world's largest marine national monument. I have had the pleasure of interviewing Erin Lowe, who is Oahu's trail specialist as well. We have been filming and doing a lot of pre-production work, setting up for the IUCN itself with the intention to create a multimedia platform in which we can combine text, videos, audio, photography, and social media to share our work. Aloha nature supports the hashtag nature for all campaign in asking their interviewees to answer with one word. Nature for you is, and my answer is biofilia, which is the instinctive bond that humans feel to nature. It's a term I learned during my biology course as a sophomore in college and it stuck with me because I understand that bond and I want others to experience that bond as well. Aloha nature has a social media campaign question for its audience, in which we ask, if you could ask everyone in the world to do one thing for nature, what would that be? I would ask everyone in the world to spend at least five undisrupted minutes in nature every day, whatever or wherever it may be, just five minutes. I believe that if everyone spends time in nature, they will feel that instinctive bond to nature, therefore slowly changing their lifestyle habits to better improve the health of our earth. I'm Elama Aina and Mahalo for listening. I look forward to hearing about your Aloha nature experiences.