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Josh W. Porter

Co-Host
Solar Coaster L.L.C.
Makawao, Hawaii, United States

Raised in Bruce Springsteen country on the beaches of New Jersey, Josh spent a brief year living in Manhattan before heading out on America’s antiquated rail system, eventually making it to Japan. After a year or two in Osaka and Nagano, Josh spent the better part of his twenties based out of Tokyo, developing language and cultural exchange programming for the Peace Boat organization. Twenty global circumnavigations and about a hundred port cities later, Josh moved to Maui HI to raise his five-year-old daughter in the paradise, known as Maui, sitting on a rock in the center of the 21st centuries’ engine room of the planet.

Entrepreneurial by nature Josh has built a stable of companies with a focus on products and services that make him smile when he wakes up in the morning and cry when he goes to sleep at night.

Josh is the Solarcoaster radio program co-host and founder. He started this endeavor because he really enjoys hearing himself talk and wanted to make sure he had an archive of his own voice on tap at any given moment should this insatiable need arise.

Josh is also the President and owner of Maui Solar Project and its subsidiaries. Because he thought it would be noble to duke it out with utilities and other entrenched corporate interests to make sure the next twenty years of living on our planet doesn’t look like a trailer to the movie ” The Day After Tomorrow ” www.mauisolarproject.org.

Josh likes skiing, sailing, golf and other sports of the elite that cost a boatload of money and remind him that he is no longer living in the hood of New Jersey. He’s not very good at any of them although he’s mastered the art of playing badly with a smile.

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