Called one of the “7 Hottest CEOs ” by Treehugger. com and one of Red Herring’s “Top 25 Entrepreneurs under 35,” Quayle Hodek is a pioneer in the field of renewable energy. As the CEO of Renewable Choice Energy, Quayle has been on a mission to convince companies that switching to renewable energy is the right thing to do, for the planet and the bottom line.
Recorded at TEDxMaui 2013, held on January 13, 2013 at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center.
Quayle Hodek misspent his youth, I fear. I am not grateful to him for bypassing my low-income house to put solar panels on agricultural (or otherwise usable) land "to the horizon." I am not grateful to him for centralizing power in the hands of a few to "save the world." So you will excuse me if I am a little jaundiced at his decision to leave the country and go help the poor in a more socially acceptable milieu. It is a blessing to them, but it's akin to his stepping on our collective face to get to the lightbulb. All the sentimental viewers of the talk shows he will be (has been?) invited to will have tears in their eyes. If they are smart, it will be tears for themselves. Democracy and independence can not and does not operate well when financial and, therefore, political power is held by so few. To talk about these Guatemalan households having the opportunity to autonomously light their homes, without Big Brother breathing down their necks, after earning his money from empowering Big Brother here shows his inability to think outside of the trend he is riding.