Xing dong! Xing dong! Xing dong!” (Mandarin for “Action! Action! Action!”) is one refrain wafting on the Hawaiian breeze. The other is “Collaborate! Collaborate! Collaborate!” Laurance S. Rockefeller, the American philanthropist and conservationist, would have been intrigued by the meeting taking place this past January in a ballroom of the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, which he built on the Big Island of Hawaii in 1965. On the one hand, the appurtenances suggest just another blah-blah conference: podium, screen, cookies, coffee. On the other, a new day seems to be dawning.
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