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Tetris founder's family village is collapse-proof, remote offgrid-topia

• Kirsten Dirksen - YouTube.com

High in the hills of Hawaii's Big Island, Henk Rogers—best known for bringing Tetris to the world - is taking on a new kind of challenge: building a fully off-grid life. On his 32-acre Pu?uwa?awa?a Ranch, he's growing his own food, producing his own energy, and working to protect Hawaii's future.

At his main home, Rogers tends an abundant edible garden with bananas, avocados, macadamia nuts, coffee, vegetables, and chickens. Nearby, he cares for an orchard of native plants, harvesting seeds and storing them in a seed bank on his property.

Thanks to solar-powered refrigeration, the seed bank also serves as a resource for West Hawaii seed savers working to preserve local plant varieties.

Across the property, Rogers showed us the incarnation of his childhood dream - a James Bond-style personal testing lab. The Blue Planet Energy Lab is a sleek, solar-powered structure designed to test cutting-edge technologies. 


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