Meet Henk

 

Henk Rogers is the President of the Tetris Company and a pioneer in the video game industry.

In the 1980s, Rogers brought role-playing games to Japan and turned a little-known game called Tetris into an international phenomenon after intense negotiations with the Soviet Union and Nintendo. His efforts helped establish the Game Boy as a market leader and made Tetris one of the most popular games of all time. Rogers’ story became folklore in the gaming industry and is the subject of the 2023 Apple TV+ film “Tetris.”

Today, Rogers is the founder of 10 companies and non-profit organizations focused on renewable energy, space exploration, and ending the use of fossil fuels on Earth. A near-fatal heart attack in 2005 made Rogers identify his true missions in life and led to him founding the Blue Planet Foundation, a non-profit organization that has been instrumental in implementing renewable energy policies in Hawaii. Realizing this model needed to be exported to the rest of the world, Rogers 2021 founded the Blue Planet Alliance, an organization helping island communities disproportionately affected by climate change transition from being reliant on importing fossil fuels to using 100 percent renewable energy.

Rogers is also the founder of Blue Planet Energy, a global leader in renewable energy storage systems, and the International Moonbase Alliance, an organization with the goal to build sustainable settlements on the Moon and Mars and establish Hawaii as a leader in the space industry.

Today, Rogers continues to be an influential figure in both the gaming industry and the sustainable energy sector. He has received numerous awards for his contributions to both fields, including being inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences’ Hall of Fame in 2008 and named CEO of the Year by Hawaii Business Magazine in 2015.

He currently lives between his off-grid ranch in Hawaii and New York City and continues to be an active entrepreneur pursuing his passion for making a positive impact on the world.

“I DO NOT HAVE HOPE, I HAVE DETERMINATION. IN ORDER TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM, WE HAVE TO HAVE DETERMINATION. WE WILL END THE USE OF CARBON-BASED FUEL BY 2045.”

Vision

Henk Rogers’ bold vision for the future centers around his core mission of ending the use of carbon-based fuels and creating a world in which humanity and nature live in harmony.

An influential figure in the fight against climate change, Rogers believes that locally-driven policy change is the essential domino that can activate solutions at the pace and scale needed to meet the challenge of climate change.

In 2007, Rogers’ created the Blue Planet Foundation, an organization which successfully lobbied Hawaiian lawmakers to mandate a legislative commitment to using 100 percent renewable energy sources for electricity in Hawaii by 2045. This groundbreaking legislation provided a reimagined climate strategy and was adopted by twenty-one states and two territories in the United States.

Realizing this model needed to be exported to the rest of the world, Rogers in 2021 founded the Blue Planet Alliance, an organization which helps islands and countries around the world to legislatively mandate a commitment to 100 percent renewable energy by 2045 and stop importing dirty fuels. In 2022, Tuvalu and the Kingdom of Tonga signed on as inaugural members. 

Rogers is also a passionate advocate of creating a sustainable human presence on the Moon and Mars and assists essential laboratory research through his organization, the International MoonBase Alliance.

Career Timeline

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