Larry Ellison Has Grand Plans To Reintroduce Agriculture To Lanai

Larry Ellison is doubling down on his quest to make the Hawaiian island of Lanai a beacon of sustainable living. "I was just looking at the Lanai five-year budget," he told a group in Las Vegas recently. "And wow, it's expensive." The Oracle CEO bought 98 percent of the island in 2012 for $300 million and has since described a grand and ambitious vision for an environmental Utopia -- one that includes everything from electric cars to solar- and wind-powered desalination projects. But one of the ...