04-04-2010, 05:16 AM
quote:I completely agree. In my perfect world -
Originally posted by JerryCarr...I do feel, however, that sustainable specialty agriculture, eco-tourism, renewable energy, and location-oriented scientific research (astronomy, tropical agriculture, geo-thermal, etc.) have not been sufficiently incentivized.
Eco-tourism is something that really could be a benefit. We could have one of the best places to bike around the island. But right now it's not that safe to do - and car rental companies and big hotels would fight it. Why dont we have something like the PCT ? Our PCT could be the King's trail only it would not take 5-6 months!
As for specialty crops, yes! Also the specialty fish.
Now here's an idea (not original mind you) - what if all the medical marijuana was tagged - just like buying hunting tags - Buy a tag once every year for $250-500 and you can grow one plant. You can have one plant for every tag (with a max # of tags). One of the news channels said Puna has 4000+ med marijuana people - lets see $300 x 4000 = $1,200,000 versus begging feds for war on drugs money - money can go into ice/meth war instead or maybe (gasp!) into rehab/prevention of ice/meth.
And yes, make our UH Hilo a world class scientific university! Not sports school (which there is no money for!). The Iphone geeks need somewhere to go to school. UH Hilo should at least have some of the best summer programs at premium pricing for students from other schools to attend (Math,chem, physics majors from big time schools like MIT or Harvard that want to attend a summer program here!)
In addition work with the UH Manoa med school and every specialty (docs, RT's, PA, etc) graduating needs to have done a 1-2 month rotation here so they have the opportunity to practice rural medicine.
Thats it for this AM! Happy Easter everyone!