substituting Hawaii imports while reducing our footprint

Written by Ken
08/23/2008
…More on resurging interest in development strategies for “import substitution”…prompted by comments on my previous post. Note that the same Hawaii imports that rank right up there as ‘substitution’ candidates–energy, transport and food– also loom largest in our ecological footprint. And yup, Hawaii could ‘resurrect’ these substitutes, since it once actually did feed itself (fish, poi, rice), [...] Read more...