Annjulie Vai
In my opinion:
I think that there is so much that our local government and county agencies could do to help improve Maui and the state of our economy.
First of all we should all have tax incentives in some form to get motivated to plant food crops in our yards, and on our properties….even just your small ¼ acre lot you can have huge amounts of food crops that do not take much effort to grow. What if a natural disaster occurs and the runway and the harbor are damaged? We have about 2-7 days of food supply here. We are an island and we need to get more dependent on ourselves and on our neighbors for food especially. If we had a tax break not only would this give us incentive but also provide food sources in the event of a disaster….this is a no brainer and people need to wake up!!!
Also to me like parking lots and roadsides should all be planted with food trees like avocado, mangoes, papaya, banana, ulu,…..and so forth. Oh the mess to clean up??? Are you fricken kidding me??? This is another county job for people to go and care for the trees, harvest the trees and then either sell it or distribute it to the jail, food bank, homeless etcetera…I mean get a brain is what I want to say to people like all the politicians and the donkeys running the show here.
By doing these kinds of small steps we could become more sustainable and solid ourselves instead of importing 95% of our food sources from elsewhere. The motto should be “Shade = food” and start planting.
Another thing to stimulate the economy here and help clean up the island would be to have programs subsidized by the government to help go clean-up invasive species and problem areas like the dead wattle trees upcountry. Have the prisoners be able to go out and work in these zones and in turn they can feel good about themselves as well as be part of the bigger solution instead of the problem. Give them some pride and it is healing to go touch nature and earth and make amends with community and planet.
Anyway I have many ideas….maybe I should become a politician??? Try to create these kinds of concepts within the government sector???? It makes perfect sense to me!!!!
Mahalo,
Annjulie
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