Environmental Innovation Local Implementation

There is so much to say about this and I do a lot of it in other postings. But the common link with my economic development program is always linking with HSU. If we develop the school develops. Arcata does not want just any industry or business in its city limits. We want socially responsible businesses. I will concentrate on our niche, which has been ignored way too long.

The niche is the environment every which way. We have HSU with its brain trust of environmental, forestry, oceanography and fuel cell programs at our doorstep. We need to turn Arcata into the hub of all forward thinking ideas on the environment. Like Stanford is to Silicon Valley, why not HSU to environmental innovations.

The conferences will be here, the think tanks will be here, the environmental entrepeneurs will be here. Innovation then implementation. Imagine: people from around the world will come here to learn about environmental innovations and see first hand how entrepeneurs make those innovations work. Vegas is known for gambling, San Francisco for tourism, and LA for celluloid. Arcata will be known worldwide for cutting edge environmental innovation. That would be a proud and prosperous time.