What does ‘buy local’ mean to the people of Hawai’i?
BLOGGING FROM THE FIELD July 28, 2011 MIT undergrad and Public Service Intern Cydnie Trice is developing a marketing plan for the Hawai’i Alliance for a Local Economy this summer. For the past couple weeks, I’ve been surveying at local grocery stores and farmers markets around the island. We designed a survey for consumers aimed [...]
Think Local First: A campaign to help local Hawaiian businesses
BLOGGING FROM THE FIELD In this post, MIT undergraduate Cydnie Trice introduces a four-part series on the challenges of building a local economy in Hawai’i. Trice is a marketing intern for the Hawai’i Alliance for a Local Economy this summer. June 21, 2011: Building the Local Economy, Hawaii Style First, lets start with a short [...]
A sustainable agricultural village in Hawaii
Public Service Intern Anne Emig (G, Course 4) worked in North Kohala, HI on North Kohala’s Sustainable Agricultural Village. Working with the Kohala Center, an independent non-profit research institute, the project focused on examining Hawai’i’s existing land use zoning in an attempt to identify the current impediments to developing clustered agricultural villages in existing agricultural [...]
