Lots of turmoil in the financial world today.

It’s a good time to think about how lucky we are to live here on the Big Island, where we have so many natural resources. We have lots of sun and water for growing food. We also have abundant sunshine, wind, ocean energy and geothermal to generate power. We have excellent education resources here and the opportunity to enhance them by bringing the Thirty-Meter Telescope here.

If we work together we can have superior food security, superior education and superior energy security. We need to cooperate with each other to work toward the best that we can be.