Stories of ThinkTech

HAWAII'S FOOD FUTURE No one can say that we are prepared for a supply line food shortage here.  If the supply line fails or slows, we are all in deep kim chee, and I don't mean pickled cabbage.  More like we are all going to get very hungry. Pretty much all our food is from the mainland, and has to be shipped in.  If you think about it this is actually pretty scary.  That's why we've been talking about diversified agriculture for so many years, but sorry we've done little or nothing to actually do something about it. The great plantations of yesteryear, which could have been the foundation of a huge diversified agricultural industry, lie fallow, many of them in land bank status waiting for housing developments, condos of courses.   They will make much more money per acre.  Sad that the owners of the plantations have given up and really don't do anything to diversify.  Everyone knows that the cost of farmland is too expensive for small farms and diversified agric

  WE CARE ABOUT UKRAINE We've been following it the events in Ukraine since February, and we've done more than 50 shows about it, many with Ukrainians in Ukraine and other places in Europe and for that matter in Hawaii.  See our Crisis in Ukraine playlist on YouTube.  Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQpkwcNJny6mECZhmqMtAK-a4RpC7gvsj We care about Ukraine.  Let us count the ways, and why.  The people; their remarkable courage, resourcefulness, strength, modesty and determination, as demonstrated every day of this war; their culture, art, architecture and history. which Putin is trying to stamp out; their sense of identity and togetherness even in the face of this incredible and devastating adversity. How can we help them.  Well, we can help them when they come here, and show aloha for them, as we covered in a show on 4/20.  See https://youtu.be/4y9DvNo59VY.  We can send them money through a number of refugee and humanitarian nonprofits, just look them

HERE COME THE ELECTIONS! This is absolutely 2022, an election year.  We have both local and national elections in November, and we need to get ready for them. That is, we need to know who the candidates are and what their issues and platforms are, both local and national.  It's our duty, more important now than ever, to be good citizens, to educate ourselves about what and who we are voting for, and of course to actually vote. ThinkTech is on board for the elections this year.  Our hosts are already interviewing various candidates in various races on various issues to help us get educated and ready to exercise our right to vote in the elections.  We've created a special playlist on our YouTube channel (youtube.com/thinktechhawaii) with the talk shows we are doing for the election. Here's the link to that playlist.     https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQpkwcNJny6msgyCYbj_CsBMoLF7fuWdd And you can also sign up to get our daily email advisories and see our calendar of sh

2022 SPRING FUND DRIVE BEGINS Time for our Spring Fund Drive.   We’ll be sending our lots of HTML mail and putting lots of notices on our website and social media platforms.   We’ll also be playing a variety of fund drive videos. If you want to see them all at one time, check out our 2021 Fund Drive playlist . The Fund Drive dates are from 4/15 to the end of May, but you can of course donate before and even a few days after and we’ll still give you credit in our public thank you notes.   And we’ll greatly appreciate you and be deeply grateful for your contribution to our efforts and to help us continue our work for the community. So stand by for our Drive, it’s coming in only a few days and we hope, hope, hope that you will make a donation, as much as you can, to help us continue our efforts to bring clarity to a very uncertain world and actually a world that is growing more and more uncertain as we watch.   As you can imagine, it’s very important to us. Clearly, these days, we must al