After all, once people got into town, they could walk to almost every establishment in sight, so the secret was. Their best agents were actually other members of the big island who ran lodging, food, and commercial establishments. They would be the ultimate advertisers, people who spoke to the visitors everyday. The identity of Kohala grew. Its progress was chronicled by the rich array of writing talent now collecting in this charming community.
Intellectual capital is something any place needs if they want to influence outside decision-makers.
Kohala could muster a powerful collective voice by teaming it's writing talent up to flood the island papers with content. On any given issue they could muster three times the exposure that the power company or county government could. Kohala had intellectual capital and they worked as a team. Click on map for a detailed excursion into the social inventions imagined for regional Hawaii in the year 2020. Then a futuristic map that contained solutions applicable to all other bioregions of a similar character was published island-wide.