Let's Build Gonave, Haiti!

With the Focus City concept I had talked about how that would work, the players involved, and how it will impact La Gonave. I mentioned that manufacturing is important and even a small manufacturer would be needed in the Focus City to help echo a strong movement of investment on La Gonave.  This is why it is important for the mayor of Anse-a-Galets to help create and establish an industrial park. Now not just your typical industrial park, but one that is innovative.  My proposal is a small technology park of around 10 acres.  One acre would be set aside for a business incubator building, which would help create new technology ideas which could then build the next new company.  A couple of speculative buildings would be built to help ease the process for new firms to locate into the park.  Our idea would be a 10,000 sq. ft and a 15,000 sq. ft speculative buildings.  Also just outside of the park would be a biomass/fuel power plant.  While the po...

I have mentioned all three names in many of the blogs that are on this site.  Let's start with La Gonave.  This is home base for Let's Build La Gonave, Haiti, it is the focus area of Hurko Co..  It is the island that is forgotten, well almost!  Then you have Vetiver Grass. Did you know that Haiti is the number one producer of Vetiver Grass?  It produces 50% of the worlds vetiver, and it is even used to make perfume.  Not only is the grass great for water retention, reducing soil erosion, but it makes good fodder for livestock, and it can be a replacement for charcoal.  That's right, in Haiti's backyard is a product that could easily substitute trees and not only does it grow back every year, it is cleaner to burn than charcoal.  It can be made into pellets, or left in it's original form.  Either way the product can be used to power a Biomass power plant. So what does Let's Build La Gonave, Haiti have to do with this.  Well we feel t...