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Rural System? Just Dreaming …
A For-Profit Conglomerate for
Meaningful Jobs
Healthful Communities
and Improved Natural Resource Management ©
by Robert H. Giles, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
2007
The Elevator Speech
Hi. How' ya doin'? What are you up to these days?
I'm trying to start a for-profit corporation called Rural System. It unifies about 70 small rural- and natural-resource-related businesses. It manages land and water, and provides services, products, and other benefits. It offers new employment and a community tax base. It's a system using computers and the Internet in the business end of the work, and with their big payoffs being in planning, decision-making, and in gaining efficiencies from using our computer maps and satellite data. It provides comprehensive services for using and developing land for sustained annual profits for the long run. I'm planning it for a worldwide franchise to meet growing environmental and human needs.
Keep on dreaming! I get off at this floor.
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