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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
Vision
The success of Rural System in improving the social, economic, and environmental health and well-being of the people of the region allows the enterprise to become more effective and to offer franchises. It becomes a nation-wide and international corporation having more groups than proposed in 2007. Thus its influences are transferred throughout nearby regions of western Virginia, USA, but progressively worldwide via its e-Catalog. It pays off start-up loans at the end of six years and becomes financially secure and philanthropic. It expands in size and effectiveness in improving the social, economic, and environmental health of the rural component of Virginia, then other regions. Rural in concept and focus, it has no boundaries. Several centers of activity (franchises) develop in the U.S. and rural areas of the world. It becomes increasingly profitable for its clients, investors, and staff in relation to increased productivity and profitability of the lands, waters, and other natural resources of its affected regions. Significant loss/cost/crisis reductions occur. The work of the diverse conglomerate becomes recognized as providing a major paradigm in sophisticated rural land and resource management and, as such, becomes the basis for a highly profitable business conglomerate operating well past this century, given its special 150-year planning horizon.
It outraces Cooperative Extension and a host of diverse natural resource agencies and foundations to the top of sophisticated, computer aided rural and natural resource decision making and management. The incentives become clear for global investors. It becomes the essential medium for global integration of these agency's and enterprise's roles for they are now in wasteful conflict, destroy or neuter each other, and the people of the world suffer. Rural System can do much better.
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