About Us

HULI.HIA. PAS/IMP. OF HULI 1, 2; OVERTURNED; A COMPLETE CHANGE, OVERTHROW; TURNED UPSIDE DOWN

Hulihia, meaning complete change, is a center focused on solving community issues and developing sustainability modeling from community insights rooted in indigenous knowledge and driven by sustainability expertise. 

Why Hulihia? 


While there have been many initiatives on Maui in support of sustainability, we seek to unify these efforts to change the paradigm. Systems-based practices in sustainability science provide new opportunities to avoid unforeseen consequences and build resiliency for our community. Understanding and addressing the problem rather than treating the symptoms will require a complete change in traditional methods of thinking. It's time for hulihia. 


What do we offer? 


We strive to be the centralized location for sustainability in Maui. In order to achieve this, Hulihia works with individual community members, decision-makers, and other stakeholders at all levels in order to maximize our current sustainability efforts as well as catalyze new initiatives. We provide unique resources to the Maui community so that our goals can be achieved concurrently. 

Huliha defines sustainability as:

A dynamic balance that can only be achieved by ensuring that all human and natural systems that support life are self-regulating and regenerative to meet the population's needs without producing irreversible adverse effects on the resources that make up these systems.