Our Mission

Mission

Hulihia is on a mission to change the current trajectory of the structural systems keeping us on a degenerative path and "flip the system" to support regenerative systems that perpetuate ʻāina wellbeing, social equity, and economic stability.

We plan to:

• Have an established centralization of credible and valuable sustainability expertise and technology to engage with sustainable systems management

• Use collaborative learning and community decisions rooted in indigenous knowledge to achieve a perpetual equilibrium between natural resource use, human prosperity, and well-being

• Be connected in a global network as a model of a systems-driven center of collaborative learning and decision-making for community sustainability. 

Our Understandings: 

• Maui can serve as a model to demonstrate how to make a change in world-class sustainability 

• Restore hope in the community that we can make an impact, people need to know that we are going to make an impact

• Build capacity for intergenerational and transdisciplinary understanding 

• Sustainability and 'ike kupuna is an expertise and there is interrelatedness between resources and issues