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When H?k?ao Pellegrino was growing up in the ahupua‘a of Waikap? on Maui, he often played on an overgrown piece of family land, building clubhouses in the…

The Moanalua Gardens is devoted to preserving the native culture and environment of Hawai?i through education and cultural practice. They offer a range of…

Malia Akutagawa was born into the aloha ‘?ina movement: As a child in the 1970s, she watched her uncles and aunties advocating for the ‘?ina—fighting to…

Most of us are at least partially aware of the benefits that the forest provides for us, but the depth of the relationship between our society and the…

In March of 1959 huge headlines across the Islands carried the news: Statehood! Five months later, on August 21, the United States declared Hawai‘i its…

When Hi‘ilei Kawelo thinks about Hawaiian loko i‘a or fishponds, she marvels at the innovation that her k?puna brought to their relationship with the sea.…

Today there is a movement to restore many of the Hawaiian loko i?a or fishponds that could once be found across the Islands, says Hi?ilei Kawelo,…

The brothers who succeeded Kauikeaouli as sovereigns—Alexander Liholiho and Lota Kapu?iwa—were the first of Hawai‘i’s kings to be fully educated in the…

Prized for its beautiful wood product, koa is one of the most valuable woods on the planet. Restoring koa forests is a profitable practice. Economics, in…

Stacy Sproat-Beck grew up on the north shore of Kaua?i in a family that farmed and fished—she was literally raised by the land and sea around her and that…