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RESOLUTION NO. 692 20
A RESOLUTION ADOPTING AND SUPPORTING THE `AINA ALOHA ECONOMIC
FUTURES INITIATIVE FOR THE COUNTY OF HAWAII.
WHEREAS, the present fiscal, environmental, social, and health care crises present a
rare opportunity to effect lasting structural change toward a stronger and more sustainable
Hawai`i; and
WHEREAS, a group of Native Hawaiian community leaders came together to have their
collective voices, values, and experiences influence the economic recovery, and have developed
a four-step process for pono action under the `Aina Aloha Economic Futures (AAEF) initiative,
which is available for review online at ainaalohafutures.com; and
WHEREAS, `Aina Aloha is a guiding principle that states: "We are of and from this
`aina that ultimately sustains us. We employ strategies for economic development that place our
kuleana to steward precious, limited resources in a manner that ensures our long-term horizon as
a viable island people and place"; and
WHEREAS, Step one is to declare core values as enumerated in the `Aina Aloha
Economic Futures Declaration (Exhibit A); and
WHEREAS, Step two is to set an action agenda, such as that provided in the Huliau
Action Agenda (Exhibit B);
WHEREAS, Step three is to develop proposals and assess them against the AAEF self-
assessment tool (Exhibit C); and
WHEREAS, Step four is to move forward by building coalitions with other entities
advancing similar proposals, providing the rubric to decision makers, businesses, organizations,
and community members, and together take action to achieve the changes in an economic future
grounded in `Aina Aloha; and
WHEREAS, `Opu Ali`i is a guiding principle that states: "Our leaders understand that
their privilege to lead is directly dependent on those they serve. From the most vulnerable to the
most privileged, we seek to regenerate an abundance that provides for everyone. Decision
makers understand and embrace their duty and accountability to Community. Our social,
economic and government systems engage and respond to a collective voice in integrative ways
to balance power and benefit"; and
WHEREAS, `Imi 'Oi Kelakela is a guiding principle that states: "We are driven by
creativity and innovation, constantly challenging the status quo. We are mindful and observant of
needs, trends and opportunities and seek new knowledge and development opportunities in ways
that enhance our way of life without jeopardizing our foundation of`aina aloha"; and
WHEREAS, Ho`okipa is a guiding principle that states: "We are inclusive and embrace
the collective that will call Hawai`i home, grounded in the fundamental understanding that it is
our kuleana to control and manage our resources in a way that allows us to fulfill our role as
hosts here in our `aina aloha"; and
WHEREAS, these guiding principles are in line with the Preamble of the Constitution of
the State of Hawai`i: "We reaffirm our belief in a government of the people, by the people and
for the people"; and Article I, Section 1 of the State Constitution which declares: "All political
power of this State is inherent in the people and the responsibility for the exercise thereof rests
with the people. All government is founded on this authority"; and
WHEREAS, these guiding principles are also in line with Article XIII, Section 13-29 of
the Hawaii County Charter (2018),: "For the benefit of present and future generations, the
county shall conserve and protect Hawai`i's natural beauty and all natural and cultural resources,
including but not limited to land, water, air, minerals, energy sources, wahi pana, surf spots,
historic sites, and historic structures, and shall promote the development and utilization of these
resources in a manner consistent with their conservation and in furtherance of the self-
sufficiency of the county. All public natural and cultural resources are held in trust by the county
for the benefit of the people"; now, therefore,
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BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII that on
behalf of the County it joins the signatories of the `Aina Aloha Economic Futures initiative,
adopts its guiding principles, and encourages widespread use of the four-step process by
individuals, businesses, and organizations throughout the State.
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the County Clerk shall transmit a copy of this
resolution to Alan M. Oshima, Hawai`i Economic and Community Recovery and Resiliency
Navigator, the Honorable Harry Kim, Mayor, and Diane Ley, Director of the Department of
Research and Development.
Dated at , Hawai`i, this day of , 20 .
INT ODUCED BY:
COUNCIL MEMBER COUNTY OF HAWAII
COQ ME , COQ _Y OF HA \ A I`I
COUNTY COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE
County of Hawai`i AYES NOES ABS EX
Hilo, Hawai`i CHUNG
DAVID
I hereby certify that the foregoing RESOLUTION was by EOFF
the vote indicated to the right hereof adopted by the COUNCIL of the KANEALI`I-KLEINFELDER
County of Hawai`i on
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Reference: C-1011/GREDC
COUNTY CLERK CHAIRPERSON & PRESIDING OFFICER RESOLUTION NO. 692 20
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Exhibit A
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This declaration was drafted by a group of Native Hawaiian community members who came
together organically after separate discussions brought forth common sentiments regarding
the need to have Native Hawaiian voices, values, and experiences influence the economic
recovery for our '5ina aloha. The signatories listed reflect the interconnected and
overlapping roles that individuals, 'ohana, organizations, coalitions, and networks play in our
communities. This declaration served as a starting point to facilitate broader engagement
and collective action in support of our shared principles and was sent to Gov. David Ige on
5/19/2020.
A Call for Unit
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Every crisis opens a course to opportunity. Some of the world's greatest accomplishments
were born from adversity by those who were inherently equipped with vision and resolve.
The COVID-19 pandemic will leave a saga of sorrow, loss and frustration with an equal and
overwhelming amount of sacrifice, heroism and victory. This "new normal" has thrust us into
what our kOpuna Hawaii would call a huliau, or a turning point and time of change, for all of
us who call Hawaii home.
While we are reeling from this visceral reminder of how vulnerable we are to external
impacts on our '5ina aloha, or beloved homeland, our history as a resilient people is
undeniable. The Native Hawaiian community in particular is one that for centuries has
fought to overcome obstacles that all of us here in Hawaii are now faced with. Whether
rebounding from infectious disease that decimated our population or successfully
advocating for equitable remedies from government systems, these challenges are today
ones that we confront as a collective.
Now perhaps more than ever, the ancestral values that guided us through these challenges
and numerous others provide a pivotal leverage point for all of us as we set a course
towards a stronger, sustainable Hawaii and seize this opportunity for huliau.
Guiding Principles:
• `Aina Aloha: We are of and from this '5ina that ultimately sustains us. We employ
strategies for economic development that place our kuleana to steward precious, limited
resources in a manner that ensures our long-term horizon as a viable island people and
place.
• `Opu Alii: Our leaders understand that their privilege to lead is directly dependent on
those they serve. From the most vulnerable to the most privileged, we seek to regenerate
an abundance that provides for everyone. Decision makers understand and embrace their
duty and accountability to Community. Our social, economic and government systems
engage and respond to a collective voice in integrative ways to balance power and benefit.
• `Imi `Oi Kelakela: We are driven by creativity and innovation, constantly challenging the
status quo. We are mindful and observant of needs, trends and opportunities and seek
new knowledge and development opportunities in ways that enhance our way of life
without jeopardizing our foundation of `aina aloha.
• Ho`okipa: We are inclusive and embrace the collective that will call Hawaii home,
grounded in the fundamental understanding that it is our kuleana to control and manage
our resources in a way that allows us to fulfill our role as hosts here in our `aina aloha.
Future Directions
These principles will calibrate our course not only to recovery but rediscovery of our
potential as a unique people and place. Over the past five decades, we have seen local,
national and international models of social, educational, agricultural and economic resiliency
emerge from our Hawaiian community. This is due in no small part to a grounding in these
foundational values. We have been here for millennia and will be for many more. There is
nowhere else we could or would choose to be. We are committed to this kuleana of `aina
aloha and ensuring the sustainability of this place and those who choose to make it home.
As we seek to engage at decision making tables, adding value and insight to Hawai`i's
economic path forward post COVID-19, we implore and invite you to support and engage
with us. From healthcare, education and digital innovation to food security, tourism, and
affordable housing strategies, we are makaukau for this imminent huliau!
Collaborative Authors u
Amy Kalili Keoni Lee
Davis Price Lanakila Mangauil
Ikaika Hussey Mahinapoepoe Paishon-Duarte
Joseph Lapilio Na`alehu Anthony
Kalani Ka`ana`ana Noe Noe Wong-Wilson, Ph.D.
Kamana Beamer, Ph.D. Ryan Gonzalez
Kehaunani Abad, Ph.D. Ulalia Woodside
07 This declaration was drafted by a group of Native Hawaiian community members who came together organically
after separate discussions brought forth common sentiments regarding the need to have Native Hawaiian voices,
values, and experiences influence the economic recovery for our`aina aloha. The signatories listed reflect the
interconnected and overlapping roles that individuals, `ohana, organizations, coalitions, and networks play in our
communities. This working document serves as a starting point to facilitate broader engagement and collective action
in support of our shared principles.
Exhibit B
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Huliau Action Agenda
In this time of hulihia, where long-standing systems are overturned and our vulnerabilities are
laid bare, we have a rare opportunity to shift mindsets and forward plans for a stronger and more
sustainable Hawaii founded on `aina aloha—a deep and abiding love for Hawai`i's communities
and natural environments. Central to this effort is the ability of our community to determine the
direction of our huliau, our turning point towards positive transformation.
Below is a high-level framework of community-defined actionable goals intended to guide the
development and prioritization of more specific proposals:
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We affirm that Native Hawaiian culture and perspectives are strengths in
rebuilding a resilient Hawai`i, and we seek to:
1. Place as a top priority the well-being of our `aina, water sources, oceans, skies, and the
biodiversity integral to these, recognizing the long held understanding that the `aina is our
ali`i, and we are its servants.
2. Exercise the traditional and cultural rights of`Oiwi Hawai`i and place `ike kupuna as a
foundation upon which we determine our actions.
1 We are of and from this`aina that ultimately sustains us.We employ strategies for economic development that place our kuleana to steward
precious,limited resources in a manner that ensures our long-term horizon as a viable island people and place.
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3. Empower in decision making circles those whose life work embodies the wisdom of the
first and highly successful stewards of Hawaii, especially when such decisions affect our
natural environment and the cultural practices that take place in its embrace.
4. Assert collective kuleana to restore degraded environments, sustainably manage human-
occupied spaces, and protect the vibrancy of intact ecosystems.
5. Recognize, as is occurring worldwide, that Indigenous perspectives, insights, and
genealogical connections to place are essential to ensuring environmental vibrancy and
community cohesion.
6. Address historical and current injustices against `Oiwi Hawaii, including water rights
and issues related to historical hoa`aina or land tenant rights.
7. Honor the fact that `Oiwi Hawaii are a living, evolving people whose well-being is
central to Hawai`i's continued vitality and that collective well-being is intrinsically tied
to the health and well-being of our `aina.
8. Recognize that climate change is creating a future with new challenges and difficulties,
requiring the development of solutions grounded in principles of resiliency,
sustainability, and the Hawaiian concept of`aina aloha, or beloved homeland.
We embrace inclusivity as a foundational aspect of our culture in Hawai`i to:
1. Honor the roles of `oiwi, kama`aina, and newer residents alike, who have demonstrated
our deep aloha for Hawaii and its communities by fulfilling our kuleana of being strong
contributors to Hawai`i's vitality for our communities today and for the generations to
come.
2. Advance economic equity as well as social and political justice for all.
3. Support Hawaii stakeholders who embody the values of`aina aloha to be heard in
discussions determining the future of Hawaii.
4. Facilitate opportunities for those who may not yet have become integrated into Hawai`i's
cultural milieu to experience and support the values of`aina aloha.
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We apply innovation and creativity to support the well-being of our islands and
communities. We share principles, perspectives, and knowledge inherited from
past generations of Hawai`i that are useful to guide us into the future. We cannot
depend on an economy that is unsustainable and degrades our natural and social
environments. Instead, we will:
1. Create a strong, self-sustaining economy in Hawaii that:
a. Is resilient to worldwide economic downturns,
b. Embodies `aina aloha,
c. Rejects notions of consumerism and materialism to improve household viability and
long-term environmental sustainability,
d. Strengthens our environments including, but not limited to, our reefs, oceans, streams,
forests, air, soil, and endangered species so they are resilient to climate change,
e. Restores `aina that has been environmentally degraded by historic misuse and neglect,
f. Utilizes natural climate solutions,
g. Creates clean renewable energy,
h. Ensures our ability to be sustained by fertile lands and seas realized in increased local
food production and food independence.
i. Promotes leadership and innovation to increase energy and food sustainability.
j. Seeks out successful models from around the world that can be applied in Hawai`i.
2. Develop a circular economy as part of established global efforts to:
a. Decouple economic growth from environmental degradation,
b. Engage regenerative practices that design out waste,
c. Provide for meaningful work and livable wages, and
d. End the practices in the current economic system that have given rise to vast social and
economic inequity.
2 We are driven by creativity and innovation,constantly challenging the status quo.We are mindful and observant of needs,trends and
opportunities and seek new knowledge and development opportunities in ways that enhance our way of life without jeopardizing our foundation
of`aina aloha.
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3. Establish a housing market that prioritizes resident access to affordable homes and
eliminate the incentives and structural barriers that place and price homes out of their
reach.
4. Invest in our youth, and those ready to expand their skills, to build their capacity to care for
our islands and work towards community and environmental resilience.
5. Cultivate partnerships with communities, the business sector, and the military aimed at
nurturing the well-being of our islands and its people by restoring previously degraded
environments and eliminating practices that would inflict further damage.
6. Facilitate alternative energy projects that are planned with collaborating communities and
that engender strong community support in the localities where they would be
implemented.
7. Engage technologies to improve access to healthcare, education, and government services,
and enable a tele-workforce resulting in reduced traffic and carbon emissions and a better
work-life balance for the tele-workforce.
8. Measure the success of decisions, policies, programs, etc. by the health and well-being of
natural environments and communities that are impacted by them.
Ho'okipa
We recognize that ho'okipa (hospitality) requires that the mea ho'okipa (host) have
access to adequate space, place, and resource to truly fulfill the role and function of
ho'okipa. For the fullness of this reciprocal relationship between mea ho'okipa
and malihini (visitor) to be realized we must:
1. Ensure that we as a local community have the means to fulfill our kuleana to our `aina and
each other before fully assuming the kuleana of mea ho`okipa.
2. Hold malihini accountable within the reciprocal nature of the relationship established once
they are here with us in Hawai`i. "Ho`okahi wale no la o ka malihini" expresses the
3 We are inclusive and embrace the collective that will call Hawaii home,grounded in the fundamental understanding that it is our kuleana to
control and manage our resources in a way that allows us to fulfill our roles here in our`aina aloha.
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fundamental concept that a visitor is "a stranger for only a day." After the first day, the
malihini becomes a hoa kama`aina or familiar friend and should quickly assume a kuleana
(responsibility) to Hawai`i's people and place.
To achieve the above, we envision a regenerative visitor economy that:
1. Forms community partnerships to ensure Native Hawaiian cultural integrity by:
a. Supporting Hawai`i's people and communities and their efforts to ma-lama `aina (care
for the land) and the cultural and natural resources of the `aina, oceans, streams, and
skies.
b. Strengthening relationships between people and place, kama`aina and malihini alike.
c. Engaging in collaborative efforts that provide visitors with genuine and meaningful
experiences in Hawai`i.
d. Ensuring that kapu and environmentally sensitive contexts are protected from visitor
traffic.
e. Positioning local business owners and entrepreneurs in the economic value chain to
ensure more meaningful malihini-kama`aina engagement as well as economic benefit
to local communities.
f. Acknowledging and, where appropriate, protecting Hawaiian cultural intellectual
property, traditional knowledge, and traditional cultural expressions that contribute to
Hawai`i's economy.
2. Employs Hawai`i residents and commits to building their capacity and offering them career
ladders to ultimately increase the percentage of Hawai`i residents in management and
leadership positions in the industry.
3. Applies innovative financial, policy, as well as data collection and analysis mechanisms to
incentivize and facilitate a shift to a regenerative visitor industry that has a smaller
footprint (e.g., decreasing impacts to beaches, reefs, and ocean life) and that aims to sustain
and improve the quality of life for Hawaii residents (e.g., decreasing impacts of vacation
rentals/B&Bs and rental cars).
4. Targets markets that have a high probability of alignment with the goal of cultivating a
regenerative visitor industry.
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5. Actively supports and encourages other emerging economic sectors to reduce the
dependence on tourism to support Hawai`i's overall economic prosperity.
'OpuAli'i4
We believe that government, business, and community leaders should strive to
create healthy and safe communities, engaging in work that:
1. Supports `ohana and communities engaging in traditional Hawaiian cultural practices,
including subsistence, gathering, and family farming.
2. Provides access to beaches, forest areas, and other public lands for subsistence, gathering,
cultural practices, and recreation, as mandated under the Hawai`i State Constitution.
3. Establishes or maintains safe and accessible parks and community gathering spaces.
4. Commits to and grows a regenerative, circular, and zero waste economy to preserve
Hawai`i's natural environment and ensure a clean sustainable future for generations to
come.
5. Safeguards gender equity, race equity, and women's, children's, and LGBTQ rights that
are honored in policies and everyday practices across our society.
6. Protects the community from sex-trafficking, prostitution, abusive labor practices, and
other similar injustices.
7. Establishes living equitable wages and a healthy work-life balance.
8. Strives for a relatively stable cost of living in Hawaii.
9. Provides comprehensive quality universal health care, which includes mental health and
substance abuse support.
10. Forwards policies that ensure safe workplaces with flexible work hours and
telecommuting options.
11. Nurtures communities where essential health and safety professionals are integral, trusted
members of the communities they serve.
4 Our leaders understand that their privilege to lead is directly dependent on those they serve.From the most vulnerable to the most privileged,
we seek to regenerate an abundance that provides for everyone.Decision makers understand and embrace their duty and accountability to
Community.Our social,economic and government systems engage and respond to a collective voice in integrative ways to balance power and
benefit.
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12. Designs and funds clean, reliable, user-friendly, community-supported, and affordable
public transportation.
13. Develops supports that foster `ohana well-being (e.g., longer paid maternity and paternity
leave, programs that nurture strong and engaged parenting, anger management training,
and access to affordable child and senior care centers).
14. Provides access to culturally appropriate conflict resolution supports for `ohana and
communities.
15. Supports locally grown and sourced fresh food systems, including key cultural crops
associated with Hawai`i's multicultural communities.
16. Ensures quality universal education from preschool through higher education that
nurtures confident, competent, and caring individuals who are connected to their
communities and are inspired and enabled to contribute to Hawai`i's well-being.
17. Provides full support for renormalizing throughout the community the use of`olelo
Hawai`i, one of two official state languages.
18. Establishes equitable access to technology and broadband connectivity for work,
education, and communication.
19. Creates reasonably priced housing in safe neighborhoods.
20. Adopts reasonable Hawaii resident taxes on home properties and ancestral `ohana lands.
21. Adopts new policies and taxes (e.g., restrictions on non-resident purchases of real estate,
significant capital gains taxes on short term gains from speculative real estate sales) that
eliminate opportunities or incentives for investors to purchase property in Hawai`i and
inflate real estate costs for others.
22. Ensures that natural environments and communities are free from the impacts of harmful
industrial electromagnetic fields, effluents, odors, sounds, and other forms of pollution.
We seek strong, compassionate, and educated leaders who:
1. Pass laws and ordinances that protect the `aina, oceans, waterways, forests, and native
species the full breadth of our finite, irreplaceable natural environments.
2. Listen to and support the will of our communities, the people they represent.
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3. Are committed to ensuring a positive future for our islands and communities by working
selflessly alongside other similarly dedicated and focused business and community
leaders.
4. Are knowledgeable about the inherent and legal rights of Native Hawaiians, the original
inhabitants of these islands, and are committed to ensuring the full implementation of
these rights that are codified in State and federal laws:
a. The Public Land Trust, of which 20 percent of its revenues should be
appropriately calculated and directed to the betterment of Native Hawaiians, and
b. The Hawaiian Homelands homestead program, which must be appropriately
funded and managed to provide its native Hawaiian beneficiaries residential,
agricultural, or pastoral homesteads.
5. Investigate alternate economic paradigms, currencies, and measures of success that are
tied to environmental and community well-being.
6. Work to balance the need for small agricultural entities to have affordable access to land
and water and the need to foster healthy stream flows and ecosystems connected to those
streams.
7. Honor community voices in developing carrying capacities and limitations for industries
and sensitive environmental, historic, and cultural contexts.
8. Generate and implement fresh, innovative approaches and systems to achieve economic
and food self-reliance.
9. Provide a framework of environmental policies, including tax incentives, grants, and
other supports that enable agri-businesses and small farms to remain economically viable
while being good land stewards that minimize negative environmental impacts (e.g.,
waste and effluent discharge) and that improve the long-term fertility of the lands under
their care (e.g., syntropic, permaculture, and organic farming, composting, and soil
development).
10. Develop energy and waste policies and systems (e.g., buy-back agreements where utility
companies compensate households and communities that generate energy) to directly
facilitate increased self-reliance for households and communities (i.e., the European
model).
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11. Create incentives (e.g., tax breaks or credits and affordable credit and capital) and
supports (e.g., assistance with transportation, distribution, and marketing systems) for
small businesses, cottage and creative industries, and other community entities that are
locally-owned and are regenerative and not extractive.
12. Ensure that economic gains accrued by large industries operating in Hawai`i are not
exported out of Hawaii but positively impact locally owned businesses and communities.
13. Balance Hawai`i's economic foundation across various income contribution sectors to
avoid an over reliance on any one area.
14. Support Native Hawaiians' self-determination.
The framework of goals articulated in this Huliau Action Agenda set the context
for a healthier, more cohesive, and sustainable Hawai`i guided by `Oiwi insights,
innovation, and community values. Together we stand committed to engaging the
urgent work needed to bring this vision to fruition.
Glossary
`aina aloha A deep and abiding love for Hawai`i's communities and natural
environments. We are of and from this `aina that ultimately sustains us.
We employ strategies for economic development that place our kuleana
to steward precious, limited resources in a manner that ensures our long-
term horizon as a viable island people and place.
`ai pono Healthy, nutritious foods
ali`i Chief, chiefess, officer, ruler, monarch, headman, noble, aristocrat, king,
queen, commander
hoa `aina Aboriginal, native tenants who held a suite of kuleana, including land
ownership rights that were ignored after the 1893 illegal overthrow of
the Hawaiian Kingdom
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ho`okipa Gracious hospitality. We are inclusive and embrace the collective that
will call Hawai`i home, grounded in the fundamental understanding that
it is our kuleana to control and manage our resources in a way that
allows us to fulfill our roles here in our `aina aloha.
huliau Turning point, time of change
hulihia Overturned; a complete change, overthrow; turned upside down
`ike kupuna Ancestral insights, knowledge, perspectives, practices, skills, senses
`imi `oi kelakela To seek the pinnacle of excellence. We are driven by creativity and
innovation, constantly challenging the status quo. We are mindful and
observant of needs, trends and opportunities and seek new knowledge
and development opportunities in ways that enhance our way of life
without jeopardizing our foundation of`aina aloha.
kama`aina Native-born, one born in a place, host
kapu A place, natural element, plant or animal, person, act, object, verbal
expression, or concept that is not open or free for all to engage in or
experience. It is sacred, restricted, and off-limits.
kuleana Responsibility, right, privilege, concern, title, business, property, estate,
portion,jurisdiction, authority, liability, interest, claim, ownership,
tenure, affair, province.
malihini A tourist or guest; one unfamiliar with a place or custom
mea ho`okipa A host or one who extends hospitality to another
`ohana Family, relative, kin group
`Oiwi Hawaii Aboriginal Hawaiians whose direct lineal ancestors were present in
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Hawaii in 1778
`olelo Hawai`i Hawaiian language
`opu ali`i Pono leadership in earlier times recognized the reciprocal relationship
between leaders and the people they serve. `Opu Alii highlights the
actions of leadership that are benevolent and create balance in society.
Our leaders understand that their privilege to lead is directly dependent
on those they serve. From the most vulnerable to the most privileged, we
seek to regenerate an abundance that provides for everyone. Decision
makers understand and embrace their duty and accountability to
Community. Our social, economic and government systems engage and
respond to a collective voice in integrative ways to balance power and
benefit.
pono Goodness, uprightness, morality, moral qualities, correct or proper
procedure, excellence, well-being, prosperity, welfare, benefit, behalf,
equity, sake, true condition or nature, duty; moral, fitting, proper,
righteous, right, upright,just, virtuous, fair, beneficial, successful, in
perfect order, accurate, correct, eased, relieved; should, ought, must,
necessary
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Huhau Action Agenda Alignment Assessment
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In this time of hulihia,where long-standing systems are overturned and our vulnerabilities are[aid bare,we have a rare opportunity to shift mindsets
and forward plans for a stronger and more sustainable Hawaii founded on'5ina aloha—a deep a ind abiding love for HawaiTs commu nities and natural enviro nme
Central to this effort is the ability of our Community to determine the direction of our h u liau,our turning point towards positive transformation,
Below is a high-level framework of community-defined actionable goals intended to guide the development and prioritization of more specific proposals.
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Aina Aloha
(Check all that apply)
We affirm that Native Hawailian culture and perspectives are strengths In rebuilding a resilient Hawaill,and we seek to:
0 Place as a top priority the wellt-bei ng of our* i na,water sources,oceans,skies,and the biodiversity iversity i ntegra I to these,recogn izi ng the long held
understanding that the'5 ina is our ali'i,and we are its servants.
El Exercise the traditional and cultural rights of'biwi H awa i'i and place'ike kOpuna as a foundation upon which ich we determine our actions.
0 Empower ire decision making circles those whose life work embodies the wisdom of the first and highly successful stewards of Hawaii especial ly
when such decisions affect our natural environment and the cultural practices that take place in its embrace.
0 Assert collective kuleana to restore degraded environments,sustainably manage human-occupied spaces,and protect the vibrancy of intact
ecosystems.
El Recognize,as is occurring worldwide,that Indigenous perspectives,insights,and genealogical connections to place are essential to ensuring
environmental vibrancy and community cohesion.
0 Address historical and current injustices against'Oiwi Hawaii,including water rights and issues related to h�istorical hoa'aina or land tenant rights.
0 Honor the fact that'(Diwi Hawaii are a living,evolving people whose well-being is central to Hawaili's continued vitality and that collective well-
being is intrinsically tied to the health and well-being of aur` ina.
0
recognize that climate change is creating a future with new challenges and difficulties,req u i ri ng the development of solutionsgrou nded in
principles of resiliency,susta i nabitity,and the Hawaiian concept of'aina aloha,or beloved homeland.
We embrace inclusivity as a foundational aspect of our culture in Hawaili to:
0 Honor the roles of'6iwi,kama'a-ina,and newer residents alike,who have demonstrated our deep aloha for Hawaii and its communities by fulfilling
our kuleana of being strong contributors to HawaiTs vitality for our communities today and for the generations to come.
Advance economic equity as well as social and political justice for all.
Support Hawaii stakeholders who embody the values of'5ina aloha to be heard in discussions determining the future of Hawai'i.
Facilitate opportunities for those who may not yet have become integrated into HawaiTscultu rat milieu to experience and support the values of
`�ina aloha.
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We apply innovation and creativity to support the well-being of our islands and communities.We shareprinciples,perspectives,,and
knowledge inherited fro�m past generations of Hawaii that are useful to guide,us into the future.We cannot depend on an economy that is
unsustainable and degrades our natural and social environments.Instead,we will:
0 Create a strong,self-sustaining economy in Hawaii that:
G Is resilient to worldwide economic downturns,
b Embodies'5ina aloha,
c Rejects notions of consumerism and materialism to improv household viability and long-term environmental sustain a bi lit ,
Strengthens our environments including,but not limited to,our reefs,oceans,streams,forests,air,soil,and endangered species so they are
resilient to climate change,
El e Restores`aina that has been environmentally degraded by historic misuse and neglect,
El f Utilizes natural climate solutions,
g Creates clean renewable energy,
h Ensures our ability to be sustained by fertile lands and seas realized in increased local foodproduction and food independence.
Promotes leadership and innovation to increase energy and food sustainability.
Seeks out successful models from around the world that can be applied in Hawaii.
0 Develop a circular economy as part of established global efforts to:
Decouple economic growth from environmental degradation,
b Engage regenerative practices that design out waste,
0 c Provide for meaningful work and livable wages,and
0 d End the practices in the current economic system that have given rise to vast social and economic inequity,
El Establish a housing market that prioritizes resident access to affordable homes and eliminate the incentives and structural barriers that place and
price homes out of their reach,
4 Invest in our youth,and those ready to expand their skips,to build their capacity to care for our islands and work towards community and
environmental resilience.
El Cultivate partnerships with communities,the business sector,and the military aimed at nurturing the well-being of our islands and itspeople by
restoring previously degraded environments and eliminating practices that would inflict further damage.
0 Facilitate alternative energy projects that are planned with collaborating communities and that engender strong community support in the
localities where they would be implemented.
Engage technologies to improve access to healthcare,education,and government services,and enable a tele-workforce resulting in reduced traffic
and carbon emissions and a better work-life balance for the tele-workforce.
Measure the success of decisions,policies,programs,etc.by the health and well-being of natural environments and communities that are impacted
by them,
Hookipa
(Check all that apply)
We recognize that ho'okipa(hospitality)requires that the mea holo kipa(host)have access to adequate space,p ,laceand resource to truly
fulfill the rote and function of ho'okipa.For the fullness of this reciprocal relationship between mea holokipa and malihini(visitor)to be
realized we must:
Ensure that we as a local community have the means to fulfill our kuleana to our'�ina and each other before fully assuming the kuleana of mea
ho'okipa.
Hold malihini accountable within the reciprocal nature of the relationship established once they are here with us in Hawaii."Ho'okahi wale n6 1a o
0 2 lea rnalihini expresses the fundamental concept that a visitor is 9ca stranger for only a day."After the first day,the malihini becomes a hoa kama'aina
or familiar friend and should quickly assume a kuleana(responsibility)to Hawaii's people and place.
To achieve the above,we envision a regenerative visitor economy that-,
0 1 Forms community partnerships to ensure Native Hawaiian cultural integrity by:
Supporting HawaiTs people and communities and their efforts to m5lama'5ina(care for the land)and the cultural and natural resources of the
`5ina,oceans,streams,and skies.
Strengthening relationships between people and place,kama'5ina and malihini alike.
0 Engaging in collaborative efforts that provide visitors with genuine and meaningful experiences in Haw i`
0 Ensuring that kapu and environmentally sensitive contexts are protected from visitor traffic.
Positioning local business owners and entrepreneurs in the economic value chain to ensure more meaningful malihini-karna'5ina engagement
well as economic benefit to local communities. as
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0 Acknowledging and,where appropriate,protecting Hawaiian cultural intellectual property,traditional knowledge,and traditional cultural
expressions that contribute to HawaiTs economy.
0 2 Employs Hawaii residents and commits to building their capacity and offering them career ladders to ultimately increase the percentage of Hawaii
residents in management and leadership positions in the industry.
Applies innovative financial,policy,as well as data collection and analysis mechanisms to incentivize and facilitate a shift to a regenerative visitor
0 industry that has a smaller footprint(e.g.,decreasing impacts to beaches,reefs,and ocean life)and that aims to sustain and improve the quality of
life for Hawaii residents(e.g.,decreasing impacts of vacation renta Is/B&Bs and rental cars).
0 4 Targets markets that have a high probability of alignment with the goal of cultivating a regenerative visitor industry.
Actively supports and encourages other emerging economic sectors to reduce the dependence on tourism to support HawaiTs overall economic
prosperity.
COP6 AIN
(Check all that apply)
We believe that government,business,and community leaders should strive to create healthy and safe communities,engaging in work that:
[3 1 Supports'ohana and communities engaging in traditional Hawaiian cultural practices,including subsistence,gathering,and farnity farming.
2 Provides access to beaches,forest areas,and other public lands for subsistence,gathering,cultural practices,and recreation,as mandated under
the Hawaii State Constitution.
C1 131 Establishes or maintains safe and accessible parks and community gathering spaces.
0 4 Commits to and grows a regenerative,circular,and zero waste economy to preserve Hawal'i's natural environment and ensure a clean sustainable
future for generations to come.
n -) Safeguards gender equity,race equity,and women's,children's and LGBTQ rights that are honored in policies and everyday practices across our
society.
0 6 Protects the community from sex-trafficking,prostitution,abusive labor practices,and other similar injustices.
[] 7 Establishes living equitable wages and a healthy work-life balance.
8 Strives for a relatively stable cost of living in Hawaii.
9 Provides comprehensive quality universal health care,which includes mental health and substance abuse support.
10Forwards policies that ensure safe workplaces with flexible work hours and telecommuting options.
11 Nurtures communities where essential health and safety professionals are integral,trusted members of the communities they serve.
Designs and funds clean,reliable,user-friendly,community-supported,and affordablepublic transportation.
Develops supports that fosterohana well-being(e,g,,longer paid maternity and paternity leave,programs that nurture strong and engaged
parenting,anger management training,and access to affordable child and senior care centers).
I.,"- Provides access to culturally appropriate conf lict resolution supports for'oha na and communities.
Supports locally grown and sourced fresh food systems,including key cultural crops associated with Hawaii' multicultural communities.
Ensures quality universal education from preschool through higher education that nurtures confident,competent,and caring individuals who are
connected to their communities and are inspired and enabled to contribute to HawaiTs well-being,
Provides full support for renormalizing throughout the community the use of'61elo Hawaii,one of two official state languages.
.18 Establishes equitable access to technology and broadband connectivity for work,education,and communication.
19 Creates reasonably priced housing in safe neighborhoods.
20 Adopts reasonable Hawaii resident taxes on home properties and ancestral'oha na lands.
Adopts new policies and taxes(e.g,,restrictions on non-resident purchases of real estate,significant capital gains taxes on short termgains from
El 2i speculative real estate sales}that eliminate opportunities or incentives for investors to purchase property in Hawaii and inflate rea I estate costs for
others.
El 22 Ensures that natural environments and communities are free from the impacts of harmful industrial electromagnetic fields,effluents,odors,
sounds,and other forms of pollution.
We seek strong,compassionate,and educated leaders who:
Pass laws and ordinances that protect the'5ina,oceans,waterways,forests,and native species—the full breadth of our finite,irreplaceable natural
environments,
C3 2 Listen to and support the will of our communities,the people they represent.
Are committed to ensuring a positive future for our islands and communities by working selflessly alongside other similarly dedicated and focused
0 business and community leaders.
Are knowledgeable about the inherent and legal rights of Native Hawaiians,the original inhabitants of these islands,and are committed to ensuring
the full implementation of these rights that are codified in State and federal laws:
The Public Land Trust,of which 20 percent of its revenues should be appropriately calculated and directed to the betterment of Native Hawaiians,
and
The Hawaiian Homelands homestead program,which must be appropriately funded and managed to provide its native Hawaiian beneficiaries
residential,agricultural.,or pastoral homesteads.
Investigate alternate economic paradigms,currencies,and measures Of success that are tied to environmental and community well-being.
Cl Work to balance the need for small agricultural entities to have affordable access to land and water and the need to foster healthy stream flows and
ecosystems connected to those streams.
7 Honor community voices in developing carrying capacities and limitations for industries and sensitive environmental,historicand cultural
ID contexts. ,
C3 8 Generate and implement fresh,innovative approaches and systems to achieve econornic and food self-reliance.
Provide a framework of environmental policies,including tax incentives, rants and other su pports that enable agri-businesses and small farms to
9 remain economically viable while being good land stewards that minimize negative environmental impacts(e.g.,waste and effluent discharge)and
that improve the long-term fertility of the lands under their care(e.g.,Syntropic and organic farming,composting,and soil development).
10 Develop energy and waste policies and systems(e.g.,buy-back agreements where utility companies compensate households and communities that
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generate energy)to directly facilitate increased self-reliance for households and communities(i.e.,the European model).
Create incentives(e.g.,tax breaks or credits and affordable credit and capital)and supports(e.g.,assistance with transportation,distribution,and
marketing systems)for small businesses,cottage and creative industries,and other community entities that a re loca ally-owned and are regenerative
and not extractive.
12 Ensure that economic gains accrued by large industries ustries operating ng in Hawaii i'i a re not exported out of Hawai'i but positively i rn pact loca[ly owned
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businesses and comunities.
[:] IIS, Balance HawaiTs economic foundation across various income contribution sectors to avoid an over reliance on any one area.
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The fra mework of goals articulated i n this H utiau Action Agend a set the context for a healthier,more cohesive a in d Bust a i na b le Hawa i I i
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guided by'6iwj*insights,Innovation,and community values. Together we stand committed to engaging the urgent work needed to bring
this vision to fruition.
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'Ai na Aloha Econo ic Futures
Checklist Guide for Decision Makers
Key questions
�� for eofficials, public -��� �u0�^��organizati »ns ;n
developing programs, or prioritizing efforts:
Checklist Guide
Does this proposal forward activities or policies consistent with 'Aina Aloha
I goals tom5barnathe immediate and long-term well-being ofHavva|'[s
environments?
Does thispro posaiaddnmsuh1 stor|ca{inJusticesandprotectthe
z constitutional rights of Native Hawaiians, including water rights,shoreline
and natural resource access?
s Does this proposal create positive systemic improvement to support healthy V~�
and safe communities and the overaiiquality oflife for aHcitizens.?
Does this proposal engage community seif-detennination' have community
4 support,and advance'AinaAloha goals tocare for Havveyi'senvironments
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Does this proposaL divers)fv Havvai'i's economy.esped aiiy in ways that
s nurture food, energy, and environmental sustainability and improves the
immediate and long-term well-being ofHavva)'|'scomrnunities?
s Does this proposal forward aregenerative,circular economy,consistent
with 'Ai naA(ohagoaIs?
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