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Our kūpuna remind us that "to forget your language is to forget who you are." After generations of fighting for the right to speak our native language, we finally have the agency, time, and opportunities to do so.

Hawaiʻi's housing crisis became unbearable long before COVID-19, and the pandemic's impending tide of evictions demands that we radically redefine how we think about home. We should look to the movements that seek to loosen the private market's grip on our homes and to build power among people facing housing insecurity. Instead of understanding housing as a commodity and asset, home can be understood as something inalienable—as ancestor, family, culture, and most importantly, ʻāina.

Responses to COVID-19 provide insights into the climate crisis as well as new norms that may shape our global approach to greenhouse gas mitigation. This essay reflects on the dual crises with lessons learned and opportunities for Hawai'i.

Creative cultural practices are embedded within communities, reflecting collective identities and values. During the COVID-19 pandemic, communities have activated human and digital networks to overcome restrictions on physical assemblies, enabling gatherings to share and celebrate in virtual spaces.

If we want a brighter future for Hawai'i after COVID-19, we need to change our political system. A Constitutional Convention can do this by providing a forum for a community-wide discussion of values and priorities.

Considers the enduring power of aloha in spaces of dispossession and economic abandonment. The article describes experiences and lessons from the author's ethnographic and participatory action research at Puʻuhonua O Waiʻanae from 2014 to 2017. Among the takeaways, the author learns that "home is what we make it."

Molokai has consistently practiced and maintained sustainability successfully throughout its history. This knowledge has tremendous global value for ecosystem management and sustainability principles.

This moment of pandemic has given us space to reconsider our possible, probable, and preferred futures. In this moment, we can reimagine a new set of purposes for the public sphere, and for public education, forged in the struggle for civic justice. Civic educators, and therefore all public school educators, can challenge the neoliberal project by looking to and learning from the powerful pedagogical practices being used by young people.

Hawaiʻi stands at a correctional crossroads. We can continue to rely on costly and destructive incarceration, or we can embrace community oriented and more humane responses to law breaking. Considering our location, we should embrace notions of aloha and puʻuhonua and create a correctional system based on reintegration and forgiveness.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, resource managers should be emboldened to finally manage wai proactively as waiwai, for the benefit of all of Hawaiʻi's present and future residents. The Water Code and Commission have had the necessary legal and adaptive management frameworks in place for decades, but what has been missing is leadership and funding. Decisionmakers must invest in Hawaiʻi's waiwai by redistributing fresh water, and managing and protecting resources in response to a warming planet.

Koa, the largest native hardwood tree in the Hawaiian forest and a term meaning "courage" and "warrior," can guide us in resisting and transforming the destructive impacts of militarization on the lands, seas, and peoples of Hawaiʻi. The koa forest symbolizes the strength and world-regenerative power we must become in order to face the myriad threats to our Islands and the planet.

This chapter explores two critical questions: What does it mean to live in the wake of multiple life-altering/world-ending events? And how will these and our historic experiences shape us as Kānaka as we navigate what it means to live in ethical pilina to each other and our ʻāina?

The global COVID-19 pandemic has not only changed the mode of instruction for many at the University of Hawaiʻi but has also precipitated an unprecedented budget crisis. As the Board of Regents calls on the administration to address the unknown but massive financial shortfall while contributing to the economy and developing workforce needs, how will the University's role in broadly educating students to respond creatively and resiliently not just to this crisis but also others they will face be addressed in any proposed restructuring? And how might creating more opportunities for students in Hawaiʻi to pursue higher education here transform the University for the betterment of the people of this place?

In an essay written in June 2020, Hawaiʻi's Lieutenant Governor reflects on the state's response to the outbreak of COVID-19, its strategies for testing and quarantining, as well as options for reopening tourism.