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Transcript: Earl Kawa‘a

Health comes from the land

[Kawa’a:]
In Hawaiian society there’s a piece of land called “ahupua’a.” It is so important that everyone in this land division that we are of the highest quality in health, intellectually superior, physically superior, academically well off. Because without those three your ahupua’a would be nothing. It would be nothing, and healthy in many ways. So healthy with regards to harvesting—you take what you need. You pull from the earth and you cut a slip and you put it back into the ground. That’s going green. It’s what Al Gore is doing that we’ve been doing for hundreds of years.