KA WAIWAI

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KA WAIWAI MA MŌʻILIʻILI -
1110 UNIVERSITY AVE, SUITE 100 HONOLULU HI 96828

KA WAIWAI MA NUʻUANU -
1164 NUʻUANU AVENUE, HONOLULU HI 96817

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ALOHA@WAIWAICOLLECTIVE.COM

PHONE

(808) 892-1813

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The WAIWAI COLLECTIVE
Waiwai Collective is a group of Native Hawaiian entrepreneurs who share kuleana and a passion for uplifting the lāhui. Through their work, they have seen the extraordinary power of physical community when people come together with purpose and aloha.  Ka Waiwai is a call to action for the lāhui kanaka to come together and dream up ideas of exchange and abundance that prioritize the quality of relationships and the balance between people and the ʻāina.

FOUNDERS
Mahinapoepoe Duarte
Keoni Lee
Jamie Makasobe

MISSION
Cultivating a community that takes the creative risks necessary to put collective values into daily practice, affirm shared responsibilities, and learn together to create a more waiwai future.

WHY
The challenges we face today in areas like housing, education, healthcare and the environment are big and complex, almost paralyzing in the face of seeming inevitability. The societal systems in Hawaiʻi are not working well so what are we to do?
At the core of Ka Waiwai is the belief that traditional Hawaiian ways of thinking and doing to create abundance and value on islands can be repurposed in a contemporary context. However, this is possible only if we give ourselves the space, and build the relationships necessary, to work collectively and creatively to translate the old into the new and vice versa. Our intention is not to go back in time but rather to learn from and build upon our ancestral foundation of innovation and ingenuity to create new systems of wealth and abundance in Hawaiʻi.

STRIVING FOR ZERO WASTE
It is our kuleana as a community gathering place and business to empower ourselves, members, partners, and the broader community to engage in pono practices that bring us into sacred and reciprocal relationship with the ʻāina, our ancestors, and our descendants.
The goal of this plan is to re-indigenize resource management where rather than dispose “waste” we reincorporate the by-products of one system to be used by another system, and so on, in a reciprocal loop. There is no such thing as “waste” in natural ecosystems. In nature, the by-product of one system feeds another system. Western capitalist economies create this thing called “waste,” while Native Hawaiians lived sustainably as part of an interdependent ahupuaʻa system. We can practice indigenous resource management again, through small shifts, by taking kuleana for the waste we produce and minimizing our negative impact on our precious island ecosystem.

KA WAIWAI PRACTICES
Compost all food waste &/or we feed the pigs!
Zero plastic & styrofoam waste policy
Work with Vendors that reuse their packaging
We serve with dishware, glassware, cutlery & cloth napkins
Restroom hand towels
Recycle!
Inform, Empower & Educate our staff, members, partners & vendors
We considerately ask that all partners, collaborators & guests honor our
ʻAi Pono & Waste Management practices & commitments!