Column: Community’s at heart of new green fee

In Hawaii, caring for our home is not a task government can carry alone — it’s a shared kuleana held in the hands and hearts of its people. Throughout the islands, community stewards rise early to tend the lo‘i or other food crops, watch the tides and clear forest trails. They are often the first to notice change, on the frontlines of problem-solving, their work carried out quietly and with deep aloha, which has sustained Hawaii for generations.

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