Manulani Aluli Meyer: Nurturing untaxable relationships of mutual sharing

Why have the majority of coconut trees across the Hawaiian islands not been allowed to bring coconut fruit into maturity? What does it mean to nurture communities of sharing and caring that are more relational, less transactional, and therefore less taxable? And how do Hawaiian ways of knowing — situating the intellectual and sensorial in the biocultural — fundamentally differ from Western epistemologies? In this conversation, Green Dreamer’s kaméa chayne is joined by Dr. Manulani Aluli Meyer, the author of Hoʻopono: Mutual emergence , and co-director of NiU Now!, a community cultural agroforestry movement emerging to affirm the importance of niu (coconut) and uluniu (coconut groves). Tune in as we explore the biocultural significance of coconut groves in Native Hawaiian culture, how the ongoing work of revitalizing uluniu supports community food sovereignty in Hawaiʻi, and more. We invite you to… tune in and

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Manulani Aluli Meyer: Nurturing untaxable relationships of mutual sharing is an episode from Green Dreamer: Sustainability From Ideas to Life with Eco Pioneers, Revolutionary Thinkers, Leading Creatives by Kaméa Chayne.

This episode is 47:11 long.

This episode was published on Jan 24, 2026.

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