Manulani Aluli Meyer: Nurturing untaxable relationships of mutual sharing
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
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.
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Song feature: “E ʻOlu” by Pohai (ft. Pulama), via Ohana Records
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's your host, Kamea. As we weave into this new year, I wanted to share that we're at a point where sustaining and growing this work with continued integrity requires more from the community that holds it. So if Green Dreamer has nurtured you, helped you to feel less alone, or offered you something that you couldn't find in mainstream spaces, I invite you |
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| 0:45.8 | and you're open to exploring alignment for a partnership, I'd love to connect further. |
| 0:50.2 | You can email me directly at Kamea at greendreamer.com. Everything really adds up. That is the |
| 0:57.1 | power in the collective, and we're so grateful to have you here. I'm a hilo girl. Most of my work |
| 1:07.1 | is exchanged without money. It's not like we only do it 10% of our day. We do it all the |
| 1:12.4 | time. There's a hidden billion dollar industry here that will never get taxed, and that is |
| 1:17.6 | through our sharing. |
| 1:33.1 | You're listening to Green Dreamer, and I'm listening to Green Dreamer, and I'm your host, Kamea Shane. |
| 1:40.2 | Today, I'm so honored to bring you my conversation with Dr. Manulani Aluli Meyer, |
| 1:48.0 | who leads the Poo-Hon-U-Nuwa Society Food Sovereignty Initiative, Niu-Nao, alongside Mr. Indrudjit. |
| 1:54.4 | She works in the field of indigenous epistemology and its role in worldwide awakening, |
| 1:58.9 | and her latest book is Hoopono, Mutual Emergence. |
| 2:05.0 | We cover so much in this discussion, including her work in reviving coconut groves for community food sovereignty in Hawaii, what it means to nurture communities |
| 2:11.5 | of sharing and caring that are more relational, less transactional, less reliant on commodification and therefore less |
| 2:19.9 | taxable, and so much more. I'm not sure how this might be finding you in this particular |
| 2:27.6 | moment, how your day has been, but before we dive in, if this feels supportive to you, I want to |
| 2:34.0 | invite you to take a few deep breaths. |
| 2:37.0 | To maybe release anything you want to let go of or shelf for the time being, |
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