Hawaiʻi Sustainability Goals & The Aloha+ Challenge

The Hawaiʻi Sustainability Summit has teamed up with Hawaiʻi Green Growth to uplift the work done through the Aloha+ Challenge.

The Aloha+ Challenge was inspired by island leadership commitments and builds on a legacy of community initiatives, including Hawai‘i 2000, Mālama Hawai‘i, and Hawai‘i 2050, to support collective action.

Launched in 2014, the Aloha+ Challenge identified six priority goals and local metrics that are delivering against the global United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Hawai‘i Green Growth Local 2030 Hub and partners are catalyzing island-led solutions to drive concrete action.

Explore the Aloha+ Dashboard to see statewide progress and benchmark data on the Aloha+ SDGs and Hawai‘i's contribution to global goals.

For Youth Congress Participants:

Ahead of attending the Youth Congress,

Visual Elements

Designed by Koloikapō Designs, the moʻolelo of this year’s Sustainability Summit logo and key area icons are rich with symbolism and encapsulate the Summit’s vision, orientation, and goals.

The Hawaiʻi Sustainability Summit logo showcases just a part of the artwork that tells a story of legacy, flow, and most of all, sustainability. The four solid arches in the logo are meant to symbolize the turn in the flow of a river like the mahiʻai most upstream in an ‘ahupuaʻa that leave a legacy in the water that is filtered through their loʻi kalo and directed back downstream to other mahiʻai. Like these upstream mahiʻai, we have a responsibility to set sustainable habits for the future generations to come. The triangles are meant to aid in this metaphor and the steadfastness and strength required as we move forward as a lāhui.

The mākāhā. Used for regulating fish as they enter and exit the loko iʻa, this ocean resource management tool invented on the island of Oʻahu in the time of Piʻilani.

The hale noho or the hālau. Smart Sustainable Communities are represented and embodied by their gathering places.

The garbage can. If can, we need to reduce our reliance on the garbage can.

The laulau. One of the more iconic ‘ono foods that Hawaiians cook in our underground ovens. There is no better way to represent “local food.”

The nalu. One of the cleanest forms of energy that Hawaiians figured out how to ride in their pioneering of heʻenalu - surfing.

The koʻi. Used for falling trees, carving waʻa, crafting weapons, and giving shape to our sacred idols. One of the most important tools in Hawaiian culture.