Founders - Sustainable Living Institue of Maui

The Founding Partners:

Maui Community College
www.maui.hawaii.edu
Maui Community College (MCC) is a learning-centered institution that provides affordable, high quality credit and non-credit educational opportunities to a diverse community of lifelong learners. One of seven community colleges in the ten-campus University of Hawai`i System, MCC envisions building a world-class college that meets current and emerging Maui County education and training needs through innovative, high quality programs offered in stimulating learning environments. The College mission, goals and actions will be guided by the Native Hawaiian reverence for the ahupua`a, a practice of sustaining and sharing diverse but finite resources for the benefit of all.

MCC prepares students to meet the challenges of our ever changing economic, social and natural environment by providing access and exposure to forward-looking theories and cutting edge tools. For example, the College is an NSF National Center for Excellence in High Performance Computing Technology, which enables students to learn about cluster computing, parallel programming, high speed networking and other innovative technology. In 2005 MCC proposed its first four-year degree, the Bachelor of Science in Applied Business and Information Technology. MCC is also home to the Maui Culinary Academy, which recently moved into the new $14 million state-of the art Culinary Arts building where students learn about world class hospitality and connecting farm to table. In 2006 MCC will host the IX Islands of the World Conference, leading the dialogue on what it means to be a ‘sustainable’ island.

Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Inc.
www.mauiland.com
Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Inc. (ML&P) is a Maui based land holding and operating company dedicated to agriculture, resort operation and the creation and management of holistic communities. ML&P manages several contiguous ahupua`a in West Maui and an important section of the East Maui watershed, including the area of Hali`imaile. Situated on the slopes of the dormant volcano of Haleakala, Hali`imaile is home to the majority of ML&P’s pineapple cultivation. It is also the site of a future town center, one that ML&P envisions will host an artistic community and educational facilities. In West Maui, ML&P owns approximately 23,200 acres, on which it operates the Kapalua Resort community and cultivates organic and Hawaiian Gold® pineapple. At the crown of the West Maui Mountains, or Mauna Kahalawai, ML&P owns and manages the 8,661 acre Pu`u Kukui Watershed Preserve, which is the largest private nature preserve in the state of Hawai`i.

As steward of these land holdings, ML&P and its two principal wholly owned subsidiaries, Maui Pineapple Company, Ltd. and Kapalua Land Company, Ltd., are striving to adhere to the principles of sustainable watershed management. The three companies share a vision of creating and managing holistic communities that contribute to Maui’s sustainable future by integrating agriculture, wise stewardship of natural resources, eco-effective design principles and the development of an interrelated set of high value products and services.

EARTH UNIVERSITY
www.earth.ac.cr/ing/
EARTH University (EU) is a private, international, non-profit university offering an education in agricultural sciences and natural resources in order to contribute to sustainable development in the humid tropics. Created in 1990, EARTH is l ocated on 3,300 hectares in the heart of Costa Rica’s humid tropical region in the province of Limon. One hundred students from twenty four countries around the world join the program each year.

The EARTH educational model is based on four pillars; social commitment, environmental awareness, an entrepreneurial mentality, and the development of human values. At EARTH, students receive a unique education that combines experiential learning, an integrated curriculum, a fusion of theory, practice, laboratory work and social interaction, professors as facilitators of the learning process, and the incorporation of ethical and social principles. EARTH is committed not only to providing a vanguard, holistic, world-class education, but, more importantly, to empowering the leaders of a new “Generation of Hope.” These new leaders trained in sustainable development and the proper use of the rich biodiversity found in the rain forest of the humid tropics will effect positive change both locally and globally.

In “Cradle to Cradle” (North Point Press, 2002), McDonough and Braungart use nature as a model to develop an approach to developing products that does not create waste. Instead, products are designed such that at the end of their useful lives, they provide biological or technical nutrients for future products. Thus, materials circulate within closed-loop cycles, eliminating the concept of waste and transcending ‘eco-efficiency’ to reach ‘eco-effectiveness.’


	Aloha About the Institute Founders > MCC > ML&P > Earth U. Scholar & Intern Program Contact Us Maui Declaration Links Upcoming Events Past SLIM Events Islands of the World			The Founding Partners: Maui Community College www.maui.hawaii.edu Maui Community College (MCC) is a learning-centered institution that provides affordable, high quality credit and non-credit educational opportunities to a diverse community of lifelong learners. One of seven community colleges in the ten-campus University of Hawai`i System, MCC envisions building a world-class college that meets current and emerging Maui County education and training needs through innovative, high quality programs offered in stimulating learning environments. The College mission, goals and actions will be guided by the Native Hawaiian reverence for the ahupua`a, a practice of sustaining and sharing diverse but finite resources for the benefit of all. MCC prepares students to meet the challenges of our ever changing economic, social and natural environment by providing access and exposure to forward-looking theories and cutting edge tools. For example, the College is an NSF National Center for Excellence in High Performance Computing Technology, which enables students to learn about cluster computing, parallel programming, high speed networking and other innovative technology. In 2005 MCC proposed its first four-year degree, the Bachelor of Science in Applied Business and Information Technology. MCC is also home to the Maui Culinary Academy, which recently moved into the new $14 million state-of the art Culinary Arts building where students learn about world class hospitality and connecting farm to table. In 2006 MCC will host the IX Islands of the World Conference, leading the dialogue on what it means to be a ‘sustainable’ island. Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Inc. www.mauiland.com Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Inc. (ML&P) is a Maui based land holding and operating company dedicated to agriculture, resort operation and the creation and management of holistic communities. ML&P manages several contiguous ahupua`a in West Maui and an important section of the East Maui watershed, including the area of Hali`imaile. Situated on the slopes of the dormant volcano of Haleakala, Hali`imaile is home to the majority of ML&P’s pineapple cultivation. It is also the site of a future town center, one that ML&P envisions will host an artistic community and educational facilities. In West Maui, ML&P owns approximately 23,200 acres, on which it operates the Kapalua Resort community and cultivates organic and Hawaiian Gold® pineapple. At the crown of the West Maui Mountains, or Mauna Kahalawai, ML&P owns and manages the 8,661 acre Pu`u Kukui Watershed Preserve, which is the largest private nature preserve in the state of Hawai`i. As steward of these land holdings, ML&P and its two principal wholly owned subsidiaries, Maui Pineapple Company, Ltd. and Kapalua Land Company, Ltd., are striving to adhere to the principles of sustainable watershed management. The three companies share a vision of creating and managing holistic communities that contribute to Maui’s sustainable future by integrating agriculture, wise stewardship of natural resources, eco-effective design principles and the development of an interrelated set of high value products and services. EARTH UNIVERSITY www.earth.ac.cr/ing/ EARTH University (EU) is a private, international, non-profit university offering an education in agricultural sciences and natural resources in order to contribute to sustainable development in the humid tropics. Created in 1990, EARTH is l ocated on 3,300 hectares in the heart of Costa Rica’s humid tropical region in the province of Limon. One hundred students from twenty four countries around the world join the program each year. The EARTH educational model is based on four pillars; social commitment, environmental awareness, an entrepreneurial mentality, and the development of human values. At EARTH, students receive a unique education that combines experiential learning, an integrated curriculum, a fusion of theory, practice, laboratory work and social interaction, professors as facilitators of the learning process, and the incorporation of ethical and social principles. EARTH is committed not only to providing a vanguard, holistic, world-class education, but, more importantly, to empowering the leaders of a new “Generation of Hope.” These new leaders trained in sustainable development and the proper use of the rich biodiversity found in the rain forest of the humid tropics will effect positive change both locally and globally. In “Cradle to Cradle” (North Point Press, 2002), McDonough and Braungart use nature as a model to develop an approach to developing products that does not create waste. Instead, products are designed such that at the end of their useful lives, they provide biological or technical nutrients for future products. Thus, materials circulate within closed-loop cycles, eliminating the concept of waste and transcending ‘eco-efficiency’ to reach ‘eco-effectiveness.’