The goal of the Malama I Ke Kai project is to create a community environmental, cultural and education center that embodies the entire concept of ahupua’a resource management, which is to take care of all living things from the mountains to the ocean. An ahupua’a was a Hawaiian land division system, which contained strips of land that extended from the mountain to the ocean. The ahupua’a supported a self-contained community who worked with a spirit of cooperation of caring and revering both the land and ocean to meet everyone’s needs.