Other Emerging Efforts

Co-housing is a type of sustainability that Hilo could take part in. Residents of Hilo and other parts of Big Island would have to make a few sacrifices, but would be able to incorporate co-housing locally. The first and most important thing to realize as a community considering co-housing would be that the residents have to actively participate. All the residents would put forth effort to build each other's homes and social playgrounds. This style of communal building takes place on some level with the Habitat for Humanity.

Also, residents would have to be willing to live in a tightly nit community. Neighborhoods would be designed to encourage social contact and individual space. This form of living is similar to how the sugarcane workers would live in at the turn of the 20th century. By eliminating racial tension is the sole way any mixed race co-housing would be realistic here in Hawaii.