b'SOCIAL IMPACT REPORTA Living Story is a conversation with a place and its people, understanding what the land wants to do, what it will permit us to do, and what it will support us in doing. In 2023, we set out with biomimicry expert Jamie Miller to connect with nature and people deeply connected to the health and wellbeing of our ina and its people. Knowing how to live with this land is not lost.Native Hawaiians, who lived here for nearly 2000 years, learned about resiliency out of necessity. This connection to history is what makes Kauai so rich and our ancestral economy such an important model for the world.INSPIRED BY NATURE You can\'t keep taking and taking and taking every day of the year. It involves discipline (of the people living on the land) to know when to take, and when to let the land rest. We Our Living Story need to engage with each other, and how we engage with each other needs to be flexible enough to be inclusive. Dr. Keao NeSmith The ahupuaa system is brilliant. It works. It makes so much sense. Those people who danced with nature built a system that works with nature. It is here, and it will give us the foundation to build upon. Jamie Miller, PhD, Director of Biomimicry, B+H Architects SCAN TO WATCH"KAUA\'I: A LIVING STORY"9'