Climate Conversations
This page shares social media campaigns, films, art and other youth projects related to climate change. Most projects were produced by students in our leadership, filmmaking and climate literacy programs. We share these projects to amplify youth voices and perspectives on climate change, and to help inspire personal and global climate action.Student Projects Investigating Climate Change Solutions
The goal of our Huliau Climate Literacy Project is to build climate literacy in our community by supporting teachers in teaching about climate change and encouraging an inclusive conversation about climate change solutions. During the 2024-2025 school year, 565 students from 7 different schools participated in the program. After investigating the causes and impacts of climate change, students researched solutions. They explored Project Drawdown’s climate change solutions focusing on reducing greenhouse gases by avoiding emissions and/or by sequestering carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere. In addition to the solution they researched, they used the UN’s Sustainable Development goals to identify how their solution related to these goals in creating a more just and sustainable world for all. Here are some of the innovative solutions students researched and presented as their final project.
Instagram Posters for COP26
Our Huliau Leadership Council students created the Instagram posters and caption below as part of #EyesonCOP26 social-media campaign encouraging world leaders at the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow to take meaningful action on climate change. These posters are being shared on Maui Huliau Foundation’s Instagram and Facebook accounts during the conference November 1st-12th. You can see their posters in the slider below. You can also make your own poster with the #EyesonCOP26 hashtag and tag @mauihuliau and @COP26uk on Instagram or Facebook to add your voice to the global call for action on climate change.
#EyesonCOP26
This is the promo video for Connect4Climate’s #EyesonCOP26 Campaign.
#DontChooseExtinction
This video was produced by the UN leading up to COP26.
Student Projects on Climate Change
These films were created by students in our Leadership Council and Environmental Filmmaking programs.
How to be a Planet Helper
Students from St Anthony’s digital media class created this short educational film aimed at teaching elementary school students about ways to reduce waste. The film features two students who are guided by a magical character to learn about the “3 R’s”: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. By students of St Anthony’s digital media class This film was made by Maui students the 2023-24 school year as part of our filmmaking program in schools.
Earth Looks for Insurance
Starring characters from multiple insurance commercials, this parody follows Earth as she attempts to acquire insurance coverage against climate change. The film offers a satirical commentary on the increasing difficulty of finding coverage for the growing impacts of climate change. This film was created by Maui students during a five day spring break program program hosted by Maui Huliau Foundation and Hisako Film Lab.
Mālama i ke Kai
In this short narrated film, three of our fall Huliau Environmental Filmmaking students share about their personal relationships with the ocean, threats facing marine environments, and why they think it is important for us all to mālama i ke kai (take care of the ocean).
Sea Level Rise Adaptation Film
This short film covers some of the impacts that sea level rise will have on Maui’s coastlines and four adaptation strategies that can be used to mitigate some of these impacts. It was created by four of our Huliau Leadership Council students with guidance from Tara Owens, Coastal Processes and Hazards Specialist from University of Hawaiʻi’s Sea Grant College Program. You can learn more about our leadership program for Maui students in grades 9-12 at mauihuliaufoundation.org/leadership
Low “Foodprint” Recipes
This Prezi video and series of TikTok videos were produced by four of our leadership students and feature four low “foodprint” recipes. Students researched each ingredient’s carbon footprint, and generally focused their recipes on plant-based local ingredients. You can watch all the videos in the playlist below and download their written recipes here.
Some of the student art and program activities featured above were funded in partnership with Krause Family Foundation: ʻAlana Ke Aloha by a grant from the Hawai‘i Council for the Humanities, through support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed on this webpage, do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Our Climate Literacy Project is funded in part by the Makana Aloha Foundation and the Cooke Foundation.
Our Leadership Council is funded in part by a grant from the Johnson ʻOhana Foundation, founded by Kim and Jack Johnson to support environmental, art, and music education.


















