If you listen to John Hardy, erstwhile jewellery designer, and current co-founder of the Green School, Bali, you will wish your own child could simply kick off her shoes, walk barefoot from one wall-less classroom to another and learn off a ‘blackboard’ fashioned out of bamboo or upcycled car windscreens. That’s what Hardy and his wife, Cynthia, who also was a jewellery designer, wanted: practise whole-ism. Their vision, inspired by the documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, was to give their four children a ‘whole’ world, not one going to pieces with denudation and plastic filling up the gaps.

Lessons from Bali

The Green School, awarded the Greenest School on Earth (2012), by the Center for Green Schools at the US Green Building Council, is set in a gentle jungle bisected by a river. With larger-than-life bamboo structures, the campus is supported by solar and hydro-power, a water recycling unit and a waste management centre.................Read more

Source: The Hindu