Demand the Impossible! The Green School In a swath of jungle near Ubud, Bali, the Green School has just finished the second year of operation. The gong announces the beginning of class, where students learn in bamboo pavilions without walls. A hen and two chicks scuttle across the earth floor of the ampitheatre. The staff has just cleared the remaining banana-leaf plates used to serve the organic lunch. In a groundup approach, all of the campus structures, 30 and counting, are handcrafted from bamboo, connecting the design to the pedagogical core of the school. American Cynthia and her partner, Canadian designer John Hardy, have lived on Bali for over thirty years. In making the school, John Hardy did not turn to the international architecture competition circuit. This school’s structure was built with three different types of bamboo: Petung, Tali and Duri. Early experiments in furniture taught the design team how bamboo performs. View of the “Heart of School”. Within the restrictions of bamboo, variations of form flourish.
United World Colleges United World Colleges (or UWC) is an education movement comprising 14 international schools and colleges, national committees in more than 140 countries, and a series of short educational programmes. Students are selected from around the globe based on their merit and potential. UWC schools, colleges and national committees offer scholarship and bursary schemes as well as accepting a limited number of fee-paying students. The UWC international organisation is a British-based foundation and has 14 schools and colleges in Canada, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Norway, Singapore, Swaziland, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Armenia, Costa Rica, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Netherlands; national committees in more than 140 countries; a portfolio of short programmes running in numerous countries; a network of more than 50,000 alumni from more than 181 countries,[1] and an International Office in London. History[edit] Hahn envisaged a college educating boys and girls of age 16 to 20.
Research, sustainability and learning Bamboo Architecture: Green School, Bali | Archian Designs: Architects in Bacolod, Iloilo, Cebu, Davao & the Philippines April 24, 2011 by Archian Architect Feature: Green School in Bali, Indonesia Environmentalists and designers John and Cynthia Hardy wanted to motivate communities to live sustainably. Part of that effort was to show people how to build with sustainable materials, namely bamboo. They established the Green School, and its affiliates: the Meranggi Foundation, which develops plantations of bamboo plants through presenting bamboo seedlings to local rice farmers; and PT Bambu, a for-profit design and construction company that promotes the use of bamboo as a primary building material, in an effort to avoid the further depletion of rainforests. The Green School, a giant laboratory built by PT Bambu, is located on a sustainable campus straddling both sides of the Ayung River in Sibang Kaja, Bali, within a lush jungle with native plants and trees growing alongside sustainable organic gardens. Green School Bamboo Ceiling Green School Bamboo Architecture Green School-Architect John Hardie Like this:
The Harlem Project - Page 4 Back in 1990, Geoffrey Canada was just your average do-gooder. That year, he became the president of a nonprofit charitable organization based in Harlem called the Rheedlen Centers for Children and Families, and he set out trying to improve the world, one poor child at a time. It was a bad moment to be poor in New York City. Harlem, especially, was suffering under the simultaneous plagues of crack cocaine, cheap guns and rampant homelessness, and Canada's main goal at Rheedlen, in those years, was to keep the children in his programs alive. But after he ran these programs for a few years, day in and day out, his ideas about poverty started to change. At around the same time, he was invited by Marian Wright Edelman, the president of the Children's Defense Fund, to join a group she had recently founded called the Black Community Crusade for Children. Canada knew there were success stories out there.
Teach C.R.E.A.T.E. Contraintes Outward Bound International Proposal for MIT Global Environment Initiative seeks public comment As the world’s population continues to expand, our natural resources will become increasingly strained. In an effort to find sustainable solutions for the planet’s growing population while minimizing environmental impacts, MIT’s Environmental Research Council (ERC) has put forward a detailed implementation plan to establish a Global Environmental Initiative to complement the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI). The interdisciplinary, faculty-led council presented the plan to the MIT community last Thursday in a forum held at the Kirsch Auditorium in the Stata Center. “It’s impossible to imagine a problem bigger and more compelling, or more suited to the strengths of MIT, than how to drive toward global sustainability,” said MIT President Susan Hockfield in a video address to the forum. In the areas of climate and oceans, MIT already has a strong foundation of interdisciplinary collaboration. The initiative also lays out a plan for creating educational programs.
L'Action de l'of-FEEE | of-FEEE - office français de la Fondation pour l'Education à l'Environnement en Europe Publics cibles : Collectivités locales, animateurs, établissements scolaires, professionnels du bois et de la forêt, grand public Les objectifs et le fonctionnement de l'opération :L'ONU a proclamé le 21 Mars "Journée internationale des forêts". Partout dans le monde sont organisés des événements pour nous rappeler la contribution essentielle de l'arbre à nos vies, que ce soit en forêt ou en ville. La forêt a de multiples fonctions, est partagée par de multiples acteurs pour de multiples usages : elle a une fonction économique importante (source de plus de 425 000 emplois en France), une fonction sociale majeure (loisirs, culture, sport, art) ainsi qu'une fonction écologique essentielle (production d'oxygène, épuration de l'air et de l'eau, stabilisation des sols, séquestration du CO2, et abri d'une biodiversité très riche). La France est le 3ème pays le plus boisé de l'Union Européenne et possède un patrimoine forestier considérable et parfois méconnu.
Alternative education Alternative education, also known as non-traditional education or educational alternative, includes a number of approaches to teaching and learning separate from that offered by mainstream or traditional education. Educational alternatives are rooted in a number of philosophies differing from those of mainstream education. Although some alternatives have political, scholarly or philosophical orientations, others were begun by informal associations of teachers and students dissatisfied with some aspects of mainstream education. Educational alternatives (which include charter, alternative and independent schools and home-based learning) vary, but usually emphasize small class sizes, close relationships between students and teachers and a sense of community. Terminology[edit] Alternative education refers to education which does not conform to a conventional standard. Origins[edit] Alternative education presupposes a tradition to which the "alternative" is opposed. In the United States[edit]