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Thoughtful, inspirational videos about education
Hardy has long been an advocate of the use of bamboo as an alternative to timber for building and reforestation. When running his company, Hardy pioneered a program of sustainable advertising that offset the carbon emissions associated with the yearly corporate print advertising by planting bamboo on the island of Nusa Penida in a cooperative plantation. John Hardy, founder of the Green School, in BaliChildren today spend more time in the virtual world than the natural world. What are the consequences of a life disconnected from nature? The documentary Play Again unplugs a group of media savvy teens and takes them on their first wilderness adventure to find out. Here's another film, a 2011 Official Selection othe Environmental Film Festival: Mother Nature's Child. A growing percentage of children in Norway are attending outdoor preschool. It is not the same as Tracks & Tales, but the kids are outdoors in all weather and have a flexible, passion-based schedule. They are comfortable clambering over boulders and even climb mountains together. These two videos by Sir Ken Robinson provide an excellent overview of some of the issues children are facing today. Sir Ken Robinson: Do Schools Kill Creativity?Sir Ken Robinson: Changing education paradigmsMore about Ken Robinson and TED Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world...TED Please contact us if you have any questions! Tracks & Tales is part of the Natural Learning Center. |
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After selling his jewelry company in 2007, John Hardy and his wife, Cynthia, endowed a thrilling new project: the Green School in Bali. At the Green School, kids learn in open-air classrooms surrounded by acres of gardens that they tend; they learn to build with bamboo; and meanwhile they're being prepared for traditional British school exams. The school is international -- 20 percent of students are Bali locals, some on scholarship. The centerpiece of the campus is the spiraling Heart of School, which may be called Asia's largest bamboo building.