John Hardy: My green school dream

[Knewscript]

Awsm.

[crudhousefull]

Lol...everyone knows that you don't stay under thatched roofs when there are coconut trees around!! If you don't pluck the coconuts they fall right through the roof! Love the idea, but you've got to learn more to live in those conditions

[Spasatcom]

cools and goods very powerhelpull

[Ninnynha]

i want to study, live, everything, there! :O

[pjojin0]

you're an inspiration.

[katynca1]

i have just a single word... awesome!

[TheSanovita]

Hello. Nice to have found your video

[MyDavidsun]

Hi. I saw your video that's cool!

[andreeaweed]

None but ourselves can free our minds.

[tfpunk1979]

This is amazing

[natureasintended]

Fantastic. Also, I'd just like to recommend a high calorie, raw food diet. It will treat your wheeziness. Really! All the best!

[averyhappywoman]

Though I love the idea he has, if it's meant to benefit only those with money (the fees are way too huge), then I will just homeschool TT.TT I say it because I would be willing to relocate to Bali just for my child to go to this school, but it won't be possible unless I win the lottery or something. It's plain silly! Everybody needs this kind of education, not just those with the money to afford it.

[loisenasio]

Here's an idea: Rather than building a school where the children of rich western ex-pats learn to grow vegetables and participate in esoteric Balinese shamanistic rituals, build a regular school where the children of impoverished Balinese villagers can educate themselves and perhaps break out of the cycle of poverty.

Just a thought...

[wallrider88]

@loisenasio get a grip. at least, he´s doing something. get your stuff together and work it out at your own village, city, home. just a thought.

and don´t take this as an agression,

chill

[sansewai]

@loisenasio I for one agree with you.

[loisenasio]

My cousins also went to a green school in Africa, it was under a tree, at the time they called it "lack of amenities".

[ri394]

i swear if he says 'green' one more time....

[leparditas]

id love to live among these people.that such a great idea!

[shethewriter]

beautiful architecture.... much better than the poisonous concrete boxes that make up America's public schools. 

[jivenesspie]

Seems more like a camp for rich white kids who want to "keep it real" and be Eco-Chic, while their rich white parents are out there robbing the rest of the world.

[OnyxMass]

You should ruin Al Gore's life and make him rebuild his house like that.

[Sparrow1969]

Amazing. My kids would have thrived in a school like this, but I live in North Dakota, where it's winter half the year. It would be interesting to see what kind of winter alternative to this Green School in Bali we could come up with.

[Jaspian]

This is tragic.... modern kids learning to live like cavepeople...

[aliwafaafif]

@Jaspian : What a narrow minded comment....

[mariaphhd8]

that's an amazing project)

[illtrax]

These commenters are some ignorant. This type of sustainable living can work anywhere in the world. Of course you are not going to build a bamboo school in New York or Toronto; you build structures and learning environments that are crafted on LOCAL needs and resources! Building green is cheaper then traditional building and communal learning is FAR better then the broken down slave management you call an 'education' system. Wake up or return to the herd... baaa, baaa, black friday sheep... baaa

[unique5589]

@illtrax That is VERY true. The modern education is doing nothing but "dumbing" down the population.

Great comment.

[Sarosun]

looks like a fun school to me :D

[scott01019]

Lmao that sounds like a retarded idea. I would never want to go to a school like that. Going green should not mean living like it's still the stone age.

[SepirothUltima]

And why do they learn to plant organic rice in the Green School? Organic == not "green" . Organic farming is inefficient and destructive. Simply put, it is ridiculous.

[popkocher]

5:23 awkward german on the boards....

[bornearth]

i love this idea.  but local is not 20% of the indigenous people.

[andresico2]

@bornearth why not? nowadays people from all over live all around the world, it would be retrograde to exclude indigenous people just as much as it would be to exclude foreigners.

[03Critic]

My daughter also studies in similar school in Pune, India!!!

[AaronDino]

You know what, half billion Chinese children are doing these right now while they actually want a "modern" lifestyle

[papasitoman]

How can you run away at 25?

[yourtube20061]

now everything needs to be green, even the stuff coming out of our a $ $ es !!

[NsaneNtheNbrane]

This is one of the most respectable green ideas I've seen yet. He's actually building something. He actually has something to show instead of just having ideas. He hasn't just built a radical house or a hippie commune here. He's built an entire system--one that actually works and is exportable. I'll admit that the idea still needs to be developed more before we can have a sort of engineering revolution, but this is the direction we need to be going for sure.

[MrWicher]

ale faza xD

[HallounNizar]

Impressive, respect. 

[pinegulf]

Good for them. It's -10 degrees celsius here.

[honeyxbee18]

okay, the wrinkly shirt? the skirt? the giant random pit stain on only one side? I just could not take this guy seriously...

[djamorpheus]

nooo! im graduating partially!!

[Kargoneth]

I think I found a timelapse of that Heart of School building being built:

watch?v=F3svYA0VexU

[SuperAtheist]

I stopped watching after he admitted that crappy gore movie changed his life.

he should have done more research first.

[Kargoneth]

@SuperAtheist

If you move past that the rest of video is interesting (in my opinion anyways).

[alexlg18]

@SuperAtheist Why is that? It changed his life, so what?

[SuperAtheist]

@alexlg18

if something that insignificant changed his life, he has nothing of value to offer me.

[100PercentGreen]

I'm interested to know what is being taught there.

[niniomigrania]

Its all nice and all, but humanity is growing at an incredibly fast rate, so how this green dream would solve the problems we are facing? The pollution is just one of the problems we have, but not all. We live in very dense populations that need massive amount of capital and machines to be sustained. I see this more like a hippie-dream, but not very realistic. I think is nice to promote this although.

[MrLtk007]

@niniomigrania

The problem is u are looking at it while living in the present srewed up world.. and why is it screwed up.. because people r too self centred and a whole lot of mindset issues that wont fit in the youtube word limit..

Thats wat he is targeting.. people's way of thinking about the world around them from being disposable resources to sharing space with them..

Undoubtedly.. the kids coming out of that school will have higher moral standards and an open mind than all of us..

[FreeGuitarLicks]

SMUG ALERT!

[FreeGuitarLicks]

This just pissed me off.

[cookieRyan1489]

I honestly want to know.

1) How does desks not being square make the school more green?

2) How does 'the bubble' help cool the class?

3) How does a compost toilet work?

Please let me know if you have any ideas =)

[YTfckdmyotheraccount]

@cookieRyan1489 3) compost toilets are toilets where you poo and the poo stays there until you take it away or it composts away.

[kalala111]

@cookieRyan1489 1) I'm guessing not making tables square reduces waste, since the material probably doesn't grow in a square shape

2) reflects sunlight and helps keep a lower temperature?

[halfthishalfthat]

@cookieRyan1489 1) I'm pretty sure that he was just listing things about the school, ie. it is green, it has blah blah blah, the desks are not square.

2) It blocks the sun.

3) You poo in it, your poo is used as compost.

[TemporalOnline]

Rainy & Windy days must be troublesome in this "green schools"...

[NietzscheanMan]

Pervert

[Dihan22]

amazing

[elfquestfan22]

Inspiring!

[kinsmed]

This is incredible.

I didn't even know where Bali was, but now I see it could be our Garden of Eden of the future.

[anikinippon]

Hate to be in a class there in typhoon season

[chrisgelb]

the problem with a few of the alternative materials like bamboo is that when exposed to the outside elements they won't last for years. if maintenance is high and people with low income will keep replacing them after 6 months can you still consider that sustainable? wouldn't something that could withstand the sun and all the natural forces for a lifetime be more sustainable? i think the stonehenge is sustainable.

[BBwoan]

@chrisgelb

I would like to believe that they do last. If things like bamboos don't last, then I should consider buying a new home in 6months' time since my wooden house will be deteriorated by then.

[chrisgelb]

@BBwoan i was very specific. i pinpointed bamboo and not wood. wood lasts a lifetime. check out horyu-ji tempe or the urnes stave church in norway. bamboos dont last when exposed to the outside elements and coconut lumber too. you can see in the video the effects of deterioration on the building.

[MrLtk007]

@chrisgelb

The thing is even then.. the maintenance wont be as expensive or anywhere close to what our structures cost to build in the first place.. It wud have been built at a fraction of the cost than any of our modern buildings are made up of.. To get finance to procure licenses and building materials and how those materials are procured by industries in the first place to build mordern structures... Its disgusting the amount of blood and blood money goes into making a normal building..

[chrisgelb]

@MrLtk007 you're right but that is a different subject. don't digress.

[M1ST3RHYDE]

Im sure running away at 25 is not running away, That is called growing up and moving.

[M1ST3RHYDE]

Im sure running away at 25 is not running away, That is called growing up and moving.

[axel1973w]

Awesome speech!

[powerchess20002000]

I want to like this again and again..

[vegano1]

i really like his skirt

[saadazzz]

I wish I went to that school

[HappyRogueStatus]

they're all such great photos

[Aresftfun]

Maybe good for cheap hut schools. Shitty education, though.

[dleiros]

What is the point of this?? ....oh dear god...

[kevbrav]

Only 20% of the locals?

[pjedinn]

Living in Iceland... This school sounds like a nightmare...

[librariannz]

This is retarded - the effort going in to 'sustaining' this sustainable school is horribly inefficient. If the whole world adopted this approach all scientific and industrial progress would stop. I mean seriously - laying roads out of rock by hand? That's not green - that's just stupid.

[penutwi]

@librariannz green or not. "hows that road going?" "well we have been working on it for 50 years now...... 500ft done O_o" lol

[IvarNordman]

@librariannz well last time I checked they stil lay paths by hand in cities on a much larger scale then this. It isnt like they were building a interstate by hand..just a road on a very very small island from the looks of it.

Iv laid 10x10 with small stone at my dads house and it took only 2,5 day with all the digging and stuff.

I dont hear many people that says we should abandon hightec, but we sure can do stuff diffrently.

[librariannz]

@IvarNordman

While big cities might lay the odd square or path by hand I can assure you that for the most part the paving stones they use are machine cut and a lot more uniform and correct that what is being implied as 'good' here.

I'd love to see test results from some of these kids too - I bet they're way below average in maths, reading, writing and generally usefull skills!

[M1ST3RHYDE]

@librariannz

You and your Reading & science. I when to a Grean Skool and im a geneus.

& I no how to whistle while i work. Can any of yur mathimutitions do that.

[groMMit1981]

@M1ST3RHYDE no but we can spell and know how to use spell check :) invest in firefox 4 beta, doesn't it for you automaticlaly lol

[IvarNordman]

@librariannz read their curriculum on their website, it seems to me they teach what any school teach.

[kiddhitta]

yeah thoses schools will be perfect for a school of 3000 kids.

[HDvideosaregood]

First of all, this guy is wearing a skirt.

An Inconvenient Truth is full of scientifically proven LIES.

Green = a way from companies to make green. Driving a car that gets better mileage ain't gonna cool down a planet that historically has gone through natural cycles of highs and lows.

I wish these loons wouldn't be allowed to speak.

[IvarNordman]

@HDvideosaregood First of all wtf does his clothing has to do with anything?

Second: Yes the earth has gone trough cycles of hightemp/low temp before, one main diffrence: There were no human civilazation then.

Also even if anthropogenic climate change were a fact (and it is), it is not sustainable to use up natural resources at the rate we do currently. Think about our decendents. And Im not in any way advocating a return the lowtech preindustrial way of life, just a longterm sustainable life.

[IvarNordman]

@IvarNordman Meant to write "Also even if ACC were NOT a fact (and it is a fact),

[penutwi]

@HDvideosaregood right, being green is a way for corperations to make tons of green and pray on the ones that belive what they say. true or not people will pay a ton of money to be "green".

[smeppen]

Awesome.

[wearealltubes]

They're beautiful - they're bamboo.

[KhamusSolo]

The Ranch that he loved so much he picked it up for the election and dropped it as soon as the job was done. Yes he must have really put some love into that ranch.

Also no one cares about Al Gores house. You dont shoot the messenger for the message. Al Gore did not manufacture climate change ( you give him too much credit) He was just the most well known man to present it at that time. But if you could be swayed by reason, we wouldn't be talking now would we.

[rich0319726]

He sounds like he's going to have a stroke right now just giving his presentation.

[SickBang]

I wonder how the world would be like, if Al Gore had been voted next president?

[bluefootedpig]

@SickBang in the same boat. You have seen the article of al gores home vs bush right? bush's home is almost a net zero house, and al gore uses up like 10 times of the average household, and he offsets it by buying energy credits, from his own company. So I imagine not much else would be done.

[KhamusSolo]

@bluefootedpig Yes what house are you talking about? The fake ranch, or the new house in the suburbs ? To say that we would be in the same boat is slander. Al Gore wouldnt have attacked Iraq for no reason, and Al did slaughter the economy in two terms he would at least take the blame and apologize. Bushs dont apologize for anything, ever, they are apparently infallible

[bluefootedpig]

@KhamusSolo fake ranch? reported as true? or are you just hoping it isn't true? Still, just as Al Gore also showed in his video, the correlation between co2 and heat, except he showed that co2 followed temperature. So then he produced this with a horrible mistake in it, no doubt to help people invest into his companies. And for iraq, i am sure he still would. Unless he is going to break the industrial military complex, which i don't think he was going to.

[saladshootavvv]

I love how they learn crucial subjects like rice planting and plant weaving, instead of those waste of time computer thingys. Learning for the future?.....maybe in 500 BCE

[IntuitiveLeap]

@saladshootavvv learning for the future should include 'life ground' attributes such as competence in providing your own nutrition and clothing/shelter, don't you agree? Is relying only on others (nabisco for instance) for these necessities the most intelligent course of action? Does learning practical farming and homeskills at a young age in any way interfere with learning about computer 'thingys' at a later date, when brains reach sufficient maturity?

[Brodiz]

Great idea and I hope that along with teaching these kids "how to build" they are teach them how to present these same ideas for future generations. Having this green teaching and mind set is great but should be accompanied with the knowledge of how to share and inspire others to do the same.

[sileb13]

I wish we could do that here in England...

[xapemanx]

lead based paint comes in green.

[Ichijojichan]

Here in the USA, labor costs would be prohibitively expensive. For all the man-hours required in work like hand laying stones or getting fresh, organic, home made food to the table everyday, you'd either have to pay the workers less than minimum wage or you'd have to charge so much for tuition the school would be only for the elite. I'd LIKE to see it happen, but how can it? Also, what jobs does this prepare the kids for?

[TerrorWolfX]

Green School

God damn hippies!

[mike6459]

can use hemp in Canada

[NickBlackDIN]

great, Idea, though I would like some climate control here in Canada...

and why is he wearing a skirt? I know not to really judge by the clothing.. but.. common..

[JegHedderEmilxD]

06:20 a guy that sleeps

[SDoncamatic]

Not bad! :) I'd love a school that's so open and nice.

[emendamcg]

ran away at 25?

[Sondre7]

It doesn't get much more hippie than this

[lordrazi111693]

@Sondre7 lol

[wolffenhaus]

of Course it looks like a school.  Finally.

[SuperiorApostate]

The desk not being square is extremely green.

[IvarNordman]

@SuperiorApostate well he never said the shape of the desk made it green. Its just trying to make it look good, change patterns.

Its the same as someone thinking really hard about the sofa they gonna buy instead of just buying any sofa. (exchange sofa with basicly any item, same thing)

[crystalsunshine]

Awesome, beautiful, inspiring. One of the best TED presentations I've seen in a while.

[hyperseauton]

A man wearing a skirt?!

[IvarNordman]

@hyperseauton and its a clothing like any other, many cultures have skirtlike clothes for men, scots, japan etc.

[reafdaw01]

@hyperseauton It´s the traditional clothing of the balinese.

[Ibakecookiess]

@hyperseauton oh no different cultures exist? WHAT

[CaptainCobblestone]

Apology accepted. Thank you for being such a responsible citizen of your nation. For the sake of you and your countrymen.........I will pretend I never saw this.

[SuperiorApostate]

@adood101 lol, yeah..

[seomoz]

@guyincognito84 what did he wrong?

[KalifUmestoKalifa]

@guyincognito84 There is an easy way of getting rid of all the hippies, you go on top of a tall building and you jump all the time repeating: "There's no place like home, there's no place like home!" Trust me it'll work there'll be no more hippies in your world.

[IvarNordman]

@guyincognito84 I dont understand what your on about, what this guy has done is great, its showing how well you can live while still having a low impact on the earth.

Sure there is probably no need for everyone to live like this but projects like this are needed, we (humans) are using up rawmaterial at rate that is not sustainable, it might not run out next year but it will run out sometime. I for one want my decendents to live. Imo we should not abandon hightech, but we cant go on like this.

[guyincognito84]

@IvarNordman This is environmental hysteria and I'm not buying it. The earth's been through much worse and it's standing as strong as ever.

[IvarNordman]

@guyincognito84 yes sure the earth has been trough much worse, but and this is important:

While we humans were not here!

99,8% of every species that ever existed is now gone, every one of them due to disasters that affected the climate on earth (and in the case of the dinosaurs the initial astroid hit sure did in half the earths life instantly, the rest dying in the aftermath)

[reafdaw01]

@guyincognito84 My dream is to make people like you into decent human beeings.

[guyincognito84]

@reafdaw01 Sounds good. You can get on that dream once you learn how to spell "beings".

[reafdaw01]

@guyincognito84 Yes because that is really important - spelling - not the arguments one makes but wether one checks the spelling on a comment to some cunt on youtube. 

[guyincognito84]

@reafdaw01 When your only means of communication is writing then spelling is important. You not being able to spell simple words such as "being" or "whether" tells me two things; 1. You're not very bright, and 2. You don't re-read what you write (which you amusingly choose to call arguments).

[reafdaw01]

@guyincognito84 lol