Sustainable Solutions

Sustainable Solutions is an eco-festival produced and organized by Green School, gathering solution-makers aiming to connect, inspire, educate and empower our community to live more sustainably, NOW!

Sustainable Solutions is bringing together solution providers from all backgrounds – NGOs, schools, social businesses, startups, teachers, students, community members – all to gather, connect, inspire, educate, and equip our community to live more sustainably.

What To Expect

Talks, Documentaries Screenings, Panel Discussions, Youth Activism, Performances, Art, Eco-vendors, Movement and Meditation…

Be part of the change, Be part of the solution

Over the past few decades, globalization has impaired the earth, both directly and indirectly. Moreover, in our current time, mother earth is facing a lot of environmental issues, such as climate change, overproduction of waste, illegal logging, air and water pollution, and so many more.

As human beings, we have become more and more disconnected from nature, as well as from each other.
Green School is a non-profit K-12 school whose mission is to educate and gather a community of learners making our world sustainable.

We believe children, students can come up with solutions.

While adults may have more experience, children often offer more genuine solutions. While elders have the wisdom and guidance, students retain their passion that allows mountains to be shaken.

Let’s give space and empower the youth for sustainable solutions.

2019 THEME AND FOCUS:

Indigenous Wisdom, Indigenous Knowledge

Click here to read more about 2019 theme

CONNECT, RESPECT, PROTECT

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Add to My Calendar 2019-05-02 09:00 2019-05-04 21:00 Asia/Singapore Green School, Sustainable Solutions Connect, Respect, Protect Green School conducts an annual eco-festival “Sustainable Solutions” where solution providers from different backgrounds – NGOs, social businesses, startups, teachers, students, community members – will gather, connect, inspire, educate, and equip our community to live more sustainable now. Green School Bali Green School Bali sustainablesolutions@greenschool.org

Thursday, May 2 - CONNECT

In honor of our Indigenous guests, we will start the festival with a big guest panel opening to initiate our connection with the incredible mix of representatives from New Zealand Maori, Native Americans, Australian Aboriginals, Indonesian Dayaks and Papuan and of course the Asli of this beautiful island of Bali.

We want to engage in a conversation on that day to hear from indigenous people about traditions, their cultural practices, their preserved or endangered traditions to understand from their perspective why it is so important to CONNECT, RESPECT AND PROTECT them. We will open the conversation to the modern world’s angle to share perceptions on the use of modern technology, creating tools of preservation, holding gatherings and building platforms for efficient exposure that creates awareness.

Can we find the balance between the modern world’s need for hyper-efficiency and market world’s need for profit and the indigenous world’s real-time presence to consciousness that preserves the sacred connection in a slower and more mindful way? Will humanity survive if we don’t find the balance? Can we share together and find meeting points to work together towards sustainable solutions?

Indigenous people have ceremonies, ancestral teachings, cultural practices and strict rules for harvesting resources. Sometimes they pray and talk to the plants before collecting them, assuring them no harm will be come to the land and they will have the ability to continue life-cycles and regenerate. Plants are medicine, food, and materials for ceremonies and art. How they are used and collected become a codex or collection of traditions passed down through generations in song, dance, art and text. The use of the earth’s resources and elements are one with Iindigenous identity.

What happens when Indigenous lose or are removed from their land or when these plants are being or replaced by monoculture agriculture? Are their identities not threatened? What does it mean for them to be losing their identity? Is modern humanity’s identity also at risk?

Indigenous people’s traditions and instinctive way of often colliding with the modern world’s constant need for efficiency, profit, and scientific proof. We are all facing climate collapse and desertification. We need to work together. How can we find reconciliation?

Come join this very special offsite intimate gathering: LIMITED TICKETS

TICKET INCLUDES / DAY PROGRAM:

Day starts at 9am – offsite from Green School (venue tbc)

Opening Circle

Morning discussion: authentic conversation (described above), panel discussion

Lunch

Break-out hands-on workshops (see below)
Back to Green School for Sustainable Solutions Festival Official Opening

In the afternoon, you will split out into smaller groups and continue the day with hands-on activities. We will continue to connect with one another and with traditions: weaving, planting, cooking… all the options will be presented to you on that day. You will choose on the spot.

At approximately 4:00pm, we will all go back to Green School for the official opening ceremony of Sustainable Solutions.

Friday, May 3 - RESPECT

Sustainable Solutions continues its journey into indigenous and local traditions, RESPECT.

On the second day, we will address sub themes, such as women, education, medicinal herbs, food and farming, as well as youth.

A full day of activities including workshops, talks, informal and formal gatherings, hands-on activities and documentary screenings followed by Q&A with directors and producers.

We invite you to engage with our Youth who has so much to share and to inspire.

With the utmost respect, we will hear, learn from and share with incredible guests coming from different parts of the world

Let’s listen to their voice, listen to who they are so we connect and respect the messages they carry.

Within Today’s theme: RESPECT, we will also address Sub themes, such as women, education, medicinal herbs, food and farming, youth.

Stay for special evening performances: a rich mix dance and music performed by our respectful indigenous guests and Green School students’ performances.

Joyful and powerful experience guaranteed.

EVENING PERFORMANCES PASS INCLUDES

Music and dance performances

Line up to be announced…

2 DAY PASS INCLUDES

Friday, May 3 – RESPECT

Full day of activities including Workshops, Talks, Informal and formal gatherings, Hands-on activities and Documentary screenings followed by Q&A with Directors and Producers.

We invite your to say for special evening performances: a rich mix dance and music performed by our respectful Indigenous Guests and Green School students’ own performances. Joyful and powerful experience guaranteed.

Saturday, May 4 – PROTECT

Full day of activities including Workshops, Talks, Informal and formal gatherings, Hands-on activities and Documentary screenings followed by Q&A with Directors and Producers.

Afternoon: Indigenous Led Forum.

Closing circle at approximately 4:00pm

3 DAY PASS INCLUDES:

Thursday, May 2 – CONNECT

Day starts at 9am – offsite from Green School (venue tbc)

Opening Circle
Morning discussion: authentic conversation (described above), panel discussion
Lunch (details below)
Break-out hands-on workshops (see below)
Back to Green School for Sustainable Solutions Festival Official Opening

For lunch, Chef Charles Toto from Papua is preparing a succulent meal. As he presents us with food, he will tell us about his initiative: Papua Jungle Chef, a solution he offers for Papuan People to reconnect with what he calls “market without using money’’ that is the Papua Jungle.

At approximately 4:00pm, we will all go back to Green School for the official opening ceremony of Sustainable Solutions

Friday, May 3 – RESPECT

Full day of activities including Workshops, Talks, Informal and formal gatherings, Hands-on activities and Documentary screenings followed by Q&A with Directors and Producers.

Saturday, May 4 – PROTECT

Full day of activities including Workshops, Talks, Informal and formal gatherings, Hands-on activities and Documentary screenings followed by Q&A with Directors and Producers.

Afternoon Indigenous Led Forum.

Closing circle at approximately 4:00pm

SATURDAY PASS INCLUDES

Saturday, May 4, 2019 – PROTECT

Activities including Workshops, Talks, informal and formal gatherings, hands-on activities and Documentary screenings followed by Q&A with Directors and Producers.

Afternoon: Indigenous Led Forum.

Closing circle at approximately 4:00pm

THURSDAY PASS INCLUDES

Thursday, May 2 – CONNECT

Day starts at 9am – offsite from Green School (venue tbc)

Opening Circle
Morning discussion: authentic conversation (described above), panel discussion
Lunch (details below)
Break-out hands-on workshops (see below)
Back to Green School for Sustainable Solutions Festival Official Opening

At approximately 4:00pm, we will all go back to Green School for the official opening ceremony of Sustainable Solutions.

FRIDAY PASS INCLUDES

Friday, May 3 – RESPECT

Full day of activities including Workshops, Talks, Informal and formal gatherings, Hands-on activities and Documentary screenings followed by Q&A with Directors and Producers.

Saturday, May 4 - PROTECT

Saturday, May 4, 2019 – PROTECT

Sustainable Solutions continues its journey into Indigenous and Local traditions PROTECT

Another full day of activities including Workshops, Talks, informal and formal gatherings, hands-on activities and Documentary screenings followed by Q&A with Directors and Producers.

In the afternoon, Green School will humbly hold space for an Indigenous Led Forum.

For a few months prior to the event, Sustainable Solutions’ Indigenous Guests will have communicated with one another and organize the format, the themes and the issues THEY want to raise. THEY are inviting us to take part of their conversation. We are switching roles and let them tell us how we can participate in THEIR event, help with PROTECTING them..

It will be a very unique moment.

Don’t miss it.

We will gently close the day and the event with an authentic closing circle at approximately 4:00pm

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