translator: ted translators adminreviewer: rhonda jacobs i'm here, courtesy of a coconut. eight weeks ago,i woke up on monday morning, i didn't go to work.i don't have a job. i went walking in the forest,and i heard a: "hu, hu, hu,"
bali today, and a coconut hit me in the face. (laughter) broke my nose, bashed in my eye,cracked my skull, and worse than that,it pushed me off a high ridge
and i landed on a rock 25 feets below. i broke my ribs in 17 places. i was very lucky. i was sitting thereand it was like a bad movie, a bad cowboy moviewhere you cough up blood and that's the end. and i was very happy it wasn't the end. i went through a world of pain,more morphine than i ever want to have, and i'm here.
i'm very happy to be here. (applause) thank you. last week, the balinese priestfound my soul beside the river, and he put it back in my body and this little string is hereto remind me that my soul is back, and all i can do now is continue the work. how many of you have been to bali? how many of you want to go to bali?
i'm in a good crowd. you've got a packet, i hope. and i hope in your packetyou have this stuff - the grass. don't smoke it. put it between your hands, both hands, and rub, really hard. some people didn't get grass. everybody got grass; ok, good. now rub hard, and then do this.
now you know what bali smells like. the little packet,keep your little packet, there's more little trickswe're going to do because i wantto connect you to bali today. it’s been five yearssince i started green school. and it’s a giant bamboo school with a new approachto sustainable architecture. you saw it being built. when we started, we understood thatthe only way to make this school work
was we had to attract peopleand build a community. that's the green school bridge. it's our icon.it was our first building. it has only been washed awayonce by global warming, but it's back, it's strongerand it's better. green school is working. it's a success. we have 250 kids from 40 countries. and 10% of the kids at the schoolare local balinese kids on scholarship.
the plan, the intention, is 20%, and we will get there. these kids are gettingan amazing education, and... they're smiling. how many of you smiled at school? i didn't. what’s happening is called"the green school effect," and it's taken holdand it’s becoming a reality. in the five years that this schoolhas been running,
we've discovered a number of things, and that's what i'm goingto tell you about today, things that have happened at green school. the extraordinary thing is that people seepictures of green school and they decide to move therebefore they know it's in bali. and when you tellyour wife or your husband you're moving to a bamboo schooland you can't even tell them where it is - we've created quite a lotof marital discontent.
some people have taken three yearsto get to green school because they’re draggingtheir mate along behind them. but this is real power. the extraordinary senseof space and design at green school has inspired many things far beyond it. this beautiful bamboo homewas built by a woman who was working in new yorkjust couldn't make a difference. didn't get it. my eldest daughter elora returned to bali
and created an artisan-basedbamboo building company. it's called ibuku. "ibu" - "mom;" "ku" - "mine." my mother, your mother, and the big mother: mother earth. the same artisans who built green school are now building green village. and they are teaching usto do things differently. they build 3-d modelsout of bamboo sticks,
they engineer them, and they becomehand-built, bespoke houses. the results are natural, beautiful space that changes the behaviorof the people that live in them. who wouldn’t be inspired waking up in this house? the green school effect is spreading. developers from all over the worldare running around. you've seen them,
looking for the next thing. they come to green school. this project is beingbuilt by indonesians. it will be the greenest hotel in the worldand it's entirely made of bamboo. who wouldn’t want to check in here? physicality, irresistibility. people will be making reservationsbefore they know where the hotel is. these kids making chocolate. where is the chocolate?
uh oh. take the chocolate. take off the plastic. sorry about the plastic. put it in your mouth, don't gobble it; just let it melt on your tongue. this is chocolate from bali,the taste of bali, the smell, the taste. these green school kidsare making chocolate by hand. and then green school parent benand his partner freddy
decided to make a lot of chocolate with this antique machine. raw chocolate. they built this factory near the school. they chose bamboo. the world’s biggest bamboo factory. raw chocolate for everyone. the health benefits are huge. you just took enough antioxidantsto last you all week,
which is a problemif you want to sell more chocolate. every week you need one. the school is changing the parents. the parents are usuallytrying to change the school. this father wanted an amazingcup of fresh coffee, and this is how he did it. he went with this buddynyoman to the mountain. he found organic beans.he brought them home. he roasted them behind his house by hand,
and he started a little companycalled freak coffee. a business based on fresh roast. this year he opened three shops - coffee is world class. you can taste it when youcome to the school for lunch. he’s teaching green school studentsabout local business, and he's teaching them to be baristas. this is one of our students. green school parents steve and avara
opened the living food lab on campus. steve spent the last three years looking for land mines in cambodia. he found a lot. the business was influencedby the model of green school. now we have deliciousraw food for the kids, and a place that inspiresa healthy community. how many of you eat rice? put your hands up.this is up.
should be everybody, right? keep your hand upif the rice you eat is brown. oh, oh. do you realize that all rice is brown? the nutritional valueis stripped off in your rice mills and given to these guys. [pigs] (laugher) they're really healthy. how do you feel?
at the green school, kids plant rice. they harvest it and they eat it brown, and they go home and telltheir parents that it's brown. whole food - it's our core value, and it keeps making the community better,healthier and stronger. this is what we’re doingin the parking lot. think about the parking lot. it's important. we're going to grow food over every car,
and the parents and kidswill be able to pick it and take it home to eat. we're calling it "guerrilla parking lot." and in that same parking lot, i met eric scotto of akuo energy in paris. this is what he does.he takes whole islands off the grid. he loves this schooland he promised to do that for us too. 108 solar panels arrived at the school. and be careful what you wish for,
because what do you do with108 solar panels and a beautiful school? eric allowed us to do somethingthat's never been done before. he allowed us to place the solar panelsin a way that fitted in with the school. we floated them along the contour. we put them on bamboo poles. they are almost as efficientas the ones on the steel rack. and together, we made solar beautiful. this is the battery bank for the solarenergy, green school style. we stacked up the batteries in a curve.
we built the bamboo house to protect them. we put it in the gardenbetween the eggplants and the corn. we are workingon a carbon positive community. everybody at the schoolwas driving miles to get to an atm. our bank gave us an atm, and agreed for usto put it in a bamboo house. bank international indonesiais the proud owner of the worlds first solar powered,bamboo atm, bolted to a rock.
they sent the cement truckover to make it safe, and we said, "we've got a rock, we're fine." putu witsen, green school pioneer, has reinvented traditionalmartial arts in our mud pits. it's become indonesian-wide. it was on the front coverof the jakarta post. kids love getting dirty at school. can you imagine? and the yoga momsare getting into the mud as well.
ok, here goes the next one. the effect that green school is havingon the kids is most important. these kids are the future, and they're starting businessesand making change now, not just in bali, but also beyond bali. take this guy out. it's bamboo. don't lose it. it's good...
for a free lunch when you comeand visit the school. (cheers; applause) it's made by a company called bubam. it was founded by one of ourscholarship students, gika, and her friends.it's on facebook, "bubam." this is our gift to you. one day, my 11-year-old, chiara,came to me and said, “dad, there needs to be ipadsin the library.†and i said, "chiara, the moneytree is just that way; go find it."
she didn't go looking for the money tree, she went to the local ice cream store, remember, she's 11, convinced them to sell herice cream wholesale. the kids sell the ice cream at recess, and with all the profit, they put seven ipads in the library. this is mike. he was almost pulled out of the show.
he makes soap. organic soap. his grandma kept giving him hankiesand socks for birthday, and he was tired of that,so he makes the perfect present for grandmas to giveto teenage boys: soap. get them clean. the boys love it, but the twist is, he makes it in the shapeof things that boys want: brass knuckles, hand grenades,
many other designs are coming. our star student, izzy, went back to her quaker schoolin rhode island. she was at green school for one term. there she started a revolution. she created the firstcompost in her school. she's changed foreverand her community is composting. the green school dreamhas evolved into a reality. the amazing buildingsfull of adults and children
are taking actionbeyond any dreams i ever had. a real education. so, here we are in taiwan. big city. the dream is to builda bridge from green school to your community,to communities all over the world. the green school effectcan happen anywhere. just one simple thing: you make the roof high,
and you let your peoplegrow into the space. one last gift. it's a test. we’re a school. it is a magic bean. please take out your magic bean. it's got something to dowith a guy named jack. you have a choice: you can leave it - it's in its packet;
you can toss it; you can eat it; or you can go find some dirt and plant it, and grow more beans. i know you'll make the right decision. you’ve been givena lot of possibilities today. let's go.
translator: ted translators adminreviewer: rhonda jacobs i'm here, courtesy of a coconut. eight weeks ago,i woke up on monday morning, i didn't go to work.i don't have a job. i went walking in the forest,and i heard a: "hu, hu, hu,"
bali today, and a coconut hit me in the face. (laughter) broke my nose, bashed in my eye,cracked my skull, and worse than that,it pushed me off a high ridge
and i landed on a rock 25 feets below. i broke my ribs in 17 places. i was very lucky. i was sitting thereand it was like a bad movie, a bad cowboy moviewhere you cough up blood and that's the end. and i was very happy it wasn't the end. i went through a world of pain,more morphine than i ever want to have, and i'm here.
i'm very happy to be here. (applause) thank you. last week, the balinese priestfound my soul beside the river, and he put it back in my body and this little string is hereto remind me that my soul is back, and all i can do now is continue the work. how many of you have been to bali? how many of you want to go to bali?
i'm in a good crowd. you've got a packet, i hope. and i hope in your packetyou have this stuff - the grass. don't smoke it. put it between your hands, both hands, and rub, really hard. some people didn't get grass. everybody got grass; ok, good. now rub hard, and then do this.
now you know what bali smells like. the little packet,keep your little packet, there's more little trickswe're going to do because i wantto connect you to bali today. it’s been five yearssince i started green school. and it’s a giant bamboo school with a new approachto sustainable architecture. you saw it being built. when we started, we understood thatthe only way to make this school work
was we had to attract peopleand build a community. that's the green school bridge. it's our icon.it was our first building. it has only been washed awayonce by global warming, but it's back, it's strongerand it's better. green school is working. it's a success. we have 250 kids from 40 countries. and 10% of the kids at the schoolare local balinese kids on scholarship.
the plan, the intention, is 20%, and we will get there. these kids are gettingan amazing education, and... they're smiling. how many of you smiled at school? i didn't. what’s happening is called"the green school effect," and it's taken holdand it’s becoming a reality. in the five years that this schoolhas been running,
we've discovered a number of things, and that's what i'm goingto tell you about today, things that have happened at green school. the extraordinary thing is that people seepictures of green school and they decide to move therebefore they know it's in bali. and when you tellyour wife or your husband you're moving to a bamboo schooland you can't even tell them where it is - we've created quite a lotof marital discontent.
some people have taken three yearsto get to green school because they’re draggingtheir mate along behind them. but this is real power. the extraordinary senseof space and design at green school has inspired many things far beyond it. this beautiful bamboo homewas built by a woman who was working in new yorkjust couldn't make a difference. didn't get it. my eldest daughter elora returned to bali
and created an artisan-basedbamboo building company. it's called ibuku. "ibu" - "mom;" "ku" - "mine." my mother, your mother, and the big mother: mother earth. the same artisans who built green school are now building green village. and they are teaching usto do things differently. they build 3-d modelsout of bamboo sticks,
they engineer them, and they becomehand-built, bespoke houses. the results are natural, beautiful space that changes the behaviorof the people that live in them. who wouldn’t be inspired waking up in this house? the green school effect is spreading. developers from all over the worldare running around. you've seen them,
looking for the next thing. they come to green school. this project is beingbuilt by indonesians. it will be the greenest hotel in the worldand it's entirely made of bamboo. who wouldn’t want to check in here? physicality, irresistibility. people will be making reservationsbefore they know where the hotel is. these kids making chocolate. where is the chocolate?
uh oh. take the chocolate. take off the plastic. sorry about the plastic. put it in your mouth, don't gobble it; just let it melt on your tongue. this is chocolate from bali,the taste of bali, the smell, the taste. these green school kidsare making chocolate by hand. and then green school parent benand his partner freddy
decided to make a lot of chocolate with this antique machine. raw chocolate. they built this factory near the school. they chose bamboo. the world’s biggest bamboo factory. raw chocolate for everyone. the health benefits are huge. you just took enough antioxidantsto last you all week,
which is a problemif you want to sell more chocolate. every week you need one. the school is changing the parents. the parents are usuallytrying to change the school. this father wanted an amazingcup of fresh coffee, and this is how he did it. he went with this buddynyoman to the mountain. he found organic beans.he brought them home. he roasted them behind his house by hand,
and he started a little companycalled freak coffee. a business based on fresh roast. this year he opened three shops - coffee is world class. you can taste it when youcome to the school for lunch. he’s teaching green school studentsabout local business, and he's teaching them to be baristas. this is one of our students. green school parents steve and avara
opened the living food lab on campus. steve spent the last three years looking for land mines in cambodia. he found a lot. the business was influencedby the model of green school. now we have deliciousraw food for the kids, and a place that inspiresa healthy community. how many of you eat rice? put your hands up.this is up.
should be everybody, right? keep your hand upif the rice you eat is brown. oh, oh. do you realize that all rice is brown? the nutritional valueis stripped off in your rice mills and given to these guys. [pigs] (laugher) they're really healthy. how do you feel?
at the green school, kids plant rice. they harvest it and they eat it brown, and they go home and telltheir parents that it's brown. whole food - it's our core value, and it keeps making the community better,healthier and stronger. this is what we’re doingin the parking lot. think about the parking lot. it's important. we're going to grow food over every car,
and the parents and kidswill be able to pick it and take it home to eat. we're calling it "guerrilla parking lot." and in that same parking lot, i met eric scotto of akuo energy in paris. this is what he does.he takes whole islands off the grid. he loves this schooland he promised to do that for us too. 108 solar panels arrived at the school. and be careful what you wish for,
because what do you do with108 solar panels and a beautiful school? eric allowed us to do somethingthat's never been done before. he allowed us to place the solar panelsin a way that fitted in with the school. we floated them along the contour. we put them on bamboo poles. they are almost as efficientas the ones on the steel rack. and together, we made solar beautiful. this is the battery bank for the solarenergy, green school style. we stacked up the batteries in a curve.
we built the bamboo house to protect them. we put it in the gardenbetween the eggplants and the corn. we are workingon a carbon positive community. everybody at the schoolwas driving miles to get to an atm. our bank gave us an atm, and agreed for usto put it in a bamboo house. bank international indonesiais the proud owner of the worlds first solar powered,bamboo atm, bolted to a rock.
they sent the cement truckover to make it safe, and we said, "we've got a rock, we're fine." putu witsen, green school pioneer, has reinvented traditionalmartial arts in our mud pits. it's become indonesian-wide. it was on the front coverof the jakarta post. kids love getting dirty at school. can you imagine? and the yoga momsare getting into the mud as well.
ok, here goes the next one. the effect that green school is havingon the kids is most important. these kids are the future, and they're starting businessesand making change now, not just in bali, but also beyond bali. take this guy out. it's bamboo. don't lose it. it's good...
for a free lunch when you comeand visit the school. (cheers; applause) it's made by a company called bubam. it was founded by one of ourscholarship students, gika, and her friends.it's on facebook, "bubam." this is our gift to you. one day, my 11-year-old, chiara,came to me and said, “dad, there needs to be ipadsin the library.†and i said, "chiara, the moneytree is just that way; go find it."
she didn't go looking for the money tree, she went to the local ice cream store, remember, she's 11, convinced them to sell herice cream wholesale. the kids sell the ice cream at recess, and with all the profit, they put seven ipads in the library. this is mike. he was almost pulled out of the show.
he makes soap. organic soap. his grandma kept giving him hankiesand socks for birthday, and he was tired of that,so he makes the perfect present for grandmas to giveto teenage boys: soap. get them clean. the boys love it, but the twist is, he makes it in the shapeof things that boys want: brass knuckles, hand grenades,
many other designs are coming. our star student, izzy, went back to her quaker schoolin rhode island. she was at green school for one term. there she started a revolution. she created the firstcompost in her school. she's changed foreverand her community is composting. the green school dreamhas evolved into a reality. the amazing buildingsfull of adults and children
are taking actionbeyond any dreams i ever had. a real education. so, here we are in taiwan. big city. the dream is to builda bridge from green school to your community,to communities all over the world. the green school effectcan happen anywhere. just one simple thing: you make the roof high,
and you let your peoplegrow into the space. one last gift. it's a test. we’re a school. it is a magic bean. please take out your magic bean. it's got something to dowith a guy named jack. you have a choice: you can leave it - it's in its packet;
you can toss it; you can eat it; or you can go find some dirt and plant it, and grow more beans. i know you'll make the right decision. you’ve been givena lot of possibilities today. let's go.