Modeled after the original Green School in Bali, the famed institution’s newest location in Tulum is set to open in September of 2021, providing a progressive learning experience that is designed to ignite the natural curiosity of children and create communities that blend a love of wilderness with comfort and sustainability. Described as a “school without walls”, the Green School in Tulumwill encourage innovation and creativity, with a commitment to “educating for sustainability in a natural environment through our purpose-driven communication”,
What is Green School International?
Conceptualized by environmental activist John Hardy and his wife Cynthia in 2008, the original Green School in Bali opened with just 90 students in the Indonesian jungle. The entire premises is almost entirely constructed from bamboo, which is an environmentally-friendly building material and even has a room dedicated to yoga classes. The overarching design concept for the school was to create learning spaces without walls built using materials that are both beautiful and sustainable.
The Green School in Bali provides extraordinary opportunities for both local and international students, with no plastic bags to be found anywhere on campus and a carbon negative footprint, the school generates both solar and hydroelectricity on site. Students also learn how to recycle, care for a garden, cook, and take care of animals. Today, the original Green School has more than 400 students who learn holistic wisdom in four areas: Emotional, Intellectual, Physical, and Expressive. In 2020, the second Green School will open in New Zealand, and afterward Hardy plans to embark on a new project in Tulum.
“We educate for sustainability, through community-integrated, entrepreneurial learning, in a wall-less, natural environment”, wrote the Green School on its website. “Our holistic, student-guided approach inspires and empowers us to be change-makers”.
Green School International is dedicated to educating for sustainability, imparting world-class education in an entrepreneurial-based learning environment. The schools are also characterized by innovative buildings designed by some of the world’s most pre-eminent architectural firms. In Tulum, the school will be surrounded by the lush jungle near the ancient Mayan ruins and pristine white-sand beach, with easy access to the exclusive residential community of Aldea Zamá
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