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: "hu, hu, hu"

and a coconut hit me in the face

broke my nose, bashed my eyes, cracked my skull

and worst than that, that push 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 there. It was like a bad movie

a bad cult movie where you have coughed 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 and more thin than I ever want to have

than I am here, I'm very happy to be here.

thank you

Last week, the Balinese priest

found my soul beside the river

and he put it back in my body

and this little string is here

to 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?

That's it, I'm in a good crowd

You've got a packet I hope

and I hope in your packet you have this stuff

The grass. Don't smoke it

put it between your hands, both hands,

and rub, really hard.

sompeople didn't get grass.

everybody got grass, good.

now rub hard, and than do this.

now, you know, what Bali smells like.

The little packet, keep your little packet

there is more little tricks we're going to do

because I want to connect you to Bali today.

It’s been 5 years since I started Green School.

and it’s a giant bamboo school with a new approach

to sustainable architecture used are being buit.

When we started, we understood that

the only way to make this school work

was we had to attract people and build a community

That's the Green School Bridge. It's our icon,

and it's our first building.

It has only been washed away once by global warming,

but it's back, and it' stronger and better

Green School is working. It's a success.

We have 250 kids from 40 countries.

and 10% of kids in school

are local Balinese kids on scholarship

The plan, the intention is 20%

and we'll get that

These kids are getting an 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 has taken hold and it’s becoming a reality.

In the 5 years that the school has been running,

we have discovered a number of things

and that's what I'm going to tell you about today

things that have happened at Green School

The extraordinary thing is that

people see pictures of Green School

and they decide to move there before they know it's in Bali.

and when you tell your wife or your husband

you're moving to a bamboo school

and you can't even tell them where it is.

we've created quite a lot of marital discontent

some people have taken three years to get to Green School

because they’re dragging their mates along behind them

but this is real power.

The extraordinary sense of space and design at Green School

has inspired many things far beyond it.

This beautiful bamboo home was built by a woman

who was working in New York

just couldn't make it different, didn't get it

My eldest daughter Elora returned to Bali

and created an artisan-based bamboo building company.

It is called Ibuku.

"Ibu" means "mom," "Ku" is "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 us to do things differently.

They build 3D models out of bamboo sticks

they engineered them,

and they become hand-built bespoke houses.

The results are natural, beautiful spaces

that change the behavior of people living in them.

Who wouldn’t be inspired,

waking up in this house.

The Green School Effect is spreading.

Developers from all over the world are running around

you've seen them,

looking for the next thing.

They come to Green School.

This project is being built by Indonesians

it will be the greenest hotel in the world

and it's entirely made from bamboo.

Who wouldn’t want to check in here?

Physicality, irresistibility.

People will be making reservations

before they know where the hotel is.

These kids making chocolate.

(where is the chocolate?)

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 that tastes like Bali

These Green School kids are making chocolate by hand.

And then Green School parent Ben and his partner Freddy

decided to make a lot of chocolate

with this antique machine.

Raw chocolate.

They built a factory near the school

and they chose bamboo.

The world’s biggest bamboo factory.

Raw chocolate for everyone.

The health benefits are huge.

You've just took enough antioxidant that last of your all week

which is a problem if you want some more chocolate

every week you need one.

The School is changing the parents.

The parents usually are trying to change the school

This father wanted an amazing cup of fresh coffee

and this is how he did it.

He went with this buddy Nyoman to the mountain

he found organic beans, he brought them home

he roasted them behind this house by hand

and he started a little company called Freak Coffee

A business based on fresh roast

This year he opened 3 shops,

and the coffee is world class

you can taste it when you come to the school for lunch

He’s teaching Green School students about local business

and he is 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 3 years

looking for land mines in Cambodia.

He found a lot.

This business was influenced by the model of Green school.

Now we have delicious raw food for the kids

and a place that inspires a healthy community.

How many of you eat rice? Put your hands up.

Should be everybody, right?

Keep your hand up if Is the rice you eat is brown.

oh, oh.

Do you realize that all rice is brown?

The nutritional value is stripped off in your rice mills

and given to these guys (pigs)

They’re really healthy. How do you feel?

At Green School, kids plant rice.

They harvest it and they eat it brown

and they go home and tell their parents that it's brown

Whole food is our core value, and it keeps

making the community better, healthier, and stronger.

This is what we’re doing our parking lot.

Think about the parking lot.

It is important.

We are going to grow food over every car

and the parents and kids will 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 from Akuo Energy in Paris.

This is what he does. He takes whole islands off the grid.

He loves this school

and he promises 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 is

108 solar panels and a beautiful school

Eric allowed us to do something

that has never been done before.

Eric allowed us to place the solar panels

in a way that fitted in with the school.

We floated them along a contour,

we put them on bamboo poles.

They are almost as efficient as the one on the steel rack

and together, we made solars beautiful

This is the battery bank for the solar energy,

Green School style

We stacked up the batteries in a curve

we built a bamboo house to protect them

we put it in the garden

between the eggplants and the corn

We’re working on a carbon positive community.

Everybody at this school was driving miles to get to an ATM.

Our bank gave us an ATM,

and agreed to let us put it in a bamboo house.

Bank International Indonesia is the proud owner of

the worlds first solar powered bamboo ATM

bolted to a rock.

They send this cement truck over to make it safe

and we said we got a rock, we're fine.

Putu Witsen, Green School pioneer

has reinvented traditional martial arts in our mud pits.

It's become an Indonesia-wide and it was on the

front cover of Jakarta Post

Kids love getting dirty at school.

Can you imagine?

and the yoga moms are getting into the mud as well

Okay, here goes the next one,

The effect that Green School is having on the kids

is the most important.

These kids are the future,

and they are starting businesses and 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.

It's for a free lunch when you come and visit the school.

It is made by a company called Bubam

which was founded by one of our scholarship students Gika

and her friends. It's on Facebook "Bubam".

This is our gift to you.

One day, my 11 year old daughter Chiara came to me

and said: “Dad, there should be iPads in the library.”

and I said: "Chiara, the money tree is just that way,

go find it."

She didn't go looking for a money tree,

she went to the local ice cream store

remember, she is 11

convinced them to sell her ice cream at wholesale.

The kids sell the ice cream at recess and with the profit,

they’ve put all the profits

they put 7 iPads in the library.

This is Mike.

He was almost pulled out to the show,

He makes soap. Organic Soap.

His grandmom kept giving him hankies and socks for birthday

and he was tired of that

so he makes the perfect presents for grandmas

to give the teenage boys: soap

get them clean.

the boys love it, but the twist is,

he makes it in the shapes of things boys want

brass knuckles and hand grenades

many other designs are coming

Our star students, Izzy,

went back to her Quaker school in Rhode Island

She was at Green School for one term.

There she started a revolution.

She created the first compost in her school.