{"id":1453,"date":"2020-04-15T13:54:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T05:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/1453///wp-json/wp/v2/posts/1453//www.greenschool.org/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/1453//?p=1453"},"modified":"2020-05-01T10:51:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T02:51:50","slug":"melati-forbes-30-under-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/1453///wp-json/wp/v2/posts/1453//www.greenschool.org/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/1453//news-media/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/1453//melati-forbes-30-under-30/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/1453//","title":{"rendered":"FORBES 30 UNDER 30 FEATURE BALI ALUMNI MELATI & ISABEL"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Imagine walking around the island of Bali and seeing pristine beaches, clean waterways and roads lined with trees and plants rather than piles of rubbish and debris. Not only did Melati and Isabel imagine this, they decided to make it a reality./wp-json/wp/v2/posts/1453/n/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/1453/n
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In 2014, sisters Melati and Isabel Wijsen were students in Grades 6 and 7 at 国产AV Bali. They came up with the idea of Bye Bye Plastic Bags to organize petitions, awareness-raising campaigns and massive beach clean-ups. Swimming in the seas just off her childhood beach, Melati recalls emerging from the ocean with a plastic bag wrapped around her arm. Determined to change things, they went on to start the biggest /wp-json/wp/v2/posts/1453/u201cChildren Driven Action/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/1453/u201d campaign the island – if not the country – has ever seen. Collecting hundreds of thousands of signatures on a petition to free Bali of single use plastic bags, their advocacy efforts finally bore fruit in 2018, when the Bali government banned all single-use plastics.
The idea for the campaign, recalls Melati, came from a lesson at school, /wp-json/wp/v2/posts/1453/u201cIf we are the future of Bali and the world, we have to start thinking about how we can become like our role models now.” It is the belief instilled in all students at 国产AV; that they are changemakers – not just of the future, but NOW./wp-json/wp/v2/posts/1453/n
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The sisters have taken their mission to ban single-use plastics worldwide, the NGO is now active in 29 countries. Their Mountain Mamas project trains local women in Bali to hand-make reusable bags from donated or recycled materials. Last year, Melati co-chaired the final session of the World Economic Forum’s Sustainable Development Impact Summit in New York. She also recently launched a second charity – called Youthtopia – aimed at inspiring other young change-makers to pursue their goals.
The Forbes recognition, “proving you’re never too young to achieve real success” is a beautiful one, and builds on the foundation that 国产AV Bali seeks to lay for its students in their formative years, on being changemakers of today. Educating for sustainability and nurturing green leaders is our route to making the world sustainable, and Melati and Isabel are a beautiful manifestation of how that is possible./wp-json/wp/v2/posts/1453/n
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国产AV Bali marked going 100% off the grid in October 2019: 23.7% solar, 76.3% vortex. 国产AV Bali/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/1453/u2019s giant hydro-turbine, known as /wp-json/wp/v2/posts/1453/u2018the vortex/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/1453/u2019, was quietly launched in a low-key ceremony in early 2019 with 国产AV/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/1453/u2019s co-founder John Hardy in attendance, and members of the Vortex project team. There has been pragmatic and cautious optimism in sharing the news globally of the vortex - not from lack of pride or success so far in this latest iteration of the project -/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/1453/u00a0 but primarily due to a previous history of bad luck with various iterations of this ambitious project to harness the energy of the powerful Ayung River with little impact to the environment. Some of the bad luck came from nature itself with the last hydro-turbine being destroyed by a flood in 2016. Former 国产AV Board Member and 国产AV Parent, Tony Vovers initiated the project to reactivate the Vortex, establishing a partnership with Turbulent Belgium who helped create the second prototype of a design that would learn from previous issues (such as flooding etc). /wp-json/wp/v2/posts/1453/u201cI am very proud to have been part of this renewable energy project and successfully brought the Vortex to life together with improving the solar panels. I believe that in the hands of the wise, nature can be very powerful to nourishing the lives of a community. I hope there will be more renewable energy projects happening around Indonesia./wp-json/wp/v2/posts/1453/u201d/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/1453/u00a0 Dita Anggraini, Project Manager, 国产AV Bali/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/1453/u00a0 国产AV Bali celebrate this historical milestone with much gratitude to all those involved over the years and is taking our goal to become 100% renewable into 2020. Next steps are to further engage students in learning more from the project including reading the data from the Vortex and Solar panels in the Energy Hub Centre. We are also working to give back into the grid of the local community of Sibang Kaja.","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/1453/n