John Hardy: My green school dream

翻译人员: Jean Wang 校对人员: Xu Jiang

I grew up

我在加拿大的

in a very small village in Canada,

一所小村庄长大,

and I'm an undiagnosed

同时我也有未确疹的

dyslexic.

阅读障碍症.

I had a really hard time in school.

所以我在上学时相当的困难。

In fact, my mother told me eventually

确切地说, 我母亲最后告诉我

that I was the little kid in the village

我是村里那个

who cried all the way to school.

总是一路哭着到学校的小孩儿.

I ran away.

我选择了离开.

I left when I was 25 years old to go to Bali,

25岁的时候我去了巴厘岛.

and there I met my incredible wife, Cynthia,

在那儿我遇到了我那不可思议的妻子, Cynthia,

and together, over 20 years,

并在一起20多年了.

we built an amazing jewelry business.

我们创立了一个令人惊羡的珠宝业.

It was a fairy tale, and then we retired.

就象个童话, 接着我们退休了.

Then she took me to see a film

之后她带我去看了部电影

that I really didn't want to see.

我实际上不想看的.

It ruined my life --

它毁了我的人生 --

(Laughter)

(一阵笑声)

"The Inconvenient Truth" and Mr. Gore.

"难以忽视的真相” 还有戈尔先生.

I have four kids,

我有四个孩子,

and even if part of what he says is true,

即使他所说的只有一部分是真的,

they're not going to have the life that I had.

他们也不会拥有我曾经有过的生活.

And I decided at that moment

在那一刻, 我做了决定

that I would spend the rest of my life

我将用我的余生

doing whatever I could

尽我所能

to improve their possibilities.

去增加他们的机会.

So here's the world,

这是全世界,

and here we are in Bali.

这里是我们的所在地, 巴厘岛.

It's a tiny, little island --

它是个极小、极小的小岛 --

60 miles by 90 miles.

60英里乘90英里.

It has an intact Hindu culture.

岛上的文化是原汁原味的印度教。

Cynthia and I were there.

Cynthia 和我曾经住在那儿.

We had had a wonderful life there,

在那里我们曾经过着完美的生活,

and we decided to do something unusual.

然后我们决定做点儿与众不同的事情.

We decided to give back

我们决定回馈给

locally.

当地的人.

And here it is: it's called the Green School.

这就是, 绿色环保学校.

I know it doesn't look like a school,

我知道它看上去不像个学校,

but it is something we decided to do,

但这是我们所决定做的,

and it is extremely,

而且它非常,

extremely green.

非常环保.

The classrooms have no walls.

教室之间没有墙.

The teacher is writing on a bamboo blackboard.

教师在竹制的黑板上教课.

The desks are not square.

书桌不是方的.

At Green School, the children are smiling --

在绿色环保学校里, 孩子们都在笑 --

an unusual thing for school, especially for me.

这是在学校里一件不寻常的事请, 尤其是对我而言.

And we practice holism.

而且我们实践整体论.

And for me it's just the idea

对我来说这就是个想法,

that, if this little girl

如果一个小女孩,

graduates as a whole person,

发展成一个完整的人,

chances are

很有可能

she'll demand a whole world --

她需要靠整个世界 --

a whole world --

整个世界 --

to live on.

为生.

Our children spend 181 days

我们的孩子们花181天

going to school in a box.

在这个盒子里上学.

The people that built my school

建造我学校的人

also built the prison and the insane asylum

同时也用同样的材料

out of the same materials.

建造了监狱和疯人院。

So if this gentleman

所以, 如果这位先生

had had a holistic education,

接受过全人教育,

would he be sitting there?

他还会坐在这儿吗?

Would he have had more possibilities in his life?

他会有更多的机遇吗?

The classrooms have natural light.

教室采用自然光。

They're beautiful. They're bamboo.

它们很美. 它们是竹子.

The breeze passes through them.

微风从中穿过.

And when the natural breeze isn't enough,

当天然的微风不够时,

the kids deploy bubbles,

孩子们就会放泡泡,

but not the kind of bubbles you know.

不过不是你所想的那种泡泡.

These bubbles are made from natural cotton

这些气泡是由天然棉花和

and rubber from the rubber tree.

来自橡胶树的橡胶做成的.

So we basically turned the box

所以我们基本上把这个盒子变成了

into a bubble.

一个泡泡.

And these kids know

而且这些孩子们懂得

that painless climate control

不费力的气候控制

may not be

可能不是

part of their future.

他们未来的一部分.

We pay the bill at the end of the month,

我们每个月底付账单,

but the people that are really going to pay the bill

但是真正付账单的人

are our grandchildren.

是我们的子孙.

We have to teach the kids

我们要教给孩子们

that the world is not indestructible.

世界不是不可毁灭的.

These kids did a little graffiti on their desks,

这几个孩子在书桌上画了些涂鸦,

and then they signed up for two extra courses.

那他们得多上两门课.

The first one was called sanding

第一门叫砂纸打磨.

and the second one was called re-waxing.

第二门叫再次上蜡.

But since that happened,

但自从那件事,

they own those desks.

他们拥有了那些书桌.

They know they can control their world.

他们知道他们可以掌控他们的世界.

We're on the grid. We're not proud of it.

我们用电网; 我们不引以为荣.

But an amazing alternative energy company in Paris

但一个了不起的巴黎能源替代公司

is taking us off the grid with solar.

将帮我们用太阳能替代了电网.

And this thing

还有这个东西,

is the second vortex to be built in the world,

是世界上即将建造的第二个涡轮发电机,

in a two-and-a-half meter drop on a river.

在高达2.5米落差的一条河中.

When the turbine drops in,

当涡轮机降入时,

it will produce 8,000 watts of electricity,

它会产8,000瓦的电力,

day and night.

不分昼夜。

And you know what these are.

你们知道这些是什么.

There's nowhere to flush.

这里没地方冲厕所.

And as long as we're taking our waste

但是只要我们把废料

and mixing it with a huge amount of water --

和大量的水混在一起 --

you're all really smart, just do the math.

你们都很聪明, 算算吧.

How many people times how much water.

多少个人乘以多少水.

There isn't enough water.

根本没有足够的水.

These are compost toilets,

这些是堆肥厕所.

and nobody at the school wanted to know about them,

学校里没人想知道它们.

especially the principal.

特别是校长.

And they work. People use them. People are okay.

但是它们管用; 大家会使用它们, 而且大家都没问题.

It's something you should think about doing.

你们也应该考虑一下这么做.

Not many things didn't work.

没有很多东西不管用.

The beautiful canvas and rubber skylights

漂亮的的帆布和橡胶天窗

got eaten by the sun in six months.

在六个月内就被太阳毁掉了.

We had to replace them with recyclable plastic.

我们只得换上可循环再用的塑料.

The teachers dragged giant PVC whiteboards

教师们拖着巨大的聚氯乙烯白板

into the classrooms.

进入教室,

So we had some good ideas:

我们有些好点子.

we took old automobile windshields, put paper behind them

我们找来些旧的挡风玻璃, 把纸铁在背后

and created the first alternative

就做成了白板的

to the whiteboard.

第一个替代品.

Green School sits in south-central Bali,

绿色环保学校位于巴厘岛中南方,

and it's on 20 acres

在一个有20英亩那么大的

of rolling garden.

延绵起伏的花园里.

There's an amazing river traveling through it,

还有一条壮丽的河流穿过,

and you can see there

你们可以从这儿看到

how we manage to get across the river.

我们是怎么过河的.

I met a father the other day; he looked a little crazed.

有一天我接待了一位父亲, 他看起来有点疯狂.

I said, "Welcome to Green School."

我说, "欢迎来到绿色学校."

He said, "I've been on an airplane for 24 hours."

他说, "我在飞机上待了24个小时."

I asked him, "Why?"

我问他, "为什么?"

He said, "I had a dream once about a green school,

他说, "我曾有过一个关于绿色学校的梦,

and I saw a picture of this green school,

然后我看到一张这所绿色学校的照片,

I got on an airplane.

我就上飞机了.

In August I'm bringing my sons."

八月份我将带我的儿子们来."

This was a great thing.

这是个了不起的事情.

But more than that,

但更重要的是,

people are building green houses around Green School,

大家在绿色学校周围建起绿色房屋,

so their kids can walk to school on the paths.

这样一来他们的孩子们可以走路上学.

And people are bringing their green industries,

人们还带上了他们的绿色工业,

hopefully their green restaurants,

希望还有他们的绿色餐饮业,

to the Green School.

到绿色学校来.

It's becoming a community.

这里变成了一个社区.

It's becoming a green model.

变成了一个绿色环保的模范社区.

We had to look at everything.

我们得注意每一件事.

No petrochemicals in the pavement.

铺过的路面不能有石油化学产品.

No pavement.

没有铺过的路.

These are volcanic stones laid by hand.

这些是用手铺的火山石。

There are no sidewalks.

没有人行道.

The sidewalks are gravel. They flood when it rains,

人行道全是碎石路, 下雨时会淹.

but they're green.

但它们绿色环保.

This is the school buffalo.

这是学校的水牛.

He's planning to eat that fence for dinner.

它正计划把那栅栏当晚餐.

All the fences at Green School are green.

所有绿色学校的栅栏都是绿色环保的.

And when the kindergarten kids

最近当学前班的孩子们

recently moved their gate,

搬动了他们的大门

they found out the fence was made out of tapioca.

他们发现栅栏是用木薯做的.

They took the tapioca roots up to the kitchen,

他们把木薯根带回厨房,

sliced them thinly and made delicious chips.

切成薄片然后做成美味的木薯片.

Landscaping.

景观美化

We manage to keep the garden that was there

我们想办法保留住在每个教室周围已经存在的

running right up to the edge of each of the classrooms.

花园。

We dropped them gently in.

我们轻轻的把它们放进来.

We made space for these guys

我们为这些家伙创造了空间

who are Bali's last black pigs.

这些巴厘岛上最后的黑猪.

And the school cow

还有学校的母牛

is trying to figure out

也想方设法地

how to replace the lawnmower

要代替运动场上的

on the playing field.

锄草机。

These young ladies

这些年轻的女孩子

are living in a rice culture,

生在一个以水稻为生的文化中,

but they know something that few people know in a rice culture.

但她们知道一些鲜为人知的关于水稻的知识.

They know how to plant organic rice,

她们懂得怎么栽种有机米,

they know how to look after it,

她们懂得怎么照顾它,

they know how to harvest and they know how to cook it.

她们懂得怎么收割和煮饭

They're part of the rice cycle

她们成为水稻周期的一部分.

and these skills will be valuable

而且这将是她们在未来的

for them in their future.

宝贵技能。

This young man is picking organic vegetables.

这个年轻人正在采摘一些有机蔬菜.

We feed 400 people lunch every day

我们每天为400人供应午餐.

and it's not a normal lunch. There's no gas.

这可不是普通的午餐; 不靠煤气.

Local Balinese women

巴厘岛上当地的妇女们

cook the food on sawdust burners

靠烧锯末来烹调食物

using secrets that only their grandmothers know.

利用只有她们祖母才知道的秘密.

The food is incredible.

做出来的食物非常的好吃.

Green School is a place of pioneers,

绿色学校是个先行者的所在地,

local and global.

在地方上和全球上.

And it's a kind of microcosm

它也是一种全球化世界

of the globalized world.

的缩影.

The kids are from 25 countries.

这些孩子们来自25个国家.

When I see them together,

当我看他们在一起的时候,

I know that they're working out

我知道他们正努力学习

how to live in the future.

在未来怎么生活.

Green School is going into its third year

绿色学校即将步入它的第三年

with 160 children.

有160个孩子.

It's a school where you do learn reading --

它是个你可以学习阅读 --

one of my favorites --

我的最爱之一 --

writing -- I was bad at it --

写作 -- 虽然我很不擅长 --

arithmetic.

算术.

But you also learn other things.

但你也能学到其他的东西.

You learn bamboo building.

你会学会用竹子建造.

You practice

你会练习

ancient Balinese arts.

古老的巴厘艺术.

This is called mud wrestling in the rice fields.

这叫做水稻田里的泥巴摔跤.

The kids love it.

孩子们爱死它了.

The mothers aren't quite convinced.

虽然他们的母亲们尚未被说服.

(Laughter)

(一阵笑声)

We've done a lot of outrageous things in our lives,

我们一生中做过很多令人惊讶的事情,

and we said, okay, local, what does "local" mean?

接着我们说, 好吧, 当地. 当地是什么意思?

Local means

当地的意思是

that 20 percent of the population of the school

学校里20%的人

has to be Balinese,

必须是巴厘岛人.

and this was a really big commitment.

这是个很大的承诺.

And we were right.

但我们是正确的.

And people are coming forward

大家都从世界各地

from all over the world

纷纷前来

to support the Balinese Scholarship Fund,

援助巴厘岛人奖学金,

because these kids will be Bali's next green leaders.

因为这些孩子将成为巴厘岛下一代的绿色环保带头人.

The teachers are as diverse

教师们也是同样的多元化,

as the student body,

和学生一样.

and the amazing thing

激动人心的事是

is that volunteers are popping up.

志愿者不断的涌现出来.

A man came from Java

一名来自爪哇的男子

with a new kind of organic agriculture.

带来一种新的有机农艺.

A woman came from Africa with music.

一位来自非洲的女子带来了音乐.

And together these volunteers and the teachers

这些教师和志愿者们

are deeply committed

有着坚定的信念

to creating a new generation

要创造新一代的

of global, green leaders.

全球性的, 绿色环保的领袖人物.

The Green School effect --

绿色学校效应 --

we don't know what it is.

我们不知道具体是什么.

We need someone to come and study it.

我们需要有人来研究它.

But what's happening, our learning-different kids --

但事实上, 学习方式不同的孩子们 --

dyslexic --

阅读困难症 --

we've renamed them prolexic --

我们重新给他们起名为强化阅读 --

are doing well in these beautiful, beautiful classrooms.

在这些非常美丽的课堂里学得很棒.

And all the kids are thriving.

所有的孩子们都在茁壮成长.

And how did we do all this?

我们是怎么做到的呢?

On giant grass.

利用巨大的草.

It's bamboo.

那就是竹子.

It comes out of the ground like a train.

它就像火车一样从地里冲出来.

It grows as high as a coconut tree in two months

它能在两个月内长得和椰子树一样高.

and three years later it can be harvested

而且三年后就可以采割

to build buildings like this.

用来造这样的建筑.

It's as strong and dense as teak

它和柚木一样结实, 密集.

and it will hold up any roof.

可以支撑起任何屋顶.

When the architects came, they brought us these things,

当建筑师来后, 他们带来了这些东西,

and you've probably seen things like this.

你们可能见过类似的东西.

The yellow box was called the administration complex.

这个黄色的盒子叫行政办公区.

(Laughter)

(一阵笑声)

We squashed it, we rethought it,

我们把它压扁了, 重新考虑了一下,

but mainly we renamed it

但主要是我们给它改名 --

"the heart of school,"

学校之心.

and that changed everything forever.

这永远地改变了一切。

It's a double helix.

它是个双螺旋体.

It has administrators in it

里面有行政机关

and many, many other things.

还有许多其它东西.

And the problem of building it --

建造它的难处在于 --

when the Balinese workers

当巴厘岛工人们

saw long reams of plans,

看到长幅的设计图,

they looked at them and said, "What's this?"

他们看着设计图说, "这是什么?"

So we built big models.

所以我们造了大型的模型.

We had them engineered by the engineers.

由工程师来策划和建造.

And Balinese carpenters like this

巴厘岛的木工喜欢这个方法

measured them with their bamboo rulers,

用竹尺子来衡量,

selected the bamboo and built the buildings

挑竹子来造建筑

using age-old techniques,

利用古老的技术,

mostly by hand.

大部分用手工。

It was chaos.

那真是一片乱.

And the Balinese carpenters want to be as modern as we do,

巴厘岛的木工想和我们一样现代化,

so they use metal scaffolding

所以他们用金属棚架来

to build the bamboo building

造竹制建筑.

and when the scaffolding came down,

当浮架撤掉后,

we realized that we had a cathedral,

我们发现我们建了个天主教堂,

a cathedral to green,

一个绿色环保的天主教堂,

and a cathedral to green education.

一个绿色环保教育的天主教堂。

The heart of school has seven kilometers

学校之心共用了七千米的

of bamboo in it.

的竹子.

From the time the foundations were finished,

从地基完成时算起,

in three months it had roofs and floors.

三个月内就建成了地板和屋顶.

It may not be the biggest bamboo building in the world,

它可能不是世界上最大的竹制建筑,

but many people believe

但很多人相信

that it's the most beautiful.

它是最美的.

Is this doable in your community?

这在你的社区里可行吗?

We believe it is.

我们相信是可以的.

Green School is a model we built for the world.

绿色学校是我们为全世界建的模型.

It's a model we built for Bali.

是我们为巴厘岛造的模型.

And you just have to follow these simple, simple rules:

你们仅仅需要照搬这些简单的方案:

be local,

从当地情况出发,

let the environment lead

让环境带头

and think about

再想想

how your grandchildren might build.

你的孙辈会怎样建造.

So, Mr. Gore, thank you.

所以, 戈尔先生, 谢谢你.

You ruined my life,

你毁了我的生活,

but you gave me an incredible future.

但你给予了我一个美丽的未来.

And if you're interested in being involved

如果你感兴趣, 想参与

in finishing Green School

完成建造绿色学校

and building the next 50 around the world,

以及在世界范围内接着建造50个，

please come and see us.

请来我们这里参观.

Thank you.

谢谢.

(Applause)

(鼓掌)