Black forest green // Hitam hutan hijau is A student driven action platform tackling

deforestation with green curricula. We are actively documenting the

stories of earthlings who are touched by deforestation and sharing them in schools with new generations to

inspire and innovate for sustainable solutions.

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- Develop an educational framework for adolescents that focuses on media as an advocacy tool against deforestation - this platform will meet national requirements and be easily shared amongst learning institutions across the country and worldwide. We will be piloting a 6 week literacy class this spring for adolescents, inviting local high school students (Kul Kul Connection - our local Balinese community) to co-teach with us and to gather experience to help strengthen and package our first units in a way that will make it feasible to share with educational systems across Indone-sia. The “green” literacy question for this pilot course will be: How can we use the media, more specifically filmmaking, to protect the world’s forests?

- Engage with and mobilize Indonesia’s youth, creating communities of stewards throughout Indonesia that rally against deforestation and promote sustainable forestry practices.

- Solidify a network of mentors, NGOs, and government institutions within Indonesia and internationally to act as advisors, funding partners, and contributors to the Black Forest Green educational framework.

- Create original content from a youth perspective that tellsdeforestation’s story comprehensively: interview series, documenta-ry-style videos, empathetic journalism pieces that uncover the many layers of deforestation, and attaching a human aspect to this issue. How do we, as humans, solve this problem that we have created in its entirety?

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Deforestation is a global issue. For Black Forest Green, based on the Indonesian island of Bali, it is also a local one. Our country, Indonesia, is one of the world's biggest carbon sinks, but simultaneously one of the largest carbon polluters. According to the World ResourcesInstitute, Indonesia's forest fires (millions of acres of peat lowland tropical rainforest being burned by humans for palm oil plantations) exceed the aver-age daily emissions from all economic activity in the US.

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