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NATURE WEEK – UnPanel Discussion – Lense of Hope
September 3, 2019 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Let’s break up the monotony of panels where we tend to talk a lot with no outcome. So we are bringing you the UnPanel where we are going to leave with community actions items.
Humans impact their physical environment in many ways: overpopulation, pollution, burning fossil fuels, and deforestation. This has triggered major climate impact.
We are in the age of the Anthropocene, where our day-to-day choices are having long-lasting impacts on our local and global environment. But, all too often, it becomes hard to figure out which of our choices are most important when we try to reduce our environmental impact. And we are seduced into thinking that one set of solutions is ‘right’, while we are often unaware of the wide range of options we have to consider gently reducing our footprint on our world. This conversation can also be overwhelming and we tend to lose hope.
This UnPanel will bring together experts from a range of fields to discuss how we can better understand our impact and how we can all seek to reduce them.
Let’s take action, explore solutions and operate through a lense of hope.
Facilitator
Matt Leggett – Matt has over 15 years of experience in international development and conservation across Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region. Matt’s work currently focuses primarily on designing and implementing innovative landscape-scale initiatives that address the drivers of deforestation while supporting local livelihoods. An anthropologist by training, his work connects years of experience in remote expeditions, field conservation and community engagement with the crafting and delivery of impactful policy interventions at national, or international level. He is a strong believer in the need for unique partnerships and diverse skill sets as core attributes for creating a positive environmental impact. In addition to being a regular panelist at international forums, Matt has co-authored several books and articles on these topics for policy makers (translated into 5 languages), that have been widely distributed in policy forums such as the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. Matt is currently the Regional Advisor for the Wildlife Conservation Society, supporting the delivery of terrestrial conservation across Indonesia and Malaysia.
Special guests:
Bandana Tewari is a lifestyle journalist, sustainable activism, and columnist for The Business of Fashion. As Vogue India’s Editor-at-Large for 13 years, Bandana Tewari sat front row to a rapidly evolving industry and reported extensively about the global fashion industry. Coupled with her unrestrained and fiercely independent voice, understanding of socio-political dynamics of fashion and trademark forward-thinking, she is considered one of India’s foremost authorities on fashion.
Bandana’s pieces have appeared in well-regarded publications such as The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, US Vogue, UK Vogue, Wallpaper*, and Tank, in addition to several leading Indian journals— Mint Lounge, Platform and Take. She has scripted and hosted 50 episodes of ‘Simply Style’, India’s first primetime TV show on fashion, and hosted two seasons of the first fashion webisodes in India.
In December 2017, she, along with award-winning documentary film-maker Andrew Morgan of The True Cost and New York Times Fashion Director Vanessa Friedmen, spoke at the United Nations, New York on The New Handworker Economy. http://www.buildanest.org/handworkers. Bandana sits on the advisory boards of NEST(www.buildanest.org) and Eco Chic Design Awards (www.ecochicdesignaward.com), is Special Advisor to Copenhagen Fashion Summit. She is member of the expert panel of H&M Foundation’s Global Change Award 2018 (www.globalchangeaward.com). She was an Advisory Committee member for MoMA’s exhibition in 2017 titled ” Is Fashion Modern”‘
Gove DePuy is a Sustainability Professional and Landscape Designer who has been working to create environmental and
social value in Asia and in the US for the past 15 years. Within a broad portfolio of Green Building Certification, Sustainability Planning and Landscape Design, Gove specializes in practical Sustainability Strategies informed by traditional cultures and local ecosystems. Notable projects include 10 years on the Fivelements Design Team, a village-based micro hydro plant, and multiple constructed wetland projects around SEAsia.
Marcel Vermaak joined Green School Bali in 2015 as a Facility Management intern and supported the Learning Environment team on the development of processes and systems for operational sustainability. By taking a “Learn, Unlearn, Relearn” approach, he is actively paying attention to what is happening locally and globally. Therefore, Marcel is passionate about change management, operational sustainability and facility management. Over the past 2 years, he has lead the reduction of the Green School’s carbon footprint by 70% and now takes on increased responsibility as Director of Environmental Sustainability.
Ida Rahayu is a Teacher at Green School Bali since 2012. She is originally from Java and has been living in Bali for over 10 years. Ida started learning about Permaculture in 2016 and finished a one-year Graduate Certificate of Permaculture Design in 2017 with Central Queensland University, Australia. From then on, she became passionate about Permaculture and joined more courses at IDEP Bali and Kul Kul Farm.In addition to her studies, she has also been learning about Syntropic Farming or Agroforestry which she believes that the best way to grow food is to mimic nature like all systems that happen in the forest.