Black Forest Green is a student-driven organization that tackles deforestation through green educational curricula in Indonesia. It documents stories of those impacted by deforestation and shares them in schools to inspire solutions. Its objectives are to develop an educational framework focusing on media advocacy against deforestation, engage and mobilize Indonesia's youth as forest stewards, and create youth-perspective content on deforestation's impacts.

1. 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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2. - 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 tells
deforestation’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?
objectives

3. 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 Resources
Institute, 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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