Ecology is Everywhere: Episode 4, Kyle King (Green School/Bio Bus)
“One of the most recent quotes that has been resonating with me is ‘You’re never too young to lead and you’re never too old to learn,’ and I think that’s one of the things we adopt at Green School. We’re always trying to put our kids in the driver’s seat and just kind of be in the passenger seat as teachers and be ready to grab the wheel if you need to. ”
Kyle King (Spring/Fall 2001) illustrates how his work in experiential learning around sustainability plays out in the classroom at Green School and how it led him to create Bio Bus, the biggest bio diesel transportation operation in Indonesia.
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Ecology is Everywhere is a podcast about environmental education and the places it takes us. Host Philip Mathieu speaks with guests who share a common experience: teaching one or more seasons of outdoor, experiential environmental science at The Ecology School, an non-profit based in Saco, ME. Hear how an experience teaching can impact lives and careers in interesting and sometimes unexpected ways.
Drew and Kyle King at a July 2019 presentation of The Ecology School’s River Bend Farm project in Belfast at Waterfall Arts.
Green School in Bali, Indonesia. (Image courtesy of Green School)
A class at Green School. (Image courtesy of Green School)
Bio Bus, a Green School student-led social enterprise that runs buses on used cooking oil. (Image courtesy of Green School Bio Bus.)
Kyle King, along with 7 Green School students, initiated Bio Bus in 2014 and launched in 2015. (Image courtesy of Green School Bio Bus.)