Introduction
Because of steep population growth; transmigration from the cities; high unemployment; and failed business, farming and fishing methods; individuals and communities, in desperation, sometimes look for quick solutions to gain a livelihood. To earn an income they turn to environmentally destructive practices such as trading in endangered species; slash and burn farming practices in rainforest, woodlands and national parks; and salting (poisoning) of the rivers, creeks and waterways.  These destructive practices, combined with shrinking available land for traditional farming of rice and cows, swell the number of people living below or near the poverty line, and destroys their environment.
  
Programs’ Aim
To create eco-friendly jobs and businesses by educating and re-skilling farmers, fishermen and local communities in environmentally sustainable new farming methods; renewable energy gathering; waste recycling and processing; and in water management so they can attain a comfortable income  and cease the exploitation of natural resources.

R.O.L.E. supports the U.N. Millennium Development Goals 

The Program
For this program R.O.L.E. has a 25 year lease over a property at Sawangan, Nusa Dua, on the island of Bali. The property is 15,500 square meters in area and is positioned on a hillside overlooking Nusa Dua and the Indian Ocean, approximately 20 minutes from Bali’s International Airport. This location is central to the mangroves and harbour; to the tourism industry of Nusa Dua with its 5 star Hotels; to the seaweed farms; to the local fisheries; and to local agriculture of the Bukit, southern Bali.
On this property, as well as a teaching facility, R.O.L.E. will build 19 teaching and demonstration stations.
The Bukit Vocational Skills Learning Center Program has five skills areas with which R.O.L.E. is teaching eco-friendly jobs and business methods:

1. Construction
2. Body and Mind
3. Agriculture
4. Eco-Friendly Services & Products
5. Aquaculture

These five areas, in turn, are broken up into 19 teaching, display and demonstration stations. In most cases these stations double up as research and development centers. These stations may grow, divide or change over time - depending on the success of the jobs and businesses being developed.

Each station will have bench style seating for up to 30 students, a static display, a white board and teaching area, and a live demonstration of actual produce growing or goods being manufactured.

TEACHING STATIONS and SUBJECTS

CONSTRUCTION

Affordable, comfortable, self-sustaining, environmentally friendly housing is of great importance to the poor and disadvantaged.

Station 1 :   Eco-Housing Station - Home green home - Sustainable Living for the poor. Demonstration area.
This is a display of a completed earthquake proof house, built from rammed earth, bamboo, and other eco-friendly materials with all essential eco-friendly systems functional. Here is a list of these systems:

Station 2 :  Eco-Building Station – Construction Materials and Techniques
Business area - construction techniques and the making and use of eco-friendly building materials.

Eco-Friendly construction and building materials in a static display. The materials and techniques will include:

• Rammed Earth Walls and Bricks
• Eco-Friendly and Organic Building materials
• Renewable energy installation
• Waist management installation
• Water catchment methods
• Fireproofing

Station 3 :   Renewable Energy – Pollution Free
Business area - inexpensive, renewable energy sourcing and systems.

Build a renewable energy static and practical display. Build Research and Development Facility. Some of the renewable energy for the poor includes:

• Wind power
• Solar
• Bio Gas
• Ice making for fish transport.
• Bicycle power generation
• Coconut Oil and other organic fuels.

Station 4 : Waste Management Station – A Zero Waste World    
Business area – teach individuals how to make money out of recycling waste.

Waste Management and Recycling demonstration and static display for non-liquid waste:

• Sorting plastics for recyclables extraction
• Non Recyclable Plastics - Research & Development the technology for making bricks, tile etc.
• Paper Recycling
• Glass and Metal Recycling
• Organic Waste – Biogas and Mulch

 Station 5 : Water Management - My precious water
 Business area – building water management systems.

 Demonstration and static display for water management:

• Rainwater run off catchments for cooking and livestock
• Grey water (from washing etc) recycling for gardening
• Black water (from sewage) for mulching
• Water purification for drinking

BODY and MIND

The objective of these stations is to teach vocational skills in the fast growing business sector of health and wellness. Also, we hope it will improve the overall fitness of the local community.

Station 6 : Health Center - Healthy Body and Mind = Healthy Environment
Business/Job area – training up teachers in the disciplines of health and wellness.

Build an exercise area/health deck for teaching. Some of the disciplines to be taught are:

• Yoga
• Meditation
• Aikido etc.
• Massage

Station 7 : Fellowship Area – Song and Dance – Volunteer Balinese Cultural Area
Job – Volunteer Relations: Cultural exchange between volunteers and local Indonesians.

The whole idea is fun and laughter, breaking up the serious work.
Examples of cultural exchange:

• Balinese Dance
• Camp fire Singing
• Arts and Crafts

AGRICULTURE / FARMING

The objective of these stations is to teach new, high yielding alternative farming/agriculture methods. These eco-friendly techniques are relatively low-tech, low cost and low impact. The produce is attained from small lot farming so land price startup costs are minimal. Targeted produce is in demand but niche; getting away from traditional cow and rice farming, which is caught up in commodity prices. Most farmed commodities are farmed in bulk in countries far away; their prices unstable.

Station 8 :  Reforestation and Agriculture - Seedling Hut - Seeds of Life 
Business area – sale of seeds and organically grow seedlings for sale.

Build a glass house containing tables for preparation and seedling growth. Follow the integrated pest management (IPM) and organic farming procedures to produce high quality organic seeds and seedlings. Seedlings will be grown for:

• Reforestation
• Permaculture
• Organic Dyes
• Organic Fabrics
• Forest Garden
• Organic Gardening
• Pharmaceutical Plants

Station 9A : Organic Farming – Chemical Free Eating
Jobs/Business area – Grow organic foods for sale to various health conscious individuals, restaurants and hotels.

Set up an organic farm, static display and teaching area. Product growth considerations include soil types, local climate, and water availability.
The three main food types to be grown are:

• Vegetables
• Herbs and spices
• Fruit

Station 9B : Permaculture – Family Garden
Educational area.

The concept of Permaculture is a truly sustainable system of plants and animal, water retention that surrounds one house, provided most of your day to day consumables. Self-sufficient and environmentally friendly. These consumables include:

• Vegetables, Herbs and Fruits
• Pharmaceutical Vegetation
• Water Retention

Station 9C :  Forest Garden
Educational area.

Forest gardening (also known as 3-Dimensional Gardening) is a food production and land management system based on replicating woodland ecosystems, substituting trees (such as fruit or nut trees), bushes, shrubs, herbs and vegetables, all of which have yields directly useful to mankind. By exploiting the premise of companion planting, these can be intermixed to grow on multiple levels in the same area, as do the plants in a forest.
If planted correctly a Forest Garden will supply, control and regulate the:

• sunlight and shade
• water resources
• mulch
• wind
• drainage and erosion

Station 10 :  Pharmaceutical Plants – Natures Natural Medicines
Job/Business area – grow natural medicinal plants for sale.

Teach how to grow natural medicine or pharmaceutical plants for the prevention and cure of illness and aches and pains, and maintenance of the body.
Pharmaceutical plants of high value to be grown include:  

• Aloe vera
• Neemba tree (Azadirachta indica)
• Javanese Long Pepper (Piper retrofractum Vahl)
• Roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa)
• Ginger (Zingiber officinale)
• Devil's trumpet (Datura metel)
• Javanese turmeric (Curcuma xanthorrhiza)
• Tamarind (Tamarindus indica)
• Jatropha (Jatropha), also as future source of biofuel.
• Stevia (Stevia rebaudiana)

Station 11 :  Vermiculture – Worm Farming
Business area – farming earthworms for sale to various businesses.

The special earthworm: Lumbricus rubellus, is one of the most effective natural decomposer of organic waste know to man. They are high in protein. One kilogram of these worms eats up to one kilogram of organic waste per day. Brood stock is readily available. Initially cultured in boxes, once critical mass is reached they are transferred to compartments. The earthworm farming area will be shaded, cool, moist and protected. Worm farming Start Up is relatively low tech, low cost.
The worms and its produce are to be sold as;

• Organic fertilizer - Vermicomposting
• Livestock food
• Raw material for medicines.
• Raw material for cosmetics
• Pallets for Aquaculture
• Bait for fishing
• Nutritious alternative food for human consumption

Station 12 : Heliciculture - Land Snail Culture
Business area – farming land snails for sales to individuals, wholesalers and restaurants.

The eating of land snail Achatina is considered a French delicacy. In France it is better known as Éscargot. But today it is becoming a high value and important commodity, yet doable with a relatively low-tech, low cost, method.

• Pallets for Aquaculture
• Nutritious alternative food 

Station 13 :  Fungiculture – Mushroom Farming
Business area – farming mushrooms for sales to individuals, wholesalers and restaurants.
Oyster mushrooms are nutritious and pharmaceutical quality. They are good for the relief of hypertension, diabetes, excess cholesterol, anemia and developing body resistant to influenza, poliomyelitis and nutrition deficiency.
Fungiculture requires the correct combination of light, humidity and temperature. A mixture of substrate (growth medium) and inoculums (spawn or starter culture) are placed on metal trays which slide into stands, inside a dark house. Fungiculture is considered low tech, low cost product with a high return for effort.
What’s needed:

• Dark house
• Stands and trays
• Humidifiers
• Substrate supply
• Spawn supply

ECO FRIENDLY PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Teach eco-friendly products and services for the development of Businesses for the poor and disadvantaged.

Station 14 : Natural Fabrics
Business area – grow natural thread for sale to textile industry.

Natural fabrics are now in high demand and people will pay a premium for them.
Two of the plants to be grown for making textiles are fabrics are;

• Organic Cotton
• Wild Bamboo

Station 15 : Natural Dyes
Business area – grow natural dyes for sale to textile industry.

Plants that dyes are extracted from should grow with minimum irrigation, and farmed on existing farm land.
Natural dyes should come be non-toxic and bio-degradable when the life of the garment is over.
List of 10 natural dyes and the color:

• Anacardium accidentale – Cashew – dark brown
• Artocarpus heterophyllus – Jack fruit – light green
• Bixa orellana – Arnatto tree – red to reddish orange, orange, yellow
• Caesalpina sappin – Sappan wood – dark brown, violet, red, grey
• Capcium annum – Big chili – red
• Carthamus tinctorius – Kembang pulu – red or orange
• Cocos nucifera – Coconut palm – green
• Curcuma domestica Val -  Turmeric – yellow, khaki, gold, brown, dark green
• Fagetes erecta – Kenikir – brownish yellow
• Indigofera arrecta hochst – Indigo Tree –  indigo, navy blue

Color fixer:  Sapindus rara DC
Color enhancer:  Citrus aurantifolia

Station 16 :  Organic Restaurant - Food for Life
Job/Business area – teach jobs and businesses associated with Organic Restaurants.

Build a restaurant and outside eating area. The areas to be taught are:

• Food purchasing and Quality control
• Food preservation and Display
• Preparation and Cooking
• Serving and Customer Relations
• Cash Register and Basic bookkeeping
• Marketing and Sales
• Restaurant management

Station 17 : Reforestation – CO2 Emissions Offsetting – Clear clean Skies
Jobs/Business area – reforestation on land that was clear of forest under Article 3.3 of the Kyoto Protocol, companies who need CO2 Offset Credits.
Tree planting and maintenance for reforestation is a labor intensive process. Capital is supplied by carbon dioxide producing Individuals and corporations who are compelled to produce oxygen under the Kyoto Agreement. The most efficient long term producers of oxygen are trees.
R.O.L.E. will initially plant on land eligible under the Kyoto agreement; that is land that was clear of a forest some time on, or before 31 December 1989. This is also referred to as Kyoto Consistent Land.
The benefits of reforestation includes the restoration of the soil, rejuvenation of local flora and fauna, and the capturing and sequestering of 38 tons of carbon dioxide per hectare per year
Some of the trees types to be grown include:

1. Acacia aulacocarpa
2. Durian
3. Rattans
4. Cananga (Ylang - ylang)
5. Tamarind
6. Aerva sanguinolenta
7. Lamtoro (Leucaena leucocephala)
8. Gamal (Gliricidia sepium)
9. Mangostein
10. Jack fruit
11. Ramboutan (Nephelium cuspidatum Blume)
12. Bamboo plant.
13. Neemba tree

AQUACULTURE

Most varieties of marine (from the sea) lobsters are overfished and in some areas are endangered and cannot be cultured at this time. On the other hand freshwater lobsters are fairly easy to culture and have the added bonus of being low in cholesterol.

Station 18 :   Freshwater Aquaculture
Business area – sell freshwater lobster to individuals, wholesalers and restaurants

Freshwater lobster aquaculture can produce income for coastal fishing communities, as the costs for ocean fishing becomes more and more expensive. Because of over fishing in local fisheries, boats have to travel further and have become bigger. Well financed, big business is taking over the industries.
Aquaculture start up necessities are;

• Aquarium and ponds
• Filter, aerator and pumping equipment
• Lobster brood stock
• Feed supply

Station 19 :   Marine Revival and Ocean Resources Management Program Land Based Management and Teach Facility.
Jobs/Businesses area - See Marine Revival and Ocean Resources Management Program

This station includes:

• Teaching facility
• Research and Development
• Static and live display
• Demonstration area