Together with Ibuku and Studio Jencquel, Mantra is designing a bamboo beach club, implementing passive cooling strategies, reducing energy requirements for the kitchen and back of the house, providing improved thermal properties and designing water recycling and rainwater filtration systems, renewable energy and onsite composting and garden management. The beach…
Sharing Mantra´s success stories and showcasing 2016 - 2019´s projects, Sean Nino published the past year's environmentally sustainable design results. Reducing water consumption by up to 52% and reducing energy by up to 40%. The talk focused on energy, water, and waste and highlighted the fact that the tourism industry…
Together with Alexis Dornier and Maximilian Jencquel, Mantra is designing a hotel, implementing passive cooling strategies and air distribution, providing building materials with improved thermal properties and designing water recycling and rainwater filtration systems. The Hotel will require less energy consumption for cooling and hot water and make use of…
Bali bans single-use plastics and pilots community owned recycling plants in Desa Pererenan. Following the ongoing implementation and first successful models, Gianyar Regency is planning to build a total of 20 facilities together with the MPH team. The perception of material/waste management is changing in Bali. As more and more…
The Yak publishes their Green Bali issue and highlights Mantra as a leader in Environmentally Sustainable Design “Business leaders of today are learning that they need to put forward lean, clean and cool new products that are environmentally friendly. You don´t see market leaders hanging their logos on gas guzzling…
Together with award winning architects, Andra Matin and Kengo Kuma, Mantra is reducing the properties cooling load, implementing passive cooling strategies and air distribution, providing building materials with improved thermal properties and designing water recycling and rainwater filtration systems.
A net-zero water runoff, carbon-neutral building design, natural pools, passive cooling with improved building material, high-efficiency AC system and fresh air ventilation, 60% less heat gain, 42% reduced cooling, Solar PV and Rainwater Harvesting are setting the standard and baseline for the 500 HA master plan in Serangan, Bali. The…
Immersive learning of energy, water, materials, waste and biodiversity. Connecting students with their culturally rich and local environment. Greenschool New Zealand is built suspended in the sky and focused on hands on learning as a lifelong pursuit.
State of the art green building in Berawa, Mantra was awarded to the complete environmental design of a net zero carbon building made from rammed earth and bamboo. Features will include ground water recharge wells, zero waste to landfill and applied urban geometry principles with passive cooling and well ventilated…
Mantra was awarded the complete environmentally sustainable design package for the 3 HA large Potato Head Hotel in Pererenan, Bali. The project has started by restoring top soils and with a large scale composting project. Furthermore Mantra is working on HVAC Design, rainwater harvesting and water recycling and zero waste…
NEXUS Asia Summit
Co-Founder Sean Nino was invited as a speaker to the 3rd Annual NEXUS Asia Summit. The event brought together many of Asia’s young social change leaders, family business members, philanthropists, entrepreneurs, investors and civil society leaders to discuss and explore solutions to pressing issues facing Indonesia, Asia, and the world.
Founders Forum
The Mantra team was invited as speakers to discuss how emerging technologies and progressing digitalization are increasingly driven by young and ingenious entrepreneurs. The forum discussed innovative solutions that tackle current problems and demands.
Potato Head Family
Complete and highly detailed energy, water, and waste audits and full management of solutions implementation reduced the group's flagship beach clubs CO2 emissions by 350,000 Kg/ year and adjoined resource savings worth over 85,000 $USD/ year. The Potato Head Family is heavily focused on the environment, goes carbon neutral, and…
Deutsche Welle TV
Mantra is featured on the Internationally broadcast feature documentary. The series was broadcast in over 20 countries on DW and local networks alike. Viewers get a detailed look into the daily work at Mantra and learn about the Bali Water Protection Program as well as engineering solutions that make tourist…
APEC
Sean Nino was invited to the APEC meeting to provide insights on community-owned waste management in Indonesia. The event provided an opportunity to discuss unfair fertilizer subsidies that hamper local compost production, unnecessary and excessive plastic packaging standards and other topics revolving around the South East Asian waste crisis. The…
Genius Cafe
Co-Founder Sean Nino won 2nd place with the MPH circular approach and Hubs, a community approach and software that builds and grows village-owned waste/material management facilities that cater to industry and local villagers. Entrepreneur Social, Genius Cafe, Bali 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PneOzGklYqA
Waterbom Bali
Waterbom Bali, Asia's Nr. 1 award winning waterpark implemented the complete Eco Toolkit with Mantra in 2017. Complete and highly detailed energy, water, and waste audits as well as the full management of solutions implementation reduced the waterpark's CO2 emissions by 686,000 Kg/ year. Adjoined resource savings are worth over…
TV News
Bali´s Eco Entrepreneurs are making Bali a better place. The MPH Circular Approach to Waste Management were featured on Al Jazeera making Bali a better place. The community-owned waste management approach is showcased. The approach grows within the local socio-economic framework and speeds up infrastructure development to reduce the amount…
Ayung Resort Bali
Ayung Resort Bali carried out turnkey solutions for energy, water, and waste. The project was successfully implemented by Mantra in 2016. The 43 room and 12 private villa luxury resort reduced its CO2 emissions by 149,500 Kg per year, adjoined energy savings of 166,000 kWh, and water savings of 12…
Alila Resort Ubud
Alila Resort Ubud had a successful AC retrofit with a 5 month payback period. The project was successfully implemented by Mantra in 2016. The 60 room luxury resort reduced its CO2 emissions by 60,600 Kg per year and adjoined energy savings of 67,000 kWh resulting in over 10,000 $USD /…
Viceroy Resort Bali
Viceroy Resort Bali's first major energy savings and complete turnkey solutions were successfully implemented by Mantra in 2015. The 25 private pool villa luxury resort reduced its CO2 emissions by 413,000 Kg per year and adjoined energy savings of 450,000 kWh, resulting in over 95,000 $USD / year in financial…
Hubud, Bali 2016
Mantra Co-Founder Maitri Fischer supported the event as a coach and provided input on social impact and innovation ,social entrepreneurship, tech for good, social impact and sustainable solutions.
Green School, Bali 2016
Sean Nino kicked off the speaker series: What’s New? Sustainable Solutions on the Rise. The annual event is part of the Green School Bali´s environmental weekend aiming to inspire, connect and equip the community to develop climate resilience.
Bali 2016
Sean Nino was a keynote speaker at the Earcos speaker series, where he taked about energy, water, and waste and environmental resilience in Bali. The Global Issues Network (GIN) Conference empowers young people to develop sustainable solutions to address global problems and to implement their ideas with the support of…
Yak Award
Sean Nino and Maitri Fischer were awarded for their innovative start up and Eco Toolkit that reduces energy and water consumption and minimizes waste to landfill. The young founders were awarded for their cost effective tool and approach that enables tourism resorts to measure, monitor and benchmark their environmental impact.