I’m a big fan of The Solar Living Institute. I just read about one of their former interns who is now taking her skills to those who need it most.
Since September of 2007, Jenny has been working with Border Green Energy Team (BGET), whose mission is to install renewable energy technology in rural villages and refuge camps along the Thailand/Myanmar border. In an area ridden with strife, Jenny and the BGET team have been working to bring appropriate technology solutions for health care, education, and food in the community.
With local agricultural needs taking a priority, Jenny and the BGET team installed solar water pumping, gravity-fed drip irrigation, and composting systems that are appropriate for the needs of the refugee camps in the area. Jenny also coordinated the installation of a 720 watt solar system that is now providing power to a village medical clinic for the use of lights, microscopes, computers, and a vaccine refrigerator. The team has nearly completed the installation of a 3.5 kilowatt microhydro system that will provide power to the elementary school, dormitory, and in the future will expand out to individual houses within the village.
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