A few years ago, I started looking into solar energy. Just like you, I started with an online search exploring on how I could save money with solar electricity. I was shocked to see how much it cost to have solar panels installed at my house! The estimate I received was over $35,000 and the payback time for that was just way too long. I certainly didn’t have that kind of money, not even close. I was resigned to the idea of paying the electric company each and every month until I met a friend who had a solution. My friend explained that he was building his own solar panels for just a fraction of the cost of new retail solar panels. For more info on Green DIY Energy, click on the images above and below.

Nov 1996 In the very heartland of tribal Borneo, luscious green valleys and cloudy glades are about to be flooded. The Bakun Dam project is one of Malaysia‘s biggest secrets and its creation will destroy the lands belonging to the Kenyah tribe. In the village of Long Geng, a family scoff at the government relocation plan to give them 7 acres next to a company plantation. One young man says angrily, “For us life means living with our community. What they call progress is really murder – the killing of the community.” Proud of their self-sufficiency, villagers of all ages work together. As one little girl pulls fishing nets through a stream, an older women treads the water to stir up the mud. “This way the fish won’t see us”, she explains, laughing. Later a lady laments, “We are sick in the heart that they want to block up the Bakun”. Determined not to abandon the graves of their ancestors, many villagers say that the army will have to come and drag them away. Others are more defiant, “Let them shoot us and then we will be at peace.” At great personal risk, our reporter gives voice to a community facing extinction. A Film by Lighthouse Pacific (Mark Davis) Distributed by Journeyman Pictures