Sam Shrank Installs a Solar System in Lay Tong Ku

Sam Shrank is a 3-month MAP Fellow from Stanford University who has been serving with Green Empowerment and the Border Green Energy Team in Thailand since September 2009.
Monday
Monday was a day of driving. We drove from Mae Sot to the last village accessible by car on the way to our final destination, Lay Tong Ku. [...]

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CRUDE – Now Playing at Cinema 21

Three years in the making, the new cinéma-vérité feature from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Brother’s Keeper, Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster) is the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial environmental lawsuits on the planet, pitting 30,000 indigenous rainforest dwellers against the U.S. oil giant Chevron.
The inside story of the [...]

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Bringing Education and Electricity to the Q’ero Nation of Peru

The Q´ero Nation, a community of people who live in the remote Andes of Peru, are currently facing large problems as they are lacking basic services like like clean drinking water, electricity, education, sanitary facilities and access to health care. Infant mortality between the ages of 0 and 5 is high at 47 percent and [...]

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