Green Gleanings 2 - Dec. 07

Contained Energy is a ‘foreign investment corporation’ (PMA) located in Jakarta, and now in Bali, offering renewable energy and sustainable solutions, generally through sponsorship

This is a partial list of their projects in Aceh:
* Solar power for 100 satellite radios.
* Solar/wind pumping for GTZ project.
* Solar water heating for Hotel Jeumpa.
* Solar/wind power for Bukit Suharto health clinic.
* Solar water-pumping systems for the Bukit Suharto community
* Solar security lighting and street lights for SMKIII vocational school.
* Solar home systems and street lights for Muara Tiga village.

And elsewhere:
* Solar ceiling fan for Jakarta International School
.* Ruggedized solar streetlights for coal mine.
* Solar water pumping for Lampung.

Endangered faeces
If you had wanted to give your loved one some rhino dung for Xmas, the auction closed early. However, if you're in Indonesia, you can always try to get some independently so here's some pap on rhino poop.

Javan rhinos live deep in the Indonesian rain forest and like to wallow in mud to keep cool. Males mark their territory with dung piles and urine spraying. Javan rhinos are so rare and so secretive that sometimes the only way we can monitor populations is through their dung.

Sumatran rhinos spend most of the day in wallows. These rhinos don’t spread dung around; instead they drag their back foot for several meters and mark scrapes in that way. In Indonesia’s wet forests, this method may be more effective than flinging dung around, like black rhinos do.

A giant rat and a pygmy marsupial possum, have been 'discovered' in the cloud forests of Papua.

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