Enchanted Island, People and the Environment

Even at this modern age, many people are still confounded by supernatural things. These things lie in the realm of the unexplainable that cause people to behave in a certain way. What people think and believe become their reality.

In defining the environment as a concept, people's beliefs are considered as one of the things that make it up. This is because of the idea that anything surrounding a person, whether tangible or intangible, is his environment. His interaction is determined by how he perceives his environment.

Enchanted Island

The case of the enchanted island of Marangas... From: Marangas Island: An Enchanted Place That People Would Not Dare Go

Indigenous People Designed Hydroelectric Power Plant

Two days ago, this author visited a community of indigenous people in connection with a research on valuing natural resources. He was amazed at what he saw. A simple but working hydroelectric power plant was built out of the ingenuity of a Pala'wan, one of the indigenous people of Palawan. Palawan is a province in the Philippines located at the western boundary of the country.

A Simple Idea Can Produce Results

This is the experience of Boyet, a descendant of the Palawan tribe in the hinterlands of southern Palawan. He saw on television a hydroelectric power plant and how water generates elec... From: Ingenuity by Indigenous People: Hydroelectric Power Plant Using Scrap Materials