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Dammed, displaced and democratized

Posted on May 17, 2008

Amanda Kovattana, Energy Bulletin. As founder of the earthen building movement in Thailand, Jo Jandai has contributed much to the concept of living sustainably. ... We later stopped at a mountain community that had formed in the wake of a ten-year protest. I had been intrigued by this band of villagers that had set up camp on the lawn of the elegant parliament building in Bangkok. The villagers had lost their homes due to a large dam project (funded by the World Bank) flooding their land....

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