AN EVERGREEN ISLAND

This video is a story of courage, survival and persistence; of inventiveness, imagination and adaptability on a little-known Pacific island. Against an exotic tropical backdrop, the Bougainvilleans fought a guerilla war for almost a decade and won. 12,000 people died, mainly due to the impacts of the blockade.

From scratch, the people built their own schools and tertiary colleges; without Western medicine or health professionals they turned to their traditional bush medicine; without weapons they made their own guns out of waterpipe; without communications they charged batteries using solar power to run satellite telephones and 2 way radios and without a power station they generated their own electricity by harnessing water energy. But the most fascinating invention was the use of fermented coconut oil as a substitute for diesel fuel.

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