The Perma Life

Last week I went home for lunch, fixed myself a tuna sandwich and turned on the TV to watch the previous night’s episode of The Daily Show, one of my all-time favorite shows. The interview for that episode was a young man named William Kamkwamba, who at age 14, built a wind generator from parts laying around his village in Malawi. Several things about this story are so extraordinary: 1. this kids was not even in school at the time. His parents didn’t have the money, so he went to the local library funded by some charitable organization. 2. He didn’t really speak or read English, so he learned how to build this windmill by looking at the diagrams. 3. He didn’t seem to think any of this was a big deal.

I can’t wait to get out and but the book. In the meantime, here is a link to his blog and the daily show clip.