Green Empowerment recently offered a technical training to over 30 participants (October 17-19) — arranged in partnership with Portland’s professional chapter of Engineers Without Borders and hosted by the Environmental Science & Management program at Portland State University (PSU). The 2.5 day training focused on “Renewable Energy & Clean Water for the Developing World” and [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Anatomy of a Technical Training
Posted in technical training on October 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Water the Price of Gold
Posted in Peru, health on October 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
An elderly woman, wrapped in a hand-knit shawl tells me “Agua es vida,” water is life. Here in the highland communities of the Tumbaden district of San Pablo province in northern Peru, water is not taken for granted. It seeps from shallow holes in the meadows of high grasses, running in narrow streams through fields [...]

