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	<title>Green Empowerment: the Blog &#187; Nicaragua</title>
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		<title>Ven a Bailar Salsa en Portland!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Portland State University and Environmental Science &#38; Management alum Caitlyn Peake is interning with AsoFenix/Green Empowerment in Central Nicaragua. During her six month internship she will work with local communities to foster environmental conservation and to restore watershed habitat to ensure healthy water supplies for future generations. To help support her internship local restaurant and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenempowerment.wordpress.com&blog=3076399&post=722&subd=greenempowerment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2009 Energy Globe Award Video Clips</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2009 Energy Globe Awards, which recognizes renewable energy projects worldwide, were held this past spring in Prague.  Green Empowerment&#8217;s Solar Mobile Clinic project in Burma was selected as the winner in the &#8220;Fire&#8221; category.  The project, implemented by Thai partner Border Green Energy Team (BGET), was also voted overall Grand Prize Winner by the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenempowerment.wordpress.com&blog=3076399&post=692&subd=greenempowerment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Electricity in Nicaragua &#8211; The Power of the Sun</title>
		<link>http://greenempowerment.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/electricity-in-nicaragua-the-power-of-the-sun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>saramorrissey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The article below was featured in the May/June 2009 edition of Common Place Magazine and highlights some of the work done by Asofenix in Nicaragua. The article was written by Emily Will  and photographed by Melissa Engle.
For her 17 years of married life, Marbellyz Ortíz Espinoza has dreaded one part of each day — rising [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenempowerment.wordpress.com&blog=3076399&post=656&subd=greenempowerment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First Person: Jaime Muñoz</title>
		<link>http://greenempowerment.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/first-person-jaime-munoz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The article below was featured in the May/June 2009 edition of Common Place Magazine and profiles Jaime Muñoz, the founder of Asofenix. The article was written by Emily Will  and photographed by Melissa Engle.
 
From the first time I had heard about solar energy as a child, it intrigued me. When I was in school, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenempowerment.wordpress.com&blog=3076399&post=658&subd=greenempowerment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>University of Michigan&#8217;s BLUElab heads down to Nicaragua</title>
		<link>http://greenempowerment.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/university-of-michigans-bluelab-heads-down-to-nicaragua/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The University of Michigan’s Better Living Using Engineering Laboratory’s (BLUElab) Biogas Project focuses on the use of anaerobic biodigesters to recover energy from waste.  This group is advised by Dr. Steven Skerlos and is a team of undergraduates and graduates from different disciplines that do work on the project as an extracurricular commitment.  The group’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenempowerment.wordpress.com&blog=3076399&post=648&subd=greenempowerment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>David Hauth: The Challenges and Successes of Development Work</title>
		<link>http://greenempowerment.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/david-hauth-the-challenges-and-successes-of-development-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Hauth, an intern for Green Empowerment, is working in Nicaragua with AsoFenix on a number of renewable energy projects. He shares his thoughts about the work that he has completed, the challenges he has faced and the success that he has experienced.

As I write this blog I find myself in the middle of my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenempowerment.wordpress.com&blog=3076399&post=619&subd=greenempowerment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Outland Reforestation Raises Funds for Micro-Hydro Projects in Nicaragua</title>
		<link>http://greenempowerment.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/outland-reforestation-raises-funds-for-micro-hydro-projects-in-nicaragua/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is an entry provided by Jake Clemens, a past intern with Green Empowerment and AsoFenix about a fundraiser that was held this summer by Outland Reforestation. Thank you for all of your hard work Outland Reforestation!
If you had ventured into the Northern Alberta wilderness this past summer, it’s possible you could of encountered a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenempowerment.wordpress.com&blog=3076399&post=550&subd=greenempowerment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Engaged Scholarship with Lewis and Clark &amp; Green Empowerment</title>
		<link>http://greenempowerment.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/engaged-scholarship-with-lewis-and-clark-green-empowerment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Spring 2009 Lewis and Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling formed the Center for Community Engagement (CCE) as a model for sustainable community engagement and collaboration with traditional marginalized communities.
Professor of Counseling Psychology Tod Sloan calls this &#8220;engaged scholarship&#8221; and the college is actively developing various projects that that focus on this concept. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenempowerment.wordpress.com&blog=3076399&post=484&subd=greenempowerment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jocelyn Maxine Kluger; Biodigestors and Farming in Bramadero Nicaragua</title>
		<link>http://greenempowerment.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/jocelyn-maxine-kluger-biodigestors-and-farming-in-bramadero-nicaragua/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jocelyn Maxine Kluger, a current intern with AsoFénix in Nicaragua, through the ESW Summer Engineering Experience in Development (SEED) Volunteer Program, writes about biodigestor installations &#38; farming practices in Bramadero as well as cultural experiences she has encountered while in Nicaragua.
Since begining its involvment with the Bramadero community three years ago, AsoFénix has installed biodigestors behind [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenempowerment.wordpress.com&blog=3076399&post=475&subd=greenempowerment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life in Nicaragua for Brett</title>
		<link>http://greenempowerment.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/life-in-nicaragua-for-brett/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brett Boissevain, a current intern with AsoFénix in Nicaragua through the ESW Summer Engineering Experience in Development (SEED) Volunteer Program, shares his first experiences of living in Nicaragua.
I´m back in civilization again, but ever so briefly. I´ve spent the last week in the middle of a nicaraguan forest, living with a family (in a home [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenempowerment.wordpress.com&blog=3076399&post=468&subd=greenempowerment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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