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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>Job Posting: Executive Director</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About Green Empowerment
For twelve years, Green Empowerment has partnered with rural communities and locally-based organizations in the developing world to build renewable energy and water systems to alleviate poverty and improve the environment. Our current core countries are Nicaragua, Ecuador, Peru, the Philippines and on the Thailand/Burma border, although we work in and have completed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenempowerment.wordpress.com&blog=3076399&post=720&subd=greenempowerment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gordy Molitor leaves Green Empowerment</title>
		<link>http://greenempowerment.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/gordy-molitor-leaves-green-empowerment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Royce and Gordy Molitor, Green Empowerment’s Board President and Executive Director, are pleased to announce that Gordy will be leaving Green Empowerment and that applications are being sought for his replacement.
Following months of discussion on how best to restructure Green Empowerment, the Board agreed to move forward on the options presented by Gordy at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenempowerment.wordpress.com&blog=3076399&post=718&subd=greenempowerment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sam Shrank Installs a Solar System in Lay Tong Ku</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>saramorrissey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam Shrank is a 3-month MAP Fellow from Stanford University who has been serving with Green Empowerment and the Border Green Energy Team in Thailand since September 2009.
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Monday was a day of driving. We drove from Mae Sot to the last village accessible by car on the way to our final destination, Lay Tong Ku. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenempowerment.wordpress.com&blog=3076399&post=703&subd=greenempowerment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bringing Education and Electricity to the Q&#8217;ero Nation of Peru</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>saramorrissey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Q´ero Nation, a community of people who live in the remote Andes of Peru, are currently facing large problems as they are lacking basic services like like clean drinking water, electricity, education, sanitary facilities and access to health care. Infant mortality between the ages of 0 and 5 is high at 47 percent and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenempowerment.wordpress.com&blog=3076399&post=694&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>
		<dc:creator>saramorrissey</dc:creator>
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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>
		<dc:creator>saramorrissey</dc:creator>
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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>Green Empowerment Service Learning Project/Tour in Peru</title>
		<link>http://greenempowerment.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/green-empowerment-service-learning-projecttour-in-peru/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>saramorrissey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In August of 2009, Andrew Kanzler led a group of fellow Landscape Architecture alumni, graduate, and undergraduate students from Cal Poly Pomona on a 10-day Green Empowerment Service Learning project/tour with staff from Practical Action in Peru/ITDG along sections of the Jequetepeque Watershed in northern Peru.  Andrew is an artist and current graduate student in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenempowerment.wordpress.com&blog=3076399&post=593&subd=greenempowerment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Working in Cajamarca with Soluciones Practicas</media:title>
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		<title>Renewable Energy for the Developing World Workshop</title>
		<link>http://greenempowerment.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/renewable-energy-for-the-developing-world-workshop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Come join us!  This workshop covers the skills necessary to design and wire a solar system on a community building, health center, or school &#8211;and&#8211; the skills needed to size a water pumping system to deliver clean water to a village of rural farmers. In addition, the course includes information not usually discussed in other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenempowerment.wordpress.com&blog=3076399&post=587&subd=greenempowerment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Daniel Soto in the Amazon</title>
		<link>http://greenempowerment.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/daniel-soto-in-the-amazon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Soto, a Ph.D. student in Physics at Stanford, worked with FEDETA in Quito Ecuador through a MAP Sustainable Energy Fellowship. While working with FEDETA Daniel had the opportunity to travel to the Amazon and work on a project that used river turbines to generate electricity for a small community called San José. 
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			<media:title type="html">Constructing the new turbine platform</media:title>
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