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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.
Monday
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>University of Michigan&#8217;s BLUElab heads down to Nicaragua</title>
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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>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>
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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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		<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>
		<dc:creator>saramorrissey</dc:creator>
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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>Jaime and other Presidio Students Travel to Nicaragua</title>
		<link>http://greenempowerment.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/jaime-and-other-presidio-students-travel-to-nicaragua/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>saramorrissey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jaime Lehner, a Master&#8217;s student at the Presidio School of Management, a business school in San Francisco that focuses on sustainability, shares her thoughts on her trip with fellow Presidio students to Managua Nicaragua. 
We began our adventure on the morning of December 30 in Managua, Nicaragua. Our transportation for the upcoming week arrived and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenempowerment.wordpress.com&blog=3076399&post=289&subd=greenempowerment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Trip to Bramadero with Gerson</title>
		<link>http://greenempowerment.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/a-trip-to-bramadero-with-gerson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>saramorrissey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gerson, a Portland resident, shares two excerpts from his journal about his trip with Green Empowerment to Nicaragua with PSU students and faculty from Dec. 26, 2008 to Jan. 6, 2009. 
We stayed mostly in the village of Bramadero, which is so tiny that it does not show up on Google Earth. We slept in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenempowerment.wordpress.com&blog=3076399&post=274&subd=greenempowerment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PSU Senior Capstone Group in Bramadero Nicaragua</title>
		<link>http://greenempowerment.wordpress.com/2009/02/08/218/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>saramorrissey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monique Leslie is a member of one of Portland State University&#8217;s Senior Capstone Projects. This particular PSU Senior Capstone group went to Bramadero Nicaragua to learn about renewable energy and how it can help overcome the challenges that the citizens in Bramadero face by living in the rural countryside. Below are her reflections on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenempowerment.wordpress.com&blog=3076399&post=218&subd=greenempowerment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Service Learning Trip to Nicaragua with Students from Cal Poly Pomona</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Juan Araya, from the Cal Poly Pomona Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies, along with Jason Selwitz, Director of Service Learning at Green Empowerment, recently took a group of Cal Poly Pomona students on a service learning trip to Nicaragua. The group worked side-by-side with community members and one of G.E.&#8217;s Nicaraguan Partners, Asofenix, in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenempowerment.wordpress.com&blog=3076399&post=171&subd=greenempowerment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s a Biodigestor?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ultimate in closed-cycle resource use: The Biodigestor. You put cow manure in one end and get out usable cooking gas and organic fertilizer. The odorless gas is piped into the kitchen where it can be burned for 4-5hrs a day, replacing the need to collect firewood. The liquid fertilizer is rich in nutrients to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenempowerment.wordpress.com&blog=3076399&post=33&subd=greenempowerment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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