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		<title>A Town Called Freedom</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anna Garwood, Green Empowerment&#8217;s Latin American Program Manager, was recently interviewed about a Green Empowerment Project in Peru.
If you aren’t in the Peruvian Amazon, and thus are out of the listening area of my recent interview on “Radio Marañon,” I’ll give you the translated upshot. Juan Santos Chavez, the president of the 10 family agricultural [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenempowerment.wordpress.com&blog=3076399&post=627&subd=greenempowerment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thibaut en Ecuador con FEDETA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 16:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>saramorrissey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thibaut Demaegdt, a project engineer working with the Ecuadorian NGO, FEDETA (The Foundation for Appropriate Technology), describes the activities that he has been working on since arriving in Ecuador in early January.
He has been working on FEDETA projects with another engineer, Juan José del Valle. The civil engineer Mario Brito, Director of FEDETA, is their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenempowerment.wordpress.com&blog=3076399&post=383&subd=greenempowerment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Rhythm of the Dam Building Dance</title>
		<link>http://greenempowerment.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/the-rhythm-of-the-dam-building-dance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 03:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>saramorrissey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Megan Kerins, a recent 3-month Fellow with the Border Green Energy Team in Thailand, shares her experience building a micro hydropower system in Ta Po Puh, a Karen village in the hills of Thailand. 
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		<title>All Your Technical Questions Answered</title>
		<link>http://greenempowerment.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/all-your-technical-questions-answered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stephrouthge</dc:creator>
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		<title>A Birthday in the Hills of Karen Country in Thailand</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>saramorrissey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The blog below is written by Christina Liebner who was recently a 3-month Fellow with the Border Green Energy Team in Thailand. 
 &#8220;To date, I have not experienced a happier birthday than my most recent, which I celebrated in the hills of Karen country in Thailand.&#8221; &#8211; Christina

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		<title>Announcing Online Tech Training from Quito 11/14-12/8</title>
		<link>http://greenempowerment.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/announcing-online-tech-training-from-quito-1114-128/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stephrouthge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Title: DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION AND MANAGEMENT OF MICRO HYDROELECTRIC PROJECTS
Language: English
Dates: November 13 – December 8 (10 2hr Sessions)
Registration Deadline: November 12, 21:00 GMT (13:00 PST)
Cost: $285 general
The purpose of this course is to develop the skills of professionals, students, and engineers in the evaluation, design, installation and management of isolated power generation systems (such as
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