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 [...]
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Green Empowerment Service Learning Project/Tour in Peru
Posted in Peru, university partnership, wind energy on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
News Coverage Regarding Alumbre
Posted in Peru, wind energy on October 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Check out the news clip below regarding the Alumbre project in Peru which Green Empowerment and other partners have been involved in. It’s from a national Peruvian news station and gives the flavor of the community and the impact the project has made:
A big thanks to Anna Garwood for adding the [...]
Daniel Soto in the Amazon
Posted in Ecuador, get involved, wind energy on September 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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.
San José [...]

