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		<title>Bringing Solar Power to Hogar amiguitos in Jinotega, Nicaragua</title>
		<link>http://greenempowerment.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/bringing-solar-power-to-hogar-amiguitos-in-jinotega-nicaragua/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>saramorrissey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The entry below was written by Philip Beard who traveled to Nicaragua in March 2009 with his good friend Joseph Marino to complete their second major photovoltaic installation there.  The grateful recipient was a wonderful home for abused kids called “Hogar amiguitos” in the central-northern town of Jinotega. The work was kindly facilitated with funding from Green Empowerment.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenempowerment.wordpress.com&blog=3076399&post=729&subd=greenempowerment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Environmentalism a Rich Person’s Cause?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>annagarwood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not in Peru.
In the slums of US cities, livelihoods are not based so much on natural resources, but on wage labor at the bottom of the capitalist economy. But in Peru, and arguably in the majority of the world, the people struggling to get by live on natural resources. Their day-to-day survival depends directly on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenempowerment.wordpress.com&blog=3076399&post=727&subd=greenempowerment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sam Shrank Installs a Solar System in Lay Tong Ku</title>
		<link>http://greenempowerment.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/sam-shrank-installs-a-solar-system-in-lay-tong-ku/</link>
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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>Fragil Survival in the Sacred Valley</title>
		<link>http://greenempowerment.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/fragil-survival-in-the-sacred-valley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>annagarwood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peru]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sacred Valley is full of paradoxes. Stunning vertical landscapes. Tourism and a hippy mecca. Andean Waldorf schools. And grinding poverty…
I first meet up with Sandra and Sandy: two good natured, down-to-earth Canadians who are volunteering in Peru. Sandra with Kuasay Wasi Clinic (http://kausaywasi.org/) and Sandy with DESEA, Desarrollo en Accion (www.deseaperu.org), Green Empowerment’s new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenempowerment.wordpress.com&blog=3076399&post=672&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>
		<comments>http://greenempowerment.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/university-of-michigans-bluelab-heads-down-to-nicaragua/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>saramorrissey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nicaragua]]></category>
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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>Job Posting: Development Director</title>
		<link>http://greenempowerment.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/job-posting-development-director/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stephrouthge</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://greenempowerment.wordpress.com/?p=590</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Green Empowerment seeks an experienced and motivated Development Director to help support our ongoing work.  The application deadline is November 4, 2009.  Please pass this on to friends, family, and vague acquaintances who you feel can help catalyze the work we do through fundraising efforts.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenempowerment.wordpress.com&blog=3076399&post=590&subd=greenempowerment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Register for Sun, Wind &amp; Gears &#8211;  Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009</title>
		<link>http://greenempowerment.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/register-for-sun-wind-gears-sunday-oct-4-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stephrouthge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ride your bike and tour a solar cell plant. What could be finer on a sunny Sunday morning?
That&#8217;s right, the weather forecast for this Sunday is sunny and fine.  It promises to be, in fact, perfect riding weather.  So register to ride, and then register a friend or family member to ride, too!  From the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenempowerment.wordpress.com&blog=3076399&post=572&subd=greenempowerment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mary Solecki with AsoFénix in Nicaragua &#8211; Bramadero to the Web</title>
		<link>http://greenempowerment.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/mary-solecki-with-asofenix-in-nicaragua-bramadero-to-the-web/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>saramorrissey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mary Solecki, a graduate of the Presidio School of Management&#8217;s Sustainable MBA program, spent two months with AsoFénix in Nicaragua working both in the field in Bramadero and re-developing the AsoFénix website in Managua. From the field to the office Mary shares her experience with the Green Empowerment community. 

The end of my internship with AsoFénix [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenempowerment.wordpress.com&blog=3076399&post=494&subd=greenempowerment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Junzi Shi Attends the Biogas Digester Design Exchange in Cajamarca</title>
		<link>http://greenempowerment.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/junzi-shi-attends-the-biogas-digester-design-exchange-in-cajamarca/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>saramorrissey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Junzi Shi is a Chemistry and Global Health student at Northwestern University.  As a team member of her school’s Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) chapter, she traveled to Nicaragua in March of 2009 to install household sized biogas digesters with Green Empowerment, AsoFénix, and families in two rural communities.  In May 2009, Junzi traveled [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=greenempowerment.wordpress.com&blog=3076399&post=442&subd=greenempowerment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Watch the 2009 Energy Globe World Award Ceremony Below</title>
		<link>http://greenempowerment.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/watch-the-2009-energy-globe-world-award-ceremony-below/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>saramorrissey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Burma]]></category>
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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=433&subd=greenempowerment&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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