Our 7th Annual Benefit Dinner at Andina Restaurant
Please join us at Green Empowerment’s annual fundraiser, “A Taste of Peru”, held over two evenings — March 5th or 6th – at Andina Restaurant in Portland’s Pearl District. Our staff will be sharing inspiring stories from recent renewable energy and water projects around the world. A premier annual event attended [...]
Windworks is a partnership formed between Green Empowerment and WISIONS (supported by The Wuppertal Institute) that is intended to progress the deployment of small-scale wind technologies in Latin America, and to subsequently use information gathered from project implementation to facilitate learning amongst regional stakeholders. The partnership is being conducted in a three-phased approach: 1) Preparation [...]
Anne Laufe, an award-winning freelance writer, visited Green Empowerment over the holidays to interview our Executive Director, Anna Garwood. As a result, we get a glimpse of the experience and beliefs that shape the work Anna does every day– helping to bring renewable energy and clean water to villages around the world.
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Linda Boise, Michael Heumann, and Karen Erde, members of Havurah Shalom congregation in Portland, OR, recently visited El Jocote, Nicaragua, where Green Empowerment and our partner Asofénix completed the installation of a solar-powered water pumping system last spring. The Portland congregation of Havurah Shalom raised over $40,000 to fund the system. Linda, a Senior Research [...]
Anna Garwood, Green Empowerment’s Executive Director, shares a glimpse of life at Asociacion Tarpuy, a unique children’s home in Peru that defies the procedures set by more institutionalized children’s homes. At Turpay, the atmosphere is imbued with positivity; the 7 children and 4 adults behave like family. The home rests amidst barren hills; however, Turpay [...]
AsoFenix! Jaime Múñoz, Director of Green Empowerment’s partner organization AsoFenix, recently returned from Wels, Austria, where he accepted the Green Energy Globe for Water on behalf of AsoFenix.
Wait, what’s a Green Energy Globe? you’re asking. The Energy Globe World Award for Sustainability was introduced in 1999 by Wolfgang Neumann, a world-renowned Austrian energy pioneer. Since being [...]
After receiving the honor of “2012 Roaster of the Year” by Roast Magazine for its industry-leading sourcing, sustainability, and humanitarian practices, local roaster Portland Roasting Coffee has taken another admirable step by partnering with Green Empowerment for the holidays.
During November and December, a $1 for every 12oz bag of Holiday Roast and $5 for every [...]
Jason Livingston, a mechanical engineering graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, recently concluded a one-year volunteer term with Green Empowerment’s partner organization SIBAT (Sibol ng Agham at Teknolohiya) in the Philippines. Jason discusses efforts to rebuild and improve a solar crop dryer at Mangarita Organic Farm and recounts a story of an improbable reunion of family [...]
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Plugging in: Renewable energy for remote villages
Dexter Gauntlet works at Green Empowerment and just returned from spending the past nine months in the Philippines to scale up renewable energy and water projects in remote villages there. Contact him at dexter.gauntlett (at) greenempowerment.org and read his blog, Generation Fix.
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