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Green Empowerment: the Blog
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Green Empowerment: the Blog
  • Installing Solar Panels in the Developing World
    In April 2009 Kristen Underwood traveled to Nicaragua with Power to the People and Green Empowerment to install solar panels on a school in rural Nicaragua. Kristen, a solar installer in the United States, found it exciting and interesting to see how solar was (and was not) installed in a...
  • Op-Ed in the Oregonian
    A recent article in the Oregonian describes the relationship between Portland’s sustainable practices and Green Empowerment’s work globally.  This article is on a continuation of a theme from a Proclamation we recently received by both the City of Portland and the State of Oregon (blush). http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/06/from_portland_to_the_world.html Have thoughts or comments?  Leave a...
  • Working with AIDFI in the Philippines
    The blog below is written by Wendy Phelps, a US Citizen teaching English in Japan with the JET program who spent her alternative spring break learning more about the Philippines with the Green Empowerment partner, AID Foundation Inc., on the central island of Negros in May 2009. Alternative Indigenous Development Foundation...

 

Mural from Cajamarca, Peru

 

 Green Empowerment is one of three finalists for the 2009 Energy Globe Awards in the Water Category, and we couldn't be more excited! 

 

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