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Green Empowerment Receives Energy Globe Award for Nicaragua

Many thanks to the Energy Globe Foundation for awarding Green Empowerment with an award for our revolving solar credit fund in Northern Nicaragua. This project was designed to help tackle ...
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Building Resilient Communities and Supporting Market Participation in the Bolivian Highlands

Written by Andrea Johnson, Green Empowerment Executive Director Green Empowerment has worked in Bolivia since 2016 with partner, Practical Action. The majority of our projects, including our first project along ...
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Farewell, Elise!

Written by Executive Director, Andrea Johnson It is with mixed emotions that Green Empowerment says farewell to Elise Kittrell, our Technical Manager and Peru and Bolivia Program Lead. Elise will ...
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Washington State University Travels to Ecuador!

Written by Green Empowerment Operations Manager, Martin Olza and Trip Participant, Danielle Keerbs This spring, students and faculty from Washington State University traveled to Ecuador with Green Empowerment to help advance our projects ...
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Green Empowerment Receives GPSEN Sustainability Leadership Award!

Many thanks to GPSEN for recognizing Green Empowerment with its Nonprofit Sustainability Leadership Award. On March 8th, Green Empowerment accepted a leadership award at the Greater Portland Sustainability and Education ...
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Today, We Celebrate Women

Written by Kristen Grauer, Development ManagerGreen Empowerment is a small organization run predominately by women. In Portland and abroad we educate and empower female leaders in sustainability - from engineers to ...
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A World Powered by Poop?

Written by Green Empowerment Technical Manager, Elise KittrellA world powered by poop. Poop you say? Gross, right? Well not for the RedBioLAC, a consortium of biogas practitioners in Latin America ...
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Solar Power for Clinics in Lay Kay Kaw

Written by Asia Regional Director, Gabe Wynn A mere two hours from the peaceful border town of Mae Sot lies the Karen refugee community of Lay Kay Kaw. In this ...
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Join us in building resilience.

Written by Latin America Regional Director, Caitlyn Peake Dear friends, It's easy to feel disheartened when stories of conflict, poverty and displacement dominate the news. When headlines fill us with fear ...
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Strengthening Micro-hydro Technology in Southeast Asia

Written by Elsa Frey, Green Empowerment Program Manager We are pleased to announce that Green Empowerment (GE) has been awarded funding by the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy ...
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