By David Siegel, Vice Chair of Green Empowerment’s Board of Directors. David is a city planner who has worked with communities domestically and internationally for over 40 years to define and carry out an intentional future. Each year, Green Empowerment conducts a field trip for a small group of board members,
Last December, Technical Manager, Elise Kittrell said “hasta la vista” to the Green Empowerment (GE) office as she embarked upon a three-month journey to Nicaragua. Over the course of her trip, she worked with implementing partners AsoFenix and ATDER-BL to help communities evaluate their water systems and better understand water,
Located in remote southwestern Colombia within the Mayasquer Awá-indigenous territory, the town of Tallambi shares many environmental, cultural, and socioeconomic characteristics with neighboring Chical, just across the border-defining San Juan River in Ecuador. However, the suspension bridge between the two communities marks a stark difference in public services. Chical’s population