Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

After she co-founded the Foundation For Friends of Nature in Bolivia, a million acres of natural habitat were put in to public trust. They persuaded her to run the place long enough to get it back on its feet. When she ran the Nature Conservancy in Louisiana, 200,000 acres were set aside. Coming Back Home and a Challenge of a Lifetime.

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Award Louisiana Bolivia Hurricane 78

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OCTOBER 20, 2008

Bloggers, activists and friends gathered at our office to watch The New Silver , a film about a woman in Bolivia who is fighting to build a better life for her family with the help of microcredit. CARE fights root causes of poverty in the world’s poorest communities.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2011

Dell says that a full life span for a garden-variety lithium-ion laptop battery is 18 to 24 months. The average life span of a cell phone, however, is only 18 months , so a single battery should last the lifetime of a mobile phone. to find the closest place to properly recycle it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

One of their programs is the Reality Tours, where they bring groups of individuals to regions to look at the social justice issues and other pressing issues, that really color the experience and the culture of a place. So our first exchange that we did with Global Exchange was called "Transformative Advocacy in Bolivia."

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I think some of the folks who are listening may have had a vision for something, an idea that they thought would make the world a better place. After that I decided to move back to Portland, because I felt Portland, Oregon was an amazing place to start a vision. I realize now that it wasn't an accident, this life journey.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

That was happening as a result of a pernicious rumor, which is floated, essentially, by the traditional healers there, and in other places. What I wanted to learn next, because I had lived my working life inside of large corporations, was about woman entrepreneurs. I had written many business reports, nothing else.

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