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Susan Davis, WaterPartners International
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06 Feb 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Susan Davis is the director of outreach for WaterPartners International, a nonprofit organization that addresses the water supply and sanitation needs of people living in developing countries. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 06 Feb 2001 NEW YORK, N.Y. I got an email from my boss, Gary White, who's in Ethiopia as part of a collaborative effort with the Glimmer of Hope Foundation. This foundation, based in Austin, Texas, was established last year with ... |
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Susan Davis, WaterPartners International
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05 Feb 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Susan Davis is the director of outreach for WaterPartners International, a nonprofit organization that addresses the water supply and sanitation needs of people living in developing countries. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 05 Feb 2001 NEW YORK, N.Y. Today, like every day, more than 25,000 people die because of unsafe water. In developing countries, more than a billion people lack access to safe drinking water. The world's number one killer is unsafe ... |
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Susan Tixier, Great Old Broads for Wilderness
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26 Jan 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Susan Tixier is a 59-year-old grandmother who lives in a trailer in Escalante, Utah, pretending to manage the Great Old Broads for Wilderness, "unmanageable by any earthly force though they are." She sits on the boards of several other environmental groups in the West. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 26 Jan 2001 ESCALANTE, Utah "What would you say that the main theme of your poetry is?" "To put it as simply as possibl ... |
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Susan Tixier, Great Old Broads for Wilderness
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24 Jan 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Susan Tixier is a 59-year-old grandmother who lives in a trailer in Escalante, Utah, pretending to manage the Great Old Broads for Wilderness, "unmanageable by any earthly force though they are." She sits on the boards of several other environmental groups in the West. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 24 Jan 2001 ESCALANTE, Utah We have met the enemy, and he is us, too! -- (paraphrasing POGO) Broads on a Broadwalk. Photo: Great Old Br ... |
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Susan Tixier, Great Old Broads for Wilderness
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24 Jan 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Susan Tixier is a 59-year-old grandmother who lives in a trailer in Escalante, Utah, pretending to manage the Great Old Broads for Wilderness, "unmanageable by any earthly force though they are." She sits on the boards of several other environmental groups in the West. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 24 Jan 2001 ESCALANTE, Utah In the next century or the one beyond that they say, are valleys, pastures. We can meet there in pe ... |
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Susan Tixier, Great Old Broads for Wilderness
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23 Jan 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Susan Tixier is a 59-year-old grandmother who lives in a trailer in Escalante, Utah, pretending to manage the Great Old Broads for Wilderness, "unmanageable by any earthly force though they are." She sits on the boards of several other environmental groups in the West. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 23 Jan 2001 ESCALANTE, Utah Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthl ... |
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Susan Tixier, Great Old Broads for Wilderness
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22 Jan 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Susan Tixier is a 59-year-old grandmother who lives in a trailer in Escalante, Utah, pretending to manage the Great Old Broads for Wilderness, "unmanageable by any earthly force though they are." She sits on the boards of several other environmental groups in the West. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 22 Jan 2001 ESCALANTE, Utah But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As ... |
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Marta Echavarria, EcoDecision
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19 Jan 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Marta Echavarria is a founder of EcoDecision, an environmental business promotion firm based in Ecuador and Colombia. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Friday, 19 Jan 2001 QUITO, Ecuador What a long and intense day! Our committee held a meeting with the minister of mines and energy and the president of the state oil company, Petroecuador. To our surprise, the meeting was attended by representatives from OCP Ltd., at the request of the government. After a short introduction, w ... |
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Marta Echavarria, EcoDecision
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18 Jan 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Marta Echavarria is a founder of EcoDecision, an environmental business promotion firm based in Ecuador and Colombia. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Thursday, 18 Jan 2001 QUITO, Ecuador The front-page news today states that the attorney general will not approve the pipeline contract in the two weeks allotted to him for review. Maybe we have more time. I sit down to try to work on my own affairs: I am an environmental consultant specializing in environmental evaluation and ... |
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Marta Echavarria, EcoDecision
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17 Jan 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Marta Echavarria is a founder of EcoDecision, an environmental business promotion firm based in Ecuador and Colombia. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Wednesday, 17 Jan 2001 QUITO, Ecuador In November, I was asked to act as coordinator of the committee Pro Ruta Menor Impacto, a group composed of organizations and individuals representing a wide range of sectors: tourism, local governments, the environment, communities, and agriculture. We have attempted to assemble a group r ... |
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Marta Echavarria, EcoDecision
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16 Jan 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Marta Echavarria is a founder of EcoDecision, an environmental business promotion firm based in Ecuador and Colombia. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Tuesday, 16 Jan 2001 QUITO, Ecuador Here I am, an environmental manager who has worked with private Latin American companies for over 13 years, sitting on the other side of the table. Since November, I have been actively involved in a group opposing the northern route of a proposed oil pipeline to be built this year through no ... |
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Corinna Riginos, Fulbright scholar
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12 Jan 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Corinna Riginos is a Fulbright scholar in South Africa studying overgrazing in the Succulent Karoo. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 12 Jan 2001 PAULSHOEK, South Africa I am awake by 6. It's my schedule, these days. But I do take time to enjoy my breakfast, then pack up the contents of my matjies hut. I will miss the hut until next month. We pack everything away into the bakkie and camper, bit by bit. There are many little components of this and that ... |
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Corinna Riginos, Fulbright scholar
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11 Jan 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Corinna Riginos is a Fulbright scholar in South Africa studying overgrazing in the Succulent Karoo. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 11 Jan 2001 PAULSHOEK, South Africa Today, I sleep until the luxurious hour of 6:30, when I'm awakened by the sound of Timm unloading the food crates from the camper. He says he wakes up earlier and earlier all week in Paulshoek, so by today, Thursday, he will have been up since 4. It is hot outside already, foreshadowing ... |
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Corinna Riginos, Fulbright scholar
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10 Jan 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Corinna Riginos is a Fulbright scholar in South Africa studying overgrazing in the Succulent Karoo. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 10 Jan 2001 PAULSHOEK, South Africa My alarm blares in my ear: 5 a.m. Up. No wasting time this morning. But it is so beautiful outside, all the brilliant predawn colors smeared across the hills! I could sit and gawk for ages ... but no, we must be at the kraal before sunrise. Timm is already up and boiling the water for ... |
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Corinna Riginos, Fulbright scholar
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09 Jan 2001 |
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| Corinna Riginos is a Fulbright scholar in South Africa studying overgrazing in the Succulent Karoo. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 09 Jan 2001 PAULSHOEK, South Africa At 5:45 a.m., the first rays of sunlight come through the walls of my hut, and I roll over to glance at my watch. Time to get up. Heavy sleeping-bag-sleep is still upon me as I pull on my pants and boots, then head down to the "Enviro-loo," a composting toilet with such a splen ... |
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Corinna Riginos, Fulbright scholar
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08 Jan 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Corinna Riginos is a Fulbright scholar in South Africa studying overgrazing in the Succulent Karoo. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 08 Jan 2001 STELLENBOSCH, South Africa Timm, the leader of the project I am working on, buzzes up to my apartment at 6:30 this morning. I come down with all my stuff for the week, which is not all that much: sleeping bag and ground pad, a few outer layers of clothing, an extra T-shirt (in case the one I'm wearing becomes a bit ... |
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Jeff Ruch, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility
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15 Dec 2000 |
Dispatches |
| Jeff Ruch is executive director of PEER, a service organization helping federal, state, and local agency scientists, law enforcement officers, land managers, and other professionals uphold environmental values within public service. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 15 Dec 2000 WASHINGTON, D.C. Virtually every day, I hear an account from a public employee about an agency manager who is rewarded for doing the "wrong thing" ... |
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Jeff Ruch, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility
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14 Dec 2000 |
Dispatches |
| Jeff Ruch is executive director of PEER, a service organization helping federal, state, and local agency scientists, law enforcement officers, land managers, and other professionals uphold environmental values within public service. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 14 Dec 2000 WASHINGTON, D.C. I work inside the fabled "Beltway." Every morning, I subway to our Dupont Circle office. Most days are spent on phone calls, m ... |
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Jeff Ruch, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility
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13 Dec 2000 |
Dispatches |
| Jeff Ruch is executive director of PEER, a service organization helping federal, state, and local agency scientists, law enforcement officers, land managers, and other professionals uphold environmental values within public service. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 13 Dec 2000 WASHINGTON, D.C. Sometimes public employees are treated as symbols rather than as people. Because he or she represents the government, the person wearing ... |
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Jeff Ruch, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility
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12 Dec 2000 |
Dispatches |
| Jeff Ruch is executive director of PEER, a service organization helping federal, state, and local agency scientists, law enforcement officers, land managers, and other professionals uphold environmental values within public service. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 12 Dec 2000 WASHINGTON, D.C. This evening, I actually got misty-eyed watching one of PEER's members and clients receive an award for public service from an organization ... |
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Jeff Ruch, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility
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11 Dec 2000 |
Dispatches |
| Jeff Ruch is executive director of PEER, a service organization helping federal, state, and local agency scientists, law enforcement officers, land managers, and other professionals uphold environmental values within public service. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 11 Dec 2000 WASHINGTON, D.C. Most days begin with a phone call. This particular call came from an Arizona State Parks naturalist named Matt Chew. Like many people who ... |
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Albert Bates, Ecovillage Network of the Americas
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08 Dec 2000 |
Dispatches |
| Albert Bates is regional secretary for the Americas of the Global Ecovillage Network. He is also the principal founder of the Institute for Appropriate Technology in Tennessee, where he has taught sustainable design, natural building, agriculture, and technology. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 08 Dec 2000 RESERVA INTEGRAL SASARDI, Colombia Most of us crashed early last night, although a few lasted through Enrique's raw video footage of Boli ... |
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Albert Bates, Ecovillage Network of the Americas
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07 Dec 2000 |
Dispatches |
| Albert Bates is regional secretary for the Americas of the Global Ecovillage Network. He is also the principal founder of the Institute for Appropriate Technology in Tennessee, where he has taught sustainable design, natural building, agriculture, and technology. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 07 Dec 2000 RESERVA INTEGRAL SASARDI, Colombia Today, a local hummingbird, the white-bearded hermit (Phaethornis hispidis), visited our council mee ... |
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Albert Bates, Ecovillage Network of the Americas
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06 Dec 2000 |
Dispatches |
| Albert Bates is regional secretary for the Americas of the Global Ecovillage Network. He is also the principal founder of the Institute for Appropriate Technology in Tennessee, where he has taught sustainable design, natural building, agriculture, and technology. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 06 Dec 2000 RESERVA INTEGRAL SASARDI, Colombia At 6 a.m., our group assembled in the Unguia Square and trucked over to the waiting panga boat for ... |
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Albert Bates, Ecovillage Network of the Americas
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05 Dec 2000 |
Dispatches |
| Albert Bates is regional secretary for the Americas of the Global Ecovillage Network. He is also the principal founder of the Institute for Appropriate Technology in Tennessee, where he has taught sustainable design, natural building, agriculture, and technology. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 05 Dec 2000 GILGAL, Colombia Today, Liora and I enlisted some local motorcycle riders to take us on an excursion to Gilgal, 30 clicks south of Ungui ... |
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