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Documenting Sustainability

Happy Earth Day!

April 22, 2010

In honor of Earth Day we thought we’d offer a little photo recap of some of the sustainability efforts we’ve seen as we’ve traveled around the world. We hope to see and document more sustainability efforts as we continue our trip. If you haven’t done so already, be sure to check out and comment on [...]

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Case Study #4: Cambodian Sustainability

April 16, 2010

We are pleased to present our 4th Sustainability Case Study today. It is a more detailed account of the three organizations (Bloom, SME-RE and RE-I) we thanked for their time here. We are also happy to showcase the Google PDF viewer we have rolled out on the site so that our readers can view Case [...]

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Panning for Gold in Laos

March 27, 2010

Are those boys are panning for gold? I learned, while kayaking on the Nam Ou River in Laos near Luang Prabang, that in fact they were. Many of the poor rural villagers in this area practice small-scale artisanal gold mining. The average family finds 24 grams of gold through panning at the river during the [...]

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