If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed.Before I post the next chapter of our travels in Burkina Faso, I think I should take some time to address a comment that was made on my last post.
The commenter raised some really important questions, and I don’t think we can over-explain [...]

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The following is another excerpt from the story of our travels to Burkina Faso.  Read along as we brave the Metro in Paris, become red with African Dust in Burkina Faso, and climb rickety ladders to reach rooftops.  Our intent?  To learn more about Earth Roofs in the Sahel and to see for ourselves the [...]

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The following is another excerpt from the story of our travels to Burkina Faso. Read along as we brave the Metro in Paris, become red with African Dust, and climb rickety ladders to reach rooftops. Our intent? To learn more about Earth Roofs in the Sahel and to see for ourselves the [...]

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The following is another excerpt from the story of our travels to Burkina Faso.  Read along as we brave the Metro in Paris, become red with African Dust, and climb rickety ladders to reach rooftops.  Our intent?  To learn more about Earth Roofs in the Sahel and to see for ourselves the life-changing effect of [...]

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The following is another excerpt from the story of our travels to Burkina Faso. Read along as we brave the Metro in Paris, become red with African Dust, and climb rickety ladders to reach rooftops. Our intent? To learn more about Earth Roofs in the Sahel and to see for ourselves the [...]

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(Today I’m posting the beginning of my travel log of our journey to Burkina Faso. I’ll be updating this series a few times a week with tales all the way from Paris to West Africa. Don’t be confused by my present tense writing; I’m not actually there anymore, but sharing our experiences the way [...]

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Today is our last “official” work-day for 2007. We’re all taking next week to be with our families and loved ones over the holidays, so we won’t be posting again until after break (unless we just can’t help ourselves!).
But we’ve got some cool stuff to share with you in the first month [...]

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I actually never thought of it until tonight, why people were called tree-huggers. I guess I just assumed is was because there were crazy environmentalists who hugged trees (and perhaps there are).
But this article helps us understand tree-huggers of a different nature.
I guess it resonates with me a bit [...]

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Watch this thing tick away for a while….

Amount American’s Have Spent on Oil in
2007
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Ecuador is the home of UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, the Yasuní National Park. The park is 9,820 square kilometers primarily covered in Amazonian rainforest. Underneath this rainforest lies the Ishpingo Tambococha Tiputini oilfields, which if tapped by Ecuador, could produce around $700m a year.
Here’s where President Rafael Correa poses the question to the international community at [...]

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