We recently received this beautiful letter from Sara Gale, a Peace Corps Volunteer (PCV) in the rural village of Rio Abajo, El Salvador, who we trained to build clean cookstoves as part of our partnership with the Peace Corps and the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas. This letter is a reminder of how […]
1.4 billion people still have no access to electricity. In cooperation with the U.S. Department of State’s Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas, Trees, Water & People (TWP) and our partners are working to bring light and energy to rural communities in Central America and Peru. Paul Winkel, who works with TWP partner PowerMundo to […]
By Jeff Soule, Senior ECPA Fellow Santiago, Chile, September 2012 Chile, like all Latin American countries, faces increased urbanization pressures in the coming years. How Chile responds to these challenges will have a large impact on its economic, social and physical well-being. Chile will have to decide its own path and system to ensure the […]