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		<title>Global Institute for Tomorrow: Young Leaders Program, Hong Kong and Indonesia</title>
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From November 30 &#8211; December 12, Salud del Sol&#8217;s Director of Development, Anna Young, will be participating in the Young Leaders Program of the Global Insitute For Tomorrow, an independent social venture think tank dedicated to advancing understanding of the impacts of globalization.
The Program begins with 4 days of classroom learning in Hong Kong, with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.saluddelsol.org/2009/11/global-institute-for-tomorrow-young-leaders-program-hong-kong-and-indonesia/</link>
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		<title>Concentrated Solar Power Technology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Brief Overview of Concentrated Solar Power Technology
By Matt Pittinger
Two main types of solar power plants dominate the utility industry today, Photo voltaic power plants (PV) are large arrays of solar panels grouped together to produce electricity.  These solar panels, very similar to panels you can put on your house, use light photons that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.saluddelsol.org/2009/11/concentrated-solar-power-technology/</link>
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		<title>Solar Culture Course in Nicaragua, January 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Solar Culture Course in Nicaragua,
hosted by Grupo Fenix
4 -14 January 2010
Come to Nicaragua and engage your head, heart, and hands in the real work of developing countries. Our hands-on courses allow you to be immersed in the daily life of rural Nicaraguans by living with host families and working alongside local community members to create [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.saluddelsol.org/2009/10/solar-culture-course-in-nicaragua-january-2010/</link>
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		<title>Future Solar Autoclave Research &#8211; September 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Upcoming Work Stateside and Abroad
Now that Daniel and the ETHOS Field Team have had a good chance to work in Nicaragua with the solar autoclave design produced last year, the research will be continued in several different locations by different prospecting minds.

Firstly, Erin Sutton, a third-year Mechanical Engineering major at the University of Dayton [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tranquila como Camila</title>
		<description><![CDATA[¡Buenas Días!
Just right off the bat here, I should warn you that I have had a pretty productive week with the autoclave, so this blog is bound to be pretty boring  
On the 27th, 22 elementary teachers arrived from California on a minibus packed to capacity and with a mountain of luggage on top. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.saluddelsol.org/2009/08/tranquila-como-camila/</link>
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		<title>¿It´s August Already?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Holy cow, July flew by!
Picking up from last time&#8230;.
Satrurday we went to the club, nothing to exciting there&#8230;  Sunday we went to watch one of our Nicaraguan coworkers play baseball, then went to a place about a 1/2 hour bus ride away from here that has waterfalls and the water is said to be holy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.saluddelsol.org/2009/08/%c2%bfit%c2%b4s-august-already/</link>
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		<title>Zip Lining, Truckbeds, Chocolate, and Rocks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday we went zip lining through a canopy tour on volcano Mombacho. It was amazing. I think I may have incurred some head trama when we were riding up the mountain because basically no one drives on the ´road´ and it is very rocky. The tour itself was just the right mix of an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.saluddelsol.org/2009/07/zip-lining-truckbeds-chocolate-and-rocks/</link>
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		<title>Tips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since January, I have been working at Whole Day Café, a locally-owned coffee/sandwhich/pastry shop in Wadsworth, Ohio.  There, we do not accept tips.  However, if tips are left, they are donated to a good cause, such as an orphanage in Guatemala or Relay for Life.  Tips for the months of June and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Rotary Connection?!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While the on-site blogs are certainly much more exciting, some exciting developments have been taking place on the home-front, too, that I would like to share.
On Thursday, July 2nd, I was invited to speak at my hometown&#8217;s Rotary Club.  I was asked to tell the Wadsworth Rotary Club about my experience in Nicaragua and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.saluddelsol.org/2009/07/another-rotary-connection/</link>
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		<title>Ziplines!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello All,
We all went on vacation in Southern Nicaragua last weekend!  First, Maria and I ate lunch at the Papa John´s in Masaya on Friday to fuel up for some power shopping.  The town has two markets, the old artisan market in a colonial fort and a new market close to the bus [...]]]></description>
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