Tag: Social Justice
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Women, river and development
When they cut down the trees, it was like my arms were taken away It was the phrase a Rioloreña native girl spoke at the Muralism Festival held in Rioloro and Nueva Veracruz in 2017 regarding the construction of the El Quimbo hydroelectric plant in Huila, Colombia. Being a city girl, without living direct consequences…
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Are renewable energy systems as clean as they seem?
“The local people started to use the solar panels like rackets to play Ping Pong” said a teacher in my Renewable Energy class a few years ago when I was still in college. He was talking about a solar system project implemented in one of the many poor towns located in Colombia. I remember his…