Go Green at Home

by Jenna Walker

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Saving Through the Sun

by Elissa Ewald

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Recycling Consciousness

by Frannie Fabian

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Conserving Energy Down on the Farm

by Sarah Pelham

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Agrocycle Tour

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Chase Street Walkers

by Autumn Eckenbrecht

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Palm sugar: How sweet it is

By Beth Pollak
SIEM REAP, Cambodia – Chart Chean, the patriarch and primary palm juice collector for his rural Cambodian family, hiked up the red shorts under his green krama, whipping off the traditional scarf-skirt in the process. He strapped a thick woven belt around his waist, a sheath for his large knife. It was business [...]

Helping a clean-water team in a rural village

By Frances Micklow
SIEM REAP, Cambodia – Our tuk-tuk stopped outside of a cluster of palm-leaf thatched, stilted houses that form the village of Kork Por. Motorbike exhaust mixed with the smell of animals and cooking. We broke off into our assigned groups and began a key step in the process of providing this village with [...]

Out of the jungle, a smile is born

By Nicole Meadows
SIEM REAP, Cambodia – An estimated 20,000 children and young adults here are born with a cleft lip or cleft palate.
Sokcheata was one of those children. As the story is told here, she was taken into the woods by her parents, an ill mother and alcoholic father, and abandoned. They did not [...]

High population growth rates discourage education, foster poverty

By Cindy J. Austin
SIEM REAP, Cambodia – Plong Khom has nine children. If she were able, she says, she would have more.
Khom lives in a typical provincial village here, where the population growth rate balloons. At 1.77 percent, Cambodia’s population growth rate is three times faster than neighboring Thailand and almost twice the U.S. rate.
Choosing, [...]

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