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ctrp395 Behind the Famine in Somalia

ctrp395 Behind the Famine in Somalia

October 17, 2011

Earlier this year a famine was declared in Somalia. It was not the first time the world had heard about a humanitarian crisis in that struggling country. How did the world respond? How did Somalia get to the state it is in today and who was involved in getting it...

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ctrp394 Education, Portugal, and the World

ctrp394 Education, Portugal, and the World

October 10, 2011

John Howard Wolf doesn't know how to fix the global economy, but he can teach us a thing or two about education. Its been his business and passion for most of his adult life.  Having immigrated from the US to Portugal in the late 1970's, even back then he...

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ctrp393 Re-inventing Ourselves and Our Homes

ctrp393 Re-inventing Ourselves and Our Homes

October 3, 2011

Erik Nelson moved from house to house as an urban dweller, never living in a space that he felt connected to. Until he found forest land that appealed to him and built his own home there.  Or as he explains it:  "While most people find a job and then...

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ctrp392 New Approaches and Proven Methods for Rural Life

ctrp392 New Approaches and Proven Methods for Rural Life

September 27, 2011

The goal to live life on their terms took Ryanne and Jay from New York City to San Francisco and eventually to Western Virginia.  It is here that this dynamic couple set out to build their own home, grow some of their own food, work on their terms, and...

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ctrp391 Post Consumer Life and Homesteading

ctrp391 Post Consumer Life and Homesteading

September 19, 2011

What happens when two New Yorkers leave their successful careers and fabulous apartments in favor of building their own house and a new kind of life on a former trailer park in New Mexico? 5 years ago Wendy Tremayn and Mikey Sklar set off to live life in a radically...

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