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April 30, 2008

Encouraging Sustainability, One Village at a Time
Forest Raub of Ohio Wesleyan University reflects on his Spring Break Mission Trip to Nicaragua with Sustainable Harvest International.

Forrest Raub '09 already had an interest in joining the Peace Corps, but making the trek to Nicaragua during this year's Spring Break Mission Trip reinforced his dream...  Click here to read more.

January 2008

Charities: A sham?
Triple Pundit
Paul Smith of GreenSmith Consulting asks, "Are you ambivalent about giving to charities? You're not alone, and in fact, in an recent article in Ode magazine called "No More Charity Please!" they profiled the head of an organization that actively opposes charity..."  Click here to read more.

November 2007

Where Seed Money is a Gift
Bangor Daily News

Struggling to find a Christmas gift that doesn't carry with it the inevitable air of capitalism?  What about enough seeds to plant a small field of cacao to produce chocolate, or a wood-conserving stove or 200 acres of tropical rain forest?  Click here to read more.

July 2007

In an interview with Grist, GreenPrint CEO, Hayden Hamilton, calls SHI his "Environmental Hero"

Who is your environmental hero?

I am incredibly impressed with the work Sustainable Harvest International is doing. It seems like an ingenious model -- pay people in the developing world a good living wage to plant trees that reduce CO2 (and often help feed the community) and provide a real alternative to slash-and-burn and other types of work that are environmentally harmful. It's a tremendous win-win and incredibly cost effective.
Click here to read the full interview.

June 2007

South Portland - Cape Elizabeth Rotary Visits SHI Honduras SPCE Rotary President, John Eliassen, said in a recent interview about his experience with SHI in Honduras, "If efforts are not made to teach poor farmers how to run sustainable operations, they will be forced to leave the area because there will be nothing left to live on. The [Honduran] farmers' plight is not much different than that of small farmers in the U.S." Click here to read the full interview.

April 2007

Helping Central American Farmers Learn to Help Themselves
Portland Press Herald - Maine Sunday Telegram
Interview with SHI President Florence Reed on her work with farming communities in Central America.

How environmentally aware are Central American farmers about the impact their practices have on the bigger picture?

  It is very obvious to them that their practices degrade the land through erosion of the topsoils since this leads to decreased agricultural productivity and the need to constantly clear and burn more land...  Click here to read the full interview.

Alumna Sews Seeds of Change

The New Hampshire
SHI President Florence Reed returned to UNH to speak with students about her experiences at UNH and how they helped her begain her own non-profit organization.  "I was really a better activist than a student," said Reed, chuckling. While at UNH she campaigned with others to help save the rainforests, which was the environmental crisis of the time, similar to today's issues of global warming.  Click here to read the full article.

March 2007

Want to help?  Go on a trip
Volunteer vacation become more popular
Associated Press Chicago
Mike Wood, left, and Nana Mensah are seen filling in the cement base of a composting latrine on Feb. 24, at a farm in Terreritos, Honduras. The assistant high school principal is one of several Americans who have volunteered their vacations for a charitable or humanitarian purpose.
Click here to read the AP article on msnbc

July 2006

Living Service:  Volunteers from St. Andrew's School Work with SHI Honduras 

Students, alumni and friends for St. Andrew's School took part in a Smaller World Service Trip with Sustaionable Harvest's Honduras Program in June.  Dave DeSalvo, assistant chaplain and co-chair of the math department at St. Andrew's School, traveled with the group and shares his experience of living service: "As an ordained priest, I have been restless in my ministry as a chaplain and teacher at St. Andrews School. The commission of a priest is to love and serve others, caring alike for young and old, strong and weak, rich and poor. It was to fulfill this charge that I decided..."
Click here to read more.

April 2006

Anne Stoops, SHI supporter and member of the Peterborough Unitarian Universalist Church, shares memories of her visit with SHI's programs in Montilimar Honduras, "...The frosting on the cake was when Iri, on our tromp back up the steep return, spontaneously gave me a push from behind (which Ward caught in a photo) kindly, with lots of giggles, and real heart. We hugged at the top of the hill.  Never such a day!!"  Click here to read the Unitarian Universalist Association article, Honoring "The Blue Green Hills of Earth."

November/December 2004

Vegetarian Times Magazine Features SHI  

Vegetarian Times magazine celebrates its 30th issue in November/December 2004. In a new section titled who2give2, the editors feature five charities that exemplify vegetarian values. We are pleased to find SHI among such important groups as Project Open Hand, Hearts United for Animals, Bread & Jams, Inc. and our partner organization in Belize, Plenty International. SHI has been selected for this article because of the support we offer farmers who want to grow food for their families using sustainable methods.

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