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Awamaki Lab Puts Impoverished Weavers From Peru to Work on New Upscale Fashion Collection (Interview)
Peruvian non-profit Awamaki Lab has released an inaugural collection head up by designer Nieli Vallin, a student from Paris's Chambre Syndical de la Couture.
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10 Urban Spaces Around the World Reborn as Vibrant Green Parks (Slideshow)
In some cities, parks are replacing asphalt, and city dwellers are suddenly discovering new green space just steps away.
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10 Urban Spaces Around the World Reborn as Vibrant Green Parks
In some cities, parks are replacing asphalt, and city dwellers are suddenly discovering new green space just steps away. To make cities more livable for an often growing population, government officials, activists and citizens are reclaiming unused or a
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Peru's Asparagus Industry Is Sucking Wells Dry
Whenever I go to my mom's for dinner, there is asparagus. She's 92 and thinks that getting cheap and fresh asparagus year round from Peru is proof that all is well in the world, a gift of
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Green Invasion Turns Lima's Historical Center Into A Park (Photos)
With the goal of recovering the historical center of Peru's capital city, a group of organizations put together an event called Gran Semana de Lima or Lima's Great Week, which aimed to create new life in the streets.
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Celebrating Biodiversity in an Explosion of Colour at The Natural History Museum's Amazonia Show
In a celebration of the International Year of Biodiversity Lucy and Jorge Orta's Amazonia show at The Natural History Museum in London is a riotous display of colour and texture. This prolific pair of artists, famous for the exploration of social and
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Peru's Multi-city Festival AMO AMAZONÃA "Leaves A Positive Trace"
With numerous dire (and relatively not-so-dire) predictions about the fate of the Amazon being broadcast, it's not often that we hear something positive rising out of such a critical situation -- especially a multi-city
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First-Ever Carbon Map Shows Global Warming in Peru's Amazon
You can see the effects of global warming in a new high-resolution map that
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Can Your iPhone Save a Rainforest? Nurturing Virtual Trees to Save Real Ones
I've never been much of a gamer, but I did always enjoy the constructive challenges posed by games like SimCity and its later spin offs. That's why I kind of liked the idea of a Facebook game that lets you nurture virtual
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Record-Breaking Amazon Trek Nears Completion
853 days ago, Ed Stafford took the first steps of what would become a record-breaking trek, following the length of the Amazon river as it winds its way across the South American continent. After experiencing countless
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Peru Painting Andes White Because it Could be Cool
Four men from a village in Peru, armed with environmentally-friendly paint, are undertaking one of the most bizarre plans to combat rising temperatures in the Andes--by painting the mountains white. The hope is that more heat will be
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Photo Released to Prove Uncontacted Tribes Exist
Deep in the heart of Peru's rainforest live some of the planet's few remaining uncontacted tribesmen. But if oil executives have their way, these tribes' first introduction to the outside world will be a pipeline
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City in Peru Being Eaten By Open-Pit Mine
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Students Study Solutions for Solar-Powered Pasteurization in Peru
A group of students from Rensselaer Polytechnic has come up with a smart idea for safer milk in Peru. Currently, poorer farmers are unable to obtain market certification for their milk and dairy products because they can't
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Freaky Nose Leech Named For Its Enormous Teeth
Three years ago, after a young Peruvian girl bathed in a river, she began to experience an odd sensation in the her nose--like something was moving back there... And it turns out there was. After visiting with a local physician
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Giant Glacier Fall in Peru Causes Deadly Tsunami
A massive chunk of ice from a glacier in the Andes, measuring 1,640 feet by 656 feet, plummeted into a lake in Peru yesterday, resulting in a tsunami that swept through villages along the shore, injuring scores and carrying
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Peruvian Farmers Happy to Offset West's Carbon
Peruvian farmers are about to get a windfall--and it's all thanks to the burgeoning carbon offsetting market. Recently, one particular section of Peru was selected to be the site of a massive reforesting operation to offset CO2 emissions
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Surfer Teaches an Alpaca to Catch a Wave (Video)
Peruvian surfer Domingo Pianezzi loves to ride the waves--so much so, in fact, that he's made it his mission to share the experience with different animals he comes across. Over the years, Pianezzi has become quite
