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World Water Day 2014: Rainwater collection makes a big difference in Mexico
For my entire career at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency I have focused on storm water management needs, ostensibly for municipalities and local communities: how to harvest rainwater and how...
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Happy Earth Day!
Across the globe, PCVs celebrate Earth Day every day with a variety of innovative projects. Check out our infographic to learn about 10 grassroots projects put together by PCVs!
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Examining poverty and hunger from the ground up
Several times a year throughout rural Guatemala, the scene is the same. Entire families rise with the sun to travel from their remote communities to the municipal center, often walking for hours over...
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World Environment Day all month: How 3 PCVs are tackling Peru’s environmental...
Whether their sector is agriculture, the environment, or youth and community development, PCVs around the world strive to make improvements to the their communities — and the world — in sustainable and...
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It’s World Environment Day all month: A video on how to go smokeless
After visiting Colorado State University’s Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory in the summer of 2009, Charles Hunt immediately thought of his host country, Vanuatu. The RPCVs of Colorado...
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World Environment Day all month: understanding farming and livelihoods
This story was originally published on the EPA’s It’s Our Environment blog. My experience while serving as a Peace Corps agribusiness adviser in Jamaica provided me with unique opportunities to learn,...
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Making a difference in the “Wild Kingdom”
In the fall of 1977, my wife, Diane, and I were assigned to be Peace Corps Environmental Education Specialists with the Paraguayan National Forest Service. At the time, unlike today, environmental...
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The hidden world
Jose’s love for the national park is apparent in his movements, his voice, and if you listen closely, his words. As I admire Jose’s appreciation for the park, I read something else in his eyes....
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Photo essay: Guinea Wasted
“Guinea Wasted” is a photojournalistic piece I conducted while living and working in waste management in Guinea. The piece seeks to provoke thoughtful reflection and critically-necessary discussion...
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“I have been transformed”
Giant Swallowtail What does a butterfly have to do with serving in the Peace Corps? As a Peace Corps Response Volunteer from July 2014 to March 2015, I had the opportunity to raise thousands of...
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In Nepal, planting trees for life
Trees improve nutrition and income, provide animal fodder, wood, and live fencing, and prevent erosion. Here, school students in Nepal pack out tree seedlings. Peace Corps Volunteer Steven Fosher...
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Seeing what’s out there: Camera in traps in Paraguay
A footprint in the sand, a distant call at dusk or an all-too-brief glimpse of an escaping tail is sometimes all a Volunteer will see of Paraguayan wildlife around their community. Getting that...
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From big fish in a small pond to small fish on the coral reefs
Local fisherfolk prepare to attach coral fragments to artificial reefs just below the water at one of the marine protected areas. Since the first day of my Peace Corps Response journey, I’ve had to...
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Permagardening: Climate-smart, nutrition-focused agriculture
One of the things I love most about the Peace Corps are the amazing learning opportunities we get for free. At a recent technical training, environmental Volunteers learned things like rabbit raising,...
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Penn State University alum discovers the sweet side of Peace Corps service in...
At an earlier age, Mark Goldy-Brown, of Zionsville, Pennsylvania, would always listen to his uncle tell stories about serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Africa. Since then, Mark knew he was meant to...
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Tubig, nsuo, wata, water
It goes by different names: tubig, nsuo, wata. In my childhood home, the H2O flowing through our pipes was known best as “water.” No matter what you call it or where in the world you are, water is...
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