

October 31st, 2008
CBC's Shelagh Rogers interviews CIEL's Mike Stolte on Sounds Like Canada
(LISTEN by clicking on CBC logo above) - Mike Stolte was interviewed by Shelagh Rogers on her...
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October 30th, 2008
CIEL Announces Winners of 2008 Entrepreneurship and Innovation Awards
Nelson, BC - An arts organization and a scientist are the 2008 winners of two annual awards for the...
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September 12th, 2008
Latin Americans Look to Kootenays for Community-Building Tools
Nelson, BC - A pair or top researchers from South America were in the Kootenays this week to check...
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