Solutions
Santa Margarida: A West Zone Community
The neighborhood of Santa Margarida, in the West Zone of Rio, is home to 5,000, many of whom depend on bicycles for local transit and who pitch in to clean up the neighborhood. The Vice […]
Sustainability
Event Reports
Celebration in the Face of Adversity in Pica-Pau
Residents, local businesses and the church of the Pica-Pau favela in Cordovil came together in a fun-filled celebration of the Resident´s Association´s 45th anniversary last Saturday May 26th. Children´s activities, live music, a prize raffle […]
Solutions
Permaculture, Agroforestry, Organic Foods, and More You Don’t Associate with Alemão…
Clique aqui para Português Complexo do Alemão, a complex of favelas in Rio’s North Zone, is perhaps best known for its history of violence related to drug trafficking and police occupation. However, project members of […]
Sustainability
There will be a disaster, and the Prefeitura knows
Clique aqui para Português “If this house falls,… it will take everything else (on the hillside) down with it. There will be a total disaster, and the Prefeitura (City) knows it,” says Irenaldo Honrário da […]
Favela Qualities
Eco-walks, Recycling, Rights & Duties in Penha
Rarely are rights and obligations emphasized as two sides of the same coin as is systematically done by Associação da Conscientizção dos Direitos e Deveres das Comunidades do Estado no Rio de Janeiro (ACONDEC), an […]