by Community Contributors
Sustainable Glass
Clique aqui para Português Climbing one of the many slopes of Morro da Pedreira in Costa Barros in Rio de Janeiro’s North Zone, you might not guess you’d find a father up here with a […]
recycling
Favela Culture
Discover Favela Design!
Clique aqui para Português The exhibition O Design da Favela (Favela Design) at the Centro Carioca de Design (Carioca Design Center) is currently showing 125 pieces by artists, artisans and inventors from 15 communities in Rio de Janeiro, with […]
Policies
Waste Land Pickers Struggle from Landfill Closure
As the closing of Rio’s giant Jardim Gramacho landfill is presented at Rio+20 as an example of substituting an untreated open facility for a modern waste treatment plant, the community that worked there as the […]
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 […]
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 […]