Clique aqui para Português Initiative: SOS Jardim Gramacho Contact: Facebook | Email Year Founded: 2015 Community: Jardim Gramacho (Baixada Fluminense) Mission: To mobilize and raise awareness among neighborhood residents, incentivizing recycling Public Events: SOS Jardim […]
Clique aqui para Português In 1991, then-president Fernando Collor de Mello sent Brazil’s federal Congress a proposition of what would later become the country’s national waste management policy. The idea was to present that policy at the […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Mariana Simões published by Agência Pública click here. In the following interview, a sociologist who has studied Rio de Janeiro’s [vigilante off-duty police] militias for 26 […]
Clique aqui para Português On World Cities Day—Wednesday, October 31—Cantagalo and Pavão-Pavãozinho in Rio’s South Zone served as the meeting point for activists and community initiatives focused on waste management at the event “What do I do with […]
Clique aqui para Português Time of fear What are our fears? In the time of fear there were rotten planks, Children falling into the water, gales, storms, rats, removals… In the time of fear there […]