Clique aqui para Português Members of the Sarapuí fishing community in the Baixada Fluminense in Greater Rio find themselves in precarious economic conditions as an eco-barrier strung across the Sarapuí River has been blocking them from […]
Clique aqui para Português On September 21, a new documentary featuring sustainable initiatives in Rio de Janeiro premiered at the Odeon cinema in downtown Rio. CenaRIO Sustentabilidade em Ação (ScenaRIO Sustainability in Action) was made by […]
Recycling is an essential element of waste management for any city, and it becomes an increasingly critical issue proportionately to the size of the city and its metropolitan area. Any degree of recycling reduces the […]
For the original by Clarisse Werneck, Daniela Pereira and Ricardo Costa in Portuguese, published in Viva Favela, click here. Whoever looks at the small dozen boats moored at the beach of Caju, amongst the sea of rubbish and mud, […]
On March 22, favela upgrades and compensatory damages for garbage pickers were on the agenda at a panel on “inclusive urbanism” at Studio X Rio, a satellite project of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, […]