Clique aqui para Português On July 27, community, municipal, and environmental organizations gathered in Maré to discuss 22 years since the Guanabara Bay Remediation Program (PDBG) was initiated, and the unfortunate consequences for the region of […]
Clique aqui para Português On December 16, 2010 Mayor Eduardo Paes signed Decree 33.280 to establish Leopoldina Municipal Urban Park in the Serra da Misericórdia, located in the North Zone of Rio. In 2012, the project […]
Favelas are natural incubators for new ideas, sustainability initiatives and community-led projects. They are increasingly being recognized as models of sustainability worldwide. World Environment Day is organized annually by the United Nations to bring awareness to environmental issues around the […]
Between the smoke and the bullets of Rio’s North Zone / The Serra takes on its biggest challenge yet, becoming green / I love you, Serra da Misericórdia – Luiz Poeta, founder of Verdejar Complexo […]
By 2050, around one third of the world’s population is expected to be living in informal settlements. The processes of informal production have an essential role in growing cities around the world, as rural to urban […]