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 […]
environment
#EvictionsWatch
The Story of Dona Rita
Clique aqui para Português For 12 years, Dona Rita Maria Barbosa, 56, kept an organic garden supplying her local community in Colônia Juliano Moreira (in Jacarepaguá, West Zone) with fresh fruit and vegetables and teaching […]
Civil Society
Light demolishes Verdejar’s headquarters
On Monday morning, representatives from Rio’s electricity supplier, Light, arrived unannounced at the headquarters of socio-environmental NGO Verdejar with a judicial notice for immediate eviction to clear the land for a new substation. Members of […]
Interviews & Profiles
Sitiê: From Dump to Eco-Park in Vidigal [IMAGES]
Clique aqui para Português Dull concrete, broken equipment and sparse vegetation compose Vidigal‘s official “Ecological Park.” Like many residents, Felipe Paiva of Cidade Unida (“United City”) wasn’t impressed. His voice carried more than a hint […]
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 […]