environmental education

Agroecological Collective Action Brings Fishing Community Together With Partners to Plant and Launch Remanso Beach Fair in Suruí, Magé

By Bárbara Dias • Translation by Sia Kulkarni • August 6, 2026

Clique aqui para Português The Agroecological Collective Action held at the headquarters of the Remanso Beach Fishers’ Association (APAR) in Suruí, Magé, a municipality in Greater Rio de Janeiro’s Baixada Fluminense region, brought together residents, […]

Award-Winning Middle School in Penha Favela Hosts Gardening Collective Action Engaging Passionate Young Environmental Leaders

Clique aqui para Português Two years ago, classes at the Brant Horta Technological Municipal School (GET Brant Horta), located in Penha, a complex of favelas and surrounding neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro’s North Zone, resumed […]

The ‘Carolinas of Jacutinga’ Promote Recycling, Women’s Dignity, Art, Environmental Education, Heritage and Sustainable Development Across Five Cities in Greater Rio

By Fabio Leon • Translation by Matheus Mota • March 22, 2026

Clique aqui para Português This article is part of a series created in partnership with the Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies at San Diego State University, to produce articles for the Digital Brazil Project on environmental justice in the favelas […]

‘We’re Planting the Future’: Reforestation Collective Action in Salgueiro Recovers Land Prone to Fires and Landslides with Native Atlantic Forest Fruit Trees

By Amanda Baroni Lopes • Translation by Kay Alvito • December 22, 2025

Clique aqui para Português This article is part of a series created in partnership with the Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies at San Diego State University, to produce articles for the Digital Brazil Project on environmental justice in the favelas […]

In Rio, 2nd Sustainable Favela Festival ‘Favelas at the Center of Climate Solutions’ Engages 1300 and Launches ‘COP30 Letter From the World’s Informal Settlements’: ‘Nothing That Impacts Us, Without Us!’

By Bárbara Dias • Translation by Staff • November 11, 2025

Clique aqui para Português Bringing together 1,300 people on Saturday, October 18, at Fundição Progresso in Lapa, downtown Rio de Janeiro, the 2nd Sustainable Favela Festival featured 140 activities in a rich exchange of […]