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Sign Up: 1st National Sustainable Favela Network Exchange with Indigenous, Quilombola Leaders (English/Spanish on Zoom)

You are invited to the 1st ever national exchange of the Sustainable Favela Network! Join us on Zoom (Portuguese, English and Spanish) and YouTube (Portuguese) on Tuesday, June 6, for an inspiring knowledge exchange and cultural circle with the [...]
First ‘Energy Efficiency in the Favelas’ Report Reveals New Insights About the Impacts of Energy Inefficient Services and Use on Poverty and Inequality

Citizen-researchers interview neighbors as part of the study that resulted in the Energy Efficiency in the Favelas report. Photo: Luiza de Andrade The collectives responsible for the Covid-19 in Favelas Unified Dashboard and the report Water and [...]
ENGLISH LAUNCH: Energy and Water Justice in the Favelas Report

April 7, 2023—The report “Water and Energy Justice in the Favelas: Favela Researchers Gather Data Revealing Inequalities and Calling for Action” with unprecedented data on access, quality and efficiency of water and electricity, [...]
NOW AVAILABLE—COMMUNITY MATTERS: Conversations With Reflective Practitioners about the Value and Variety of Resident Engagement in CLTs

December 20, 2022—Now available for download, Community Matters: Conversations With Reflective Practitioners about the Value and Variety of Resident Engagement in Community Land Trusts is a collection of interviews with reflective practitioners [...]
New Paths for Building Sustainable Cities: The Potential of Collective Land Management Based on the Community Land Trust

Clique aqui para Português As part of the UN’s Urban October’s Urban Circuit 2022 and World CLT Day 2022, the Favela Community Land Trust Project* held the webinar ‘New Paths for Building Sustainable Cities: The Potential of [...]
CatComm Awarded Brazilian Federation of Architects and Urbanists Prize 2022

On November 26, 2022 Catalytic Communities (CatComm) was awarded the 2022 Brazilian Federation of Architects and Urbanists Prize (FNA—Federação Nacional dos Arquitetos e Urbanistas), for our contributions to Brazilian cities. Below is a full [...]

Sign Up: 1st National Sustainable Favela Network Exchange with Indigenous, Quilombola Leaders (English/Spanish on Zoom)

First ‘Energy Efficiency in the Favelas’ Report Reveals New Insights About the Impacts of Energy Inefficient Services and Use on Poverty and Inequality

ENGLISH LAUNCH: Energy and Water Justice in the Favelas Report

NOW AVAILABLE—COMMUNITY MATTERS: Conversations With Reflective Practitioners about the Value and Variety of Resident Engagement in CLTs

New Paths for Building Sustainable Cities: The Potential of Collective Land Management Based on the Community Land Trust

CatComm Awarded Brazilian Federation of Architects and Urbanists Prize 2022

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