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Is Rio de Janeiro’s Cleanest Sewage in the Favela? Sustainable Vale Encantado Community Invites Press to Unveiling of Full Biosystem for Sewage Treatment and Solar Panels [PRESS RELEASE]

Thirty years after the Rio ’92 Earth Summit, on April 30, press conference and launch event will bring together residents and allies responsible for the sustainable project. Click here to register. [View PDF] Vale Encantado, a small, [...]
Favelas Have Doubled in 36 Years: What Does That Say About Brazil?

Recently, a number of articles have circulated in the Brazilian media reporting, with a mixture of wonder and reproach, the doubling in scale of the nation’s favelas over the past 36 years. Amid the multiple crises that have shaken Brazil over [...]
Sustainable Favela Network Launches 11 New Thematic Objectives

September 2021—This month the Sustainable Favela Network concluded a multi-month planning process engaging over 160 network members to update our approach and design our activities for the coming two years. Given the tremendous growth in the [...]
Join our webinar “The Experience of Community Land Trusts in Latin America” on October 21

Please join us for the webinar “The Experience of Community Land Trusts in Latin America”, on October 21 at 5pm EST (GMT-4). The event is being organized by Catalytic Communities’ Favela-CLT Project (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and the [...]
At 1st Sustainable Favela Network International Exchange, 5 Nations Light a Path to Climate Justice

On August 28, 2021, 258 people from 33 countries gathered online to participate our the first Sustainable Favela Network International Exchange, where twenty community organizers from informal settlements and underserved communities in five [...]
Rethinking the Future of Housing Worldwide: Favelas as a Sustainable Model with Theresa Williamson

Republished from Shareable Could Rio’s favelas offer a sustainable housing model for cities around the world? What are the impacts of over-policing black mobility in the U.S.? Are $16 tacos leading to gentrification and the emotional, cultural, [...]

Is Rio de Janeiro’s Cleanest Sewage in the Favela? Sustainable Vale Encantado Community Invites Press to Unveiling of Full Biosystem for Sewage Treatment and Solar Panels [PRESS RELEASE]

Favelas Have Doubled in 36 Years: What Does That Say About Brazil?

Sustainable Favela Network Launches 11 New Thematic Objectives

Join our webinar “The Experience of Community Land Trusts in Latin America” on October 21

At 1st Sustainable Favela Network International Exchange, 5 Nations Light a Path to Climate Justice

Rethinking the Future of Housing Worldwide: Favelas as a Sustainable Model with Theresa Williamson

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