Biodiversity way finder points through Rocinha.
Italian journalist, Eliano Rossi, at the Rocinha Mais Verde site. This week I led Italian journalist Eliano Rossi, and some Dutch journalists led by Tommaso Sarri, through Rocinha several times. […]
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Natureza Art & Science Symposia
I was invited to participate in the NATUREZA ARTE CIENCIA INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIO 2012 at Belo Horizonte in Minas Gerais with gracious support from the Governo de Minas Gerais and Vivo […]
Cultivating Restorative Spaces
Sarah and Courtney are two senior students from Princeton University who are working in areas of global health and urban development. They are based in Rio for the 2012 summer […]
Community Interest in Home Gardening
Thanks to Rocinha Mundo da Arte for organizing and hosting community meetings leading up to Rio+20! Community feedback told us most people were interested in having some kind of home […]
John Parnell visits the garden
John Parnell, Staff Writer for Responding to Climate Change, which shadows the UN, visited the Rocinha Mais Verde project at Rocinha, and talked with myself, Tio Lino, and Zoe Roller, […]
GMF at Inclusive and Integrated Cities
Hello, I have been lucky enough to attend some of the Rio+20 sustainable development conferences in the last couple of days, thanks to Alban Drouet. There is a very interesting […]
RMV/GMF project to be presented at Rio+20 summt
I am proud to announce that Rocinha Mais Verde / Green My Favela has been selected to be presented at the United Nations Rio+20 Summit on Sustainable Development. We hope […]
19 May transplanting
GMF transplanted our seedlings into the ground on Saturday at the Rocinha Mais Verde site. It was a chaotic day. We are starting to see real difficulties appearing in the […]
May Planting
On May 7, 2012 we got the kids together and planted our first edibles. The kids also created signage for the starts, and we did a bunch of seed studies […]
Intern at GMF
Michelle Alger-Mintie is an exchange student at PUC in Rio de Janeiro. Michelle comes from the Environmental Studies department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and will graduate from […]