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"At nearly 150 acres, the Jardim Gramacho landfill in Rio de Janeiro was one of the largest and most infamous in all of Latin America. Now it’s a mangrove forest teeming with life.

Decommissioned 11 years ago, between 1970 and 2012 the dump, bordering Rio’s famous Guanabara Bay, received 80 million metric tonnes of trash from the area’s Gramacho neighborhood.

Now, a public-private partnership led by the Rio Municipal Cleaning Company has returned the area to nature, specifically mangroves, one of the most valuable of all ecosystems.

Planting 24 acres of mangroves at a time, today the forest stretches out more than 120 acres and is the largest mangrove area of the bay.

“Before, we polluted the bay and the rivers. Now, it’s the bay and the rivers that pollute us,” a lead official on the project told Africa News. “Today, the mangrove has completely recovered.”

Other organizations have taken action to restore mangroves along the bay as well. The non-profit Ocean Pact funded the Green Guanabara Bay Project which successfully restored 12.5 hectares or around 25 acres of mangroves.

According to some estimates, 1 acre of mangrove forests can store more carbon in roots and soil than 4 acres of even the most biodiverse rainforest, making them paramount to any world climate mitigation strategy.

Furthermore, their impressive lattice work of roots and insane durability means that storm surges impacting mangroves lose about 66% of their kinetic energy without even destroying the trees.

Lastly, coastal fishing communities, in [four] words, cannot exist without mangroves. They act as nurseries and perfect habitat for all kinds of fish and crustaceans that small-scale fishermen rely on for their daily bread."

-via Good News Network, 7/31/23

-video via Africanews, July 26, 2023

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Vik Muniz   (BR, 1961)

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Medusa, After Caravaggio (from Pictures of Junk), 2009. Digital dye coupler 88 × 71 in | 223.5 × 180.3 cm

Muniz’s art and his interest in activism often directly intersect, as in his photographic series “Pictures of Junk.” Muniz hired catadores (garbage collectors) to collect material and to serve as models for the figures in the famous works of art on which his images are based. The story was subject of Waste Land (2010) -an Oscar-nominated film-

Muniz’s project brought attention to the predicament of the pickers, who allied to form the Association of Collectors of the Metropolitan Landfill of Jardim Gramacho, Brazil. Although the country has very few municipal recycling programs, a significant percentage of its trash is reclaimed thanks to the work of pickers. Muniz donated $50,000 from the sale of a photograph from the series to the trash collectors who posed for the works and, along with the documentary filmmakers, has donated $276,000 to the workers’ collective. In 2011 he was named a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador in recognition of his work with the catadores.

He also opened the Escola Vidigal in the Vidigal favela, near his home in Rio, which offers preschool and after-school programs in art, design, and technology for underprivileged children.

 “I’m at this point in my career where I’m trying to step away from the realm of fine arts because I think it’s a very exclusive, very restrictive place to be. What I want to be able to do is to change the lives of people with the same materials they deal with every day.”

https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/story/vik-muniz-artist-and-activist

https://www.artsy.net/artwork/vik-muniz-medusa-after-caravaggio-from-pictures-of-junk

https://recyclinginternational.com/latest-articles/editors-top-picks/vik-muniz-proves-the-true-power-of-trash/26958/

http://vikmuniz.net/gallery/garbage

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Sketchbook 1

Discussion 1

Hello, my name is Chyara and a little fun fact about me is that I'm originally from Argentina. I moved to the US when I was about a year old and grew up here ever since. I speak fluent Spanish and am still attached to a majority of the culture, including mate and tango.

Ironing Woman, 2008 by Vik Muniz pays homage to Pablo Picasso's The Ironing Woman, 1904.

The work is part of Muniz's 2008 Pictures of Garbage collection, of which were created in collaboration with the garbage pickers of Jardim Gramacho, an open air landfill outside of Rio, one of the largest in South America. 

Muniz is known to integrate uncommon mediums in his works, including Bosco syrup and PB&J. In this collection and work, Muniz uses various recycled materials acquired by the garbage pickers, including bottle caps, plastic wrap, plastic containers.

The woman posing for Ironing Woman is Isis Rodriguez Garros, a laborer Muniz met while stationed at the landfill. 

Although the piece was being auctioned at around 80K euros in 2013, research shows that is was sold at around 5-6 thousand euros in 2023. 

When I first saw the work, I was immediately drawn to her hunched shoulders, doubling over what seemed like a door, signifying what I thought was a state of frustration or confinement. After researching not only the piece, but the collection  and intention it originates from, I've grown a new appreciation for the piece from how close yet far my interpretation was. The homage to Picasso's The Ironing Woman, which also addresses the plight and suffering of the lower class, captures the state of contemporary laborers using the very materials they scavenged. The trash Muniz used not only is a use of his artistic expression, but enhances the consequence of human action on the world, and the living conditions and state of the laborers.

2. ART AND WRITING

Although not the center piece, the Argentine flag hung on the wall over my bed is the art piece for the assignment. It's made of double-woven polyester fibers and is hung up using some peel and stick tape. It is the only piece that is hanging in my room; the minimalistic nature allows it to stand out in my room, a symbolic choice to express the importance the flag and its culture signify to me. I love my flag; it is a daily reminder of the culture I grew up in despite the distance and I find a lot of pride in that.

3. WRITING A SELF-PORTRAIT

How old are you? - I am 21 years old.

What is the gender you primarily align with? - I identify as a woman and use she/her pronouns.

Where are you from? - I was born in Argentina but was raised in the United States.

What is your ethnicity? - I am a white hispanic.

What do you do for fun? - Usually I like to go to the beach with friends, and other times I like to take my dog for long walks.

Are you a member of any organized group? - I am not a member of any organized group.

Where do you work? - I work as a waitress at an Italian restaurant called San Marco Ristorante.

What makes you uniquely you? - I want to think that the situation in which I was brought up in gave me a unique perspective on the world around me.

4. SELF PORTRAIT

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Laços reforçados pela leitura e a amizade

A curiosidade, livros ou o compartihamento de histórias gerando laços encantados de amizade e solidariedade são o tema de “Os livros e os Laços de Lara”, de Mônica Ralile, graduada em Pedagogia e Letras, com especialização em Literatura Infantil e Educação e ilustrada pela arquiteta Naiara Gramacho. A obra é destinada ao público infantil e tem como personagem uma menina de olhos que parecem duas…

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Federação dos Blocos Carnavalesco do Estado do Rio de Janeiro abre o carnaval da Intendente Magalhães e da Avenida Chile no dia 10 de fevereiro de 2024

Com 58 anos de fundação e muitos carnavais, a Federação dos Blocos Carnavalescos do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FBCERJ) está pronta para abrir os desfiles carnavalescos dos blocos de enredo no sábado, dia 10 de fevereiro, a partir das 20 horas, na Estrada Intendente Magalhães, em Campinho, e na Avenida Chile, no Centro da Cidade.

A Federação dos Blocos de enredo, que é a instituição carnavalesca mais antiga em atividade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, e comandada pelo presidente Luiz Pereira Duarte, mais conhecido como Luiz Cajá, será a responsável pelos 19 blocos de enredo que animarão os foliões no Carnaval 2024, sendo dez agremiações na Intendente Magalhães, e nove na Avenida Chile.

O presidente da entidade, Luiz Cajá, em reunião com os presidentes dos blocos de enredo na sede da entidade, ressaltou a importância de cada um no desfile de 2024, para a apresentação de um grande espetáculo.

Confira a ordem de desfiles dos blocos de enredo do Grupo I, na Avenida Intendente Magalhães, em Campinho: Vai Barra? Nunca!, Bloco do Barriga, Unidos do Alto da Boa Vista, União da Ponte, Novo Horizonte, Império do Gramacho, Cometas do Bispo, Esperança de Nova Campinas, Independente de Nova América e Mocidade Unida da Mineira.

Já a ordem de desfiles dos blocos de enredo do Grupo II, na Avenida Chile, no Centro do Rio, está assim definida: Bloco do China, Zimbauê, Oba Oba do Recreio, Mocidade Unida de Manguariba, Canarinhos das Laranjeiras, Unidos dos Bandeirantes, Renascer de Vaz Lobo, Amigos do Tinguá e Raízes da Tijuca.

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Para o presidente e idealizador do Periferia do Futuro, o modelo Carlos Cruz a ação social chega para quebrar paradigmas e estereótipos dentro de uma sociedade em que sua maioria é negra Em celebração ao mês da Consciência Negra, a Prefeitura de Lauro de Freitas, região metropolitana de Salvador, Bahia, lançou na segunda-feira (6), a campanha 'Novembro Negro' e anunciou o projeto 'Periferia do Futuro'. A iniciativa, por meio da Secretaria Municipal de Políticas Afirmativas, Direitos Humanos e Promoção da Igualdade Racial (SEPADHIR), aconteceu no auditório Abdias do Nascimento, no Terminal Turístico de Portão. Durante o encontro, a secretária da SEPADHIR, Deize Marize, aproveitou para anunciar o projeto 'Periferia do Futuro', onde jovens das comunidades serão contemplados, de forma gratuita, com cursos de trança para cabelos, maquiagem e costura. "Comunico essa novidade, que é o projeto Periferia do Futuro. Então, vamos celebrar esse mês com muita esperança e coragem, engrandecendo o legado de tantos heróis e heroínas que nos representam. É uma luta por um Brasil melhor", completou. No desfile inclusivo, os modelos se apresentaram com peças da Madame Nalwango. De acordo com o presidente e idealizador do Periferia do Futuro, o modelo Carlos Cruz avalia que o projeto chega para quebrar paradigmas e estereótipos dentro de uma sociedade em que sua maioria é negra. "Venho batalhando com isso já tem muitos anos, é preciso dar oportunidade e espaço para esses jovens de periferia, até porque eu sei que a violência acomete a nossa cidade, país e não temos a arte como nosso pivô de transformação. A Periferia do Futuro encerra esse estereótipo, esse paradigma e abre esse espaço para que os jovens estejam muito mais perto da arte, para que possamos educar, acolher e transformar", destacou o modelo que também agradeceu a Fashion Guetto, projeto social parceiro do Periferia do Futuro. Como representante da prefeita Moema Gramacho, a coordenadora executiva do Gabinete e presidente da Inova, Inglid Leila, reforçou a importância das políticas públicas no município baiano. "O Novembro Negro sempre é um ato de extrema importância. De conscientização, de reflexão e, em Lauro de Freitas, que é um município que acolhe uma grande quantidade de homens e mulheres negros, representa a ressignificação de tudo que a gente possa fazer em matéria de políticas públicas. Não basta só ter. É preciso que essas políticas públicas aconteçam e atinjam toda essa população", finalizou.

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The mangroves are thriving around what used to be the largest landfill in Latin America.

In Latin America, there used to be the largest landfill in the region, surrounded by thriving mangroves. It was once known as the largest landfill in Latin America. Now, ten years after Rio de Janeiro closed the landfill and doubled its efforts to restore the severely polluted marshes around it, crabs, snails, fish, and birds are thriving once again in the mangroves.

"If we don't mention that this place used to be a landfill, people would think it's a farm. The only thing missing is cows," joked Elias Gouveia, an engineer from Comlurb, the city's waste collection agency responsible for managing the reforestation project. "This is an environmental lesson we must learn: nature is extraordinary. If we don't pollute it, it will heal itself."

Gouveia has been working with Comlurb for 38 years and witnessed the cautious first steps taken to restore the Gramacho landfill in the late 1990s.

The former landfill was located next to Guanabara Bay and covered an area of 148 square miles (383 square kilometers). From 1968 to 1996, approximately 80 million tons of garbage were dumped in the area, polluting the bay and surrounding rivers with trash and runoff.

In 1996, the city began implementing measures to limit the pollution levels from the landfill, starting with the treatment of some leachate, the toxic byproduct of decomposing garbage. However, the garbage continued to pile up until 2012 when the city finally closed it down.

"When I first arrived there, the mangroves were almost completely destroyed due to the long-term discharge of leachate and garbage brought in from Guanabara Bay," recalled Mario Moscatelli, a biologist hired by the city in 1997 to help officials with the ambitious endeavor.

The bay used to be a thriving location for artisanal fishing and popular palm tree beaches. However, it later became a dumping ground for waste from shipyards and two commercial ports. During low tide, household waste, including old washing machines and soaked sofas, floated on enormous islands of sewage and sediment. The landfill, once a towering heap of garbage attracting hundreds of scavengers, is now gradually covered with clay. Comlurb employees started clearing the garbage, building a rainwater drainage system, and replanting the mangroves, an ecosystem that has proven to be particularly resilient and successful in similar restoration projects.

Gouveia explained that they are particularly interested in the mangroves due to their ability to capture and store large amounts of carbon dioxide, a major contributor to global warming. Experts say that mangroves bury more carbon in sediment than even tropical rainforests, making them crucial tools in combating climate change.

To protect the recovering mangroves from the impact of nearby community waste (sometimes thrown into the rivers by local residents), the city constructed clay fences in the marshland. To this day, Comlurb employees continue to maintain and reinforce these fences, but they are often damaged by intruders searching for crabs.

Even though the landfill is now covered, there are still leachate leaks, and Comlurb is collecting and treating the leachate at one of its wastewater stations. Comlurb and its private partner, Statled Brasil, have successfully recovered around 60 hectares of land, six times the area they started with in the late 1990s.

"We have turned the situation around," said Gouveia. "In the past, the landfill polluted the bay and rivers. Now, it is the bay and rivers that are polluted, and we are working to make them clean again."

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Uma análise sobre o trabalho do artista plástico Vik Muniz no Jardim Gramacho, localizado na cidade de Duque de Caxias (RJ), que é um dos maiores aterros sanitários do mundo.

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AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

ByThe Associated Press December 16, 2022, 12:01 AM A girl pushes on a bike her brand new Tigger plush toy that she received at a foods and toys donation holiday event organized by the non-governmental organization SOMOS, that work to combat hunger, at the Jardim Gramacho favela, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Dec, 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado) The Associated Press Dec. 9-15, 2022 This…

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Poverty plagues those under 18 years of age in Latin America

Poverty plagues those under 18 years of age in Latin America

The community of Jardim Gramacho, where the largest landfill in Latin America, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), was located.ariel will rise Those under 18 years of age are the group most exposed to misery in Latin America. Almost 45% of children and adolescents live in poverty, 13 points more than the average for the region’s population, according to the report. Social Panorama of Latin America and the…

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23 Documentaries You Can Watch About Saving The Planet

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23 Documentaries You Can Watch About Saving The Planet

Whether it’s meat, fashion, waste, or any other aspect of taking care of the world around us, we all have room for improvement.

1.

The Plastic Age (2015)

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i-D

This short documentary from i-D begins with a man showing off fossils and relics of ancient civilizations that he has collected. He then pulls out a box of plastic he collected off a beach in Hawaii, and points out that just like there was the Iron Age and the Bronze Age, modern humanity’s legacy (our “fossils”) will be plastic. 

2.

Revolution (2012)

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Foundation Features

Documentarian Rob Stewart examines how younger generations are leading the charge in sustainability and tackling the climate crisis. Other films are good at outlining specific issues, but Revolution is a great documentary to watch if you also want to see solutions in action.

3.

The Great Invisible (2014)

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Gigantic Pictures

Touching on the oil rig explosion of 2010, I saw one review of this documentary suggest that people instead watch the 2016 film Deepwater Horizon. The reviewer, I think, missed the point of The Great Invisible, which is not to focus on the explosion itself, but everything surrounding it. What about the oil industry led to the disaster? How were the Gulf Coast residents affected for years afterwards? 

The Great Invisible may not be as action-packed as Mark Wahlberg’s Deepwater Horizon, but it’ll teach you much more about real-world systemic issues that are destroying both human and marine life. 

4.

A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for A Living Planet (2012)

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Zoetrope Aubry Productions

Interested in the history of the environmental movement? This series examines multiple aspects of climate conservation, from animal activists to water conservationists and many more groups that have been fighting for change for decades.

5.

Waste Land (2010)

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Midas Filmes

Artist Vik Muniz travels to Jardim Gramacho, which was at one point one of the largest landfills in the world. Highlighting the catadores (“pickers”) who separate recyclables from the rest of the trash, Muniz creates portraits of the workers as he learns about their lives. After selling the artwork, the proceeds are given back to the catadores.

Jardim Gramacho is located in Rio de Janeiro, and as the filmmakers point out, the famous Christ the Redeemer statue has his back to the landfill. The site received 7,000 tons of garbage every day at its peak, and it had to close just two years after this documentary came out due to toxic waste leaking into the surrounding marshland.

6.

Watermark (2012)

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Mongrel Media

Featuring stunning cinematography from natural and manmade water sources across the world, Watermark examines our relationship with water and how we can do better.

7.

Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret (2014)

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Appian Way

Cowspiracy focuses on the negative impacts the animal industry has on the environment. While the film has received some slight criticism for claiming that the animal industry is the “biggest” contributor to global warming (most scientists agree it is the burning of fossil fuels), Cowspiracy still does an excellent job of shining a light on how unsustainable many of the animal industry’s practices are.

8.

The True Cost (2015)

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Life Is My Movie Entertainment

Exploited labor, unsafe—sometimes even fatal—working conditions, and pollution are all consequences of “fast fashion.” The True Cost takes a look at how exactly that shirt at our local department stores can cost so little.

For solutions to issues in the fashion industry, take a look at ReDress the Future below.

9.

ReDress The Future (2021)

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Deadbeat Films

The True Cost points out some key ways the fashion industry has gone wrong, and Mikaela Loach’s ReDress the Future examines how it can get back on track.  Loach calls out the designers and innovators who are putting in the effort to improve the fashion industry by way of recycled materials, ethical labor, and more. 

Documentaries like this series are key, because they remind us that sustainability doesn’t have to feel like you’re giving up things you love. Taking care of the planet and ensuring workers aren’t exploited may take more work, but ReDress the Future reminds us that it’s worth it.

10.

Before the Flood (2016)

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National Geographic Documentary Films

Mother Nature may be old, but Leonardo DiCaprio still loves it. After finally winning his Oscar for The Revenant, he used the end of his speech to talk about global warming. And the following year, Before the Flood was released. The film smartly and openly uses DiCaprio’s fame (amplified by his Oscar win just months earlier) to draw focus to global warming, and how we can protect endangered species and indigenous people. 

11.

The 11th Hour (2007)

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Warner Independent Pictures

Also starring Leonardo DiCaprio, The 11th Hour came out hot on the heels of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. Similar to Before the Flood, this documentary talks to over 50 politicians, scientists, and environmental activists about how the future of our planet is in danger.

12.

An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

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Paramount Classics

Though the trailer for this 2006 movie can feel like an overly dramatic teaser for a disaster blockbuster, keep in mind that it came out at a time when far fewer people were in agreement that climate change was a severe issue than they are today. Though the movie is more concerned with convincing people that global warming is real than honing in on specific solutions (when compared to something like Gasland or Cowspiracy) this documentary is still crucial in raising awareness for environmental action.

13.

Gasland (2010)

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HBO

As documentarian Josh Fox travels across several states in the US, he talks to residents, politicians, scientists, and gas industry executives about fracking.

14.

Mission Blue (2014)

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Netflix

Overfishing, plastics, and melting ice caps are having a devastating impact on our oceans. Marine biologist Dr. Sylvia Earle searches for solutions in this Emmy-winning documentary.

15.

The Green Planet (2022)

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BBC

This series is narrated by David Attenborough and examines different types of plants, as well as how we interact with them. The series stresses the need for humankind to change its relationship with plants so that we can “make this an even greener planet,” in Attenborough’s words.

16.

The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet (2021)

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BBC

Prince William and Davide Attenborough collaborated on the foundation of the Earthshot Prize. The prize, which is one million pounds in grant money, is awarded to one environmentalist each year for their efforts in sustainability. The series follows the scientists competing for the prize, and how their technologies aim to save the planet.

“The Earthshot Prize is really about harnessing that optimism and that urgency to find solutions to some of the world’s greatest environmental problems.” —Prince William

17.

I Am Greta (2020)

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Hulu

I Am Greta details Greta Thunberg’s rise to fame and her passion for environmental action, but it also explores how Thunberg is often toted as a “mascot” for global warming. She is open about how she occasionally feels exploited, and the movie is a good reminder that, while younger generations are often the most sustainable, we shouldn’t leave saving the planet just up to our children.

18.

The Biggest Little Farm (2018)

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Neon

John and Molly Chester leave the city of Los Angeles to purchase an abandoned farm just an hour away. They spend the next seven years trying to restore the land into a sustainable farm and a habitat for local wildlife. If you’re interested in seeing solutions, The Biggest Little Farm is a good place to start.

19.

Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things (2016)

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Netflix

If you’ve ever wished that you could get rid of everything excessive and get down to only the things you absolutely need, Minimalism is a great place to start. Society can often encourage overconsumption, but a focus on just the important stuff reduces our carbon footprint, pollution, and that feeling that we never have enough.

20.

Our Planet (2019)

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Another series narrated by David Attenborough, Our Planet puts a spin on the usual style of nature docs. As more and more natural habitats are harmed by human activity, traditional nature documentaries can give a false feeling that the Mother Nature is doing just fine. Our Planet explores stunning ecosystems and beautiful animals, but always reminds the viewer how climate change is impacting those species. It’s a brilliant way to celebrate nature without forgetting that it’s in danger.

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Chasing Ice (2012)

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National Geographic photographer James Balog uses the powerfully simple tool of time lapse photography to show changes in the world’s glaciers.

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Chasing Coral (2017)

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In this documentary, Chasing Ice director Jeff Orlowski moves from James Balog’s documentation of ice to the divers and scientists who are studying coral reefs and their disappearance.

Which other documentaries have motivated you to make a change? Let me know in the comments!

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Trash it pictures

Muniz, said Peter Boswell, a curator at the Miami Art Museum who organized “Vik Muniz: Reflex,” a 2006 retrospective there. The work’s accessibility often leads art cognoscenti to dismiss Mr. “He was always interested in visual theory and the vernacular,” said Brent Sikkema, his dealer. Muniz’s career as a photographer was born. The Museum of Modern Art chose them for its 1997 “New Photography” roundup, and Mr. After realizing the difference was a lifetime spent working with sugar, he used the glittering grains to draw and form the children’s portraits on black paper, and photographed the results. Back in New York, he tried to figure out what made the children look so luminous while their parents seemed so broken down. Kitts he discovered the perfect blend of all three mediums when he befriended some families at a sugar plantation and took Polaroids of them. When he happened across Jeff Koons’s enigmatic vacuum cleaner and basketball sculptures at International With Monument, he said: “I realized that I could be an artist too. Muniz took the money and decided to try his luck in America.īy 1983 he was in New York, working as a framer and living in the East Village while its gallery scene was booming. His assailant, to ensure that he didn’t press charges, offered him cash. That career ended abruptly when he was shot in the leg on his way to his first black-tie gala. At 18, buoyed by an intense fascination with perception and optics, he talked himself into a job with a billboard company and became something of an advertising wunderkind. Although he grew up in a poor family in São Paulo, his habit of expressing himself with tiny hieroglyphic drawings won him a scholarship to an art school. Yet his own stars seem to have been remarkably well aligned. “They just weren’t born very lucky,” he says in the film. Muniz has also acknowledged that with a twist of fortune he might have become a catador himself. And, as Magna says, “It’s better than turning tricks at Copacabana.” Though their work may be grim and dangerous, many of them seem to have a crystal clear idea of its environmental worth. They include Tião Santos, president of the workers’ cooperative Association of Collectors of the Metropolitan Landfill of Jardim Gramacho the scholarly Zumbi, who has educated himself by reading discarded books Suellem, a teenage mother who has worked at Gramacho and lived in its shantytown since her childhood and Magna, who became a catador when she and her husband fell on hard times. The catadores in the film soon reveal themselves to be as personality-packed as Mr. “Now I’ve reached the point where I want to give back.” Muniz is then seen amid Gramacho’s majestic mountains of trash meeting the catadores with Fabio Ghivelder. He informs his wife at the time, the artist Janaina Tschäpe, that he intends to spend two years at Gramacho, working with the catadores. What I want to be able to do is to change the lives of people with the same materials they deal with every day.” “I’m at this point in my career where I’m trying to step away from the realm of fine arts,” he says to the camera, “because I think it’s a very exclusive, very restrictive place to be. Muniz once dribbled across vellum to recreate Hans Namuth’s photograph of Jackson Pollock making a drip painting peanut butter and jelly, from which he molded a Warholesque “Double Mona Lisa” or plastic toy soldiers, which he used to recast a Civil War photograph of a boyish-looking private. But examine the picture up close, and it turns out to be made from surprising mediums, like Bosco syrup, which Mr. At first each seems to present a familiar image or artwork. They learn to communicate with double meanings.”Ĭertainly his photographs are filled with the visual equivalent of double entendres. So Brazilians become very flexible in the use of metaphors. “Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. “I’m a product of a military dictatorship,” he said recently at his New York gallery, Sikkema Jenkins & Company. THE photographer Vik Muniz often says that while he considers himself an American artist, his use of imagery owes everything to Brazil, where he was born and raised.

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Este domingo (19) entrou para a história do Quilombo Quingoma, em Lauro de Freitas. A partir deste dia, o lugar passa a ser reconhecido como o primeiro Território Iorubá do Brasil. O título, que fortalece a manutenção da história e da cultura do local, foi conferido pelo rei da Nigéria, Onni Ilê Ifé, durante cerimônia que contou com a presença dos moradores, políticos e representantes das religiões de matriz africana.   As palavras do rei Onni Ilê Ifé encheram o coração de homens e mulheres de amor, fé e esperança. Percorrendo o vasto terreno, ele plantou na entrada do Quilombo uma árvore para lembrar as futuras gerações deste dia. “Vocês são parte do meu sangue e eu tenho em meu coração felicidade em estar com vocês. Esse momento é um milagre dos nossos ancestrais, aqui neste lugar onde nosso povo se escondeu e resistiu até o dia de hoje”, declarou.   Acompanhada de vereadores, secretários municipais e da secretária estadual da Igualdade Racial, Ângela Guimarães, a prefeita Moema Gramacho reafirmou o compromisso em continuar lutando por mais conquistas para a população remanescente quilombola. “Hoje nós festejamos esta vitória e continuaremos buscando por mais justiça e desenvolvimento social para a população negra”, frisou a prefeita ao lado de Ângela, que definiu a visita do rei como um marco para a Bahia. “Esse é um estado de histórica resistência negra e temos infinitas semelhanças com a África. Recebemos esse título que reconhece este Quilombo com regozijo”, falou.   Ao som da orquestra Tambora Ayo Salvador, da mestra Mônica Millet e orquestra Nzinga de capoeira Angola, a secretária de Políticas Afirmativas, Direitos Humanos e Promoção da Igualdade Racial de Lauro de Freitas (SEPADHIR), Deize Marize, frisou a importância do Quilombo para a nossa cultura.” São territórios como este que expressam a luta coletiva da população negra ao longo da história e que resistem mesmo diante dos ataques do racismo estrutural. O povo quilombola tem ligação com sua ancestralidade, acreditam na vida que resiste neste local e respeitam a natureza da qual vivem, se sustentam e alimentam suas famílias a partir do que a terra lhes oferece”, destaca.

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𝓦𝓱𝓮𝓷 𝓦𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝓦𝓮 𝓗𝓲𝓽 𝓟𝓮𝓪𝓴 𝓖𝓪𝓻𝓫𝓪𝓰𝓮?

We have a garbage problem. Not just here in Indonesia, where the average person throws away their body weight every month–but increasingly around the world as well. Growing prosperity and urbanization are leading to a big surge in the waste mountain. And, a new analysis suggests the problem is likely to keep growing this century, unless there’s serious change.

Global waste has bulged 10-fold in the last century. And by 2025, it’s set to double from where it is today. The chief reason: newly rich cities of the developing world. Dumps like Laogang in Shanghai and Jardim Gramacho in Rio de Janeiro are already overflowing. China’s solid waste is set to grow from about 573,000 tons a day in 2005 to 1.5 million tons in 2025.

As a country becomes richer, the composition of its waste changes. With more money comes more packaging, imports, electronic waste, and broken toys and appliances. In turn, that leads to environmental problems, like toxic leakages from landfills, and plastic clogging oceans and rivers.

The analysis is based on population projections and material consumption rates. East Asia is now the fastest growing waste region, with South Asia set to take over after 2025 and sub-Saharan Africa after 2050. Waste rates in richer countries, like the U.S., are also still rising. But the authors expect them to stop growing by mid-century.

Urbanization is key. People in cities generate twice as much waste as rural residents, even if they have the same income. Rural communities normally use less packaged products and throw away less food. When the authors account for income differences, urban-dwellers produce four times as much waste as country folk.

Rubbish is being generated faster than other environmental pollutants, including greenhouse gases.

Plastic clogs the world's oceans and rivers, causing flooding in developing-world cities. Solid-waste management is one of the greatest costs to municipal budgets. And waste reduction efforts in some countries are more than offset by population growth and urbanization in other countries.

'Business-as-usual' projections, based on population growth and gross domestic product (GDP), will generate more than six million tonnes of solid waste a day by 2025.

That's enough to fill a line of garbage trucks 5,000 kilometres long every day.

This means greater numbers of people having to live in environments that are degraded due to the effects of trash.

Waste doesn't get on the map in terms of threats to our planetary system in the way greenhouse gases and ozone do.

The problem isn't just the waste itself, but also the energy and resources required to make the products we throw out.

Reports of global warming have dominated the headlines in the past few years, leaving little room for other environmental concerns, one of which is the mounting problem of solid waste, aka trash or rubbish—it's the stuff we toss after opening packages or consume most any food. It's plastic water bottles and food scraps, old cell phones or junk mail. Some of it is recycled of course, but a lot of it still ends up in landfills. Scientists have found that people that live in more affluent countries toss more stuff in the trash than do people in poor places. They also found that there is a peak amount for trash tossed in affluent places—at some point, people begin spending some of their money on experiences, rather than just stuff. That's enough information, they say, to project how much total trash will be tossed at various points in the future, and when a global peak will be reached. It's all based on population growth, the number of people living in developing countries and the amount of time economists and others project will pass before everyone is living in a developed country.

What's perhaps most interesting that it's not the trash itself that is the real concern (recycling, burial, etc. should be able to handle all that trash) but what it represents in terms of other impacts on the planet. As people gain wealth, they pollute more in general—if all the poor people today become affluent to the point of reaching peak trash production, it means they will all be responsible for producing as much CO2 for example, as those that are affluent today, or for the amount of nitrogen that flows to the sea to produce the food they eat.

The projected numbers are not set in stone, if we so desire we can change the way we live and in so doing reduce the amount of trash we produce. People in Japan for example produce much less trash per person than most anywhere else—they have little choice, governments there regulate how people dispose of trash because there is so little room for landfills.