Artists for Conservation: Kitty Harvill
Education and increasing awareness is one of the basic aims of the Albatross and Petrel Agreement. It seeks to make local communities and the public in general more aware of the status of albatrosses and petrels and the threats facing them. One way this aim can be achieved is by educating the next generation, who will soon be able to learn about More...
Environmental Awareness Prize of R$500,000
The SWU (Starts with You) Movement began in June 2010 and is an initiative that encourages young people to change their attitudes by dealing with issues of sustainability through individual action. It is the brainchild More...
ISC Partners with Nature Conservancy
By Paul Combs On April 29, International School of Curitiba (ISC) students in grades 1 to 8 celebrated Brazilian Arbor Day by inaugurating the new ISC greenhouse which was recently purchased by the Parent Teacher More...
Natural Disasters: Is Brazil Prepared?
By Raul Hiromu Sumiya I’ve been terrified these days because of the natural disasters occurring all over the world. Near Curitiba, a few small towns on the coastline have been devastated by the torrential More...
New Trees Along Teffé Street
Teffé Street will receive more trees in the Bom Retiro neighborhood. The implementation of the Curitiba Beltway, which will cross Teffé, includes the planting of the 142 new native trees along an 800-meter swath More...
Ecological Curitiba
By Sílvia Oliveira Photo by Raul Mattar The “ecological” Curitiba, that place you’ve heard so often called the best place to live in Brazil (maybe the world), underwent a severe face-lift. Everything changed More...
Barigui Park Adds 210,000 Square Metres
The Barigui Linear Park, one of the Viva Barigui programme’s goals, is to go through another stage of consolidation. The City Council has incorporated a further 210,000 square-metre area in two sections, thus More...
NGO Commemorates Its 30 Years In the Presence of Nobel Prize Winner
(Photo) Founder Marianne Spiller On the weekend of November 20 and 21, the Life for All Foundation, a nongovernmental organisation (NGO) from the metropolitan region of Curitiba, gathered together some of the biggest More...
Convention on Biological Diversity
At the opening of the Cities Meeting of the 10th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP-10), the executive secretary of the Convention, Ahmed Djoghlaf, praised Curitiba and cited More...
2010 Brazilian Design Biennial
The 2010 Brazilian Design Biennial, organised by the Paraná Design Centre and the Federation of Industries of Paraná (FIEP) through the International Centre for Innovation (C2i), has begun. This is the first time More...