It’s hard to think of a more suitable setting for a eco-movie festival than the Amazon region in the north of Brazil. Cinemazônia arrives at its fifth edition in November this year to discuss global warming and is currently accepting...
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It has become part of our vocabulary, but the term ‘sustainable development’ wasn’t coined that long ago. It was first used by Gro Harlem Brutland, a Norwegian doctor, politician and diplomat, in the seminal article Our Common...
Inspired by Eco-Chick’s summer reads list, I thought I’d suggest a few nature-inspired films for those on summer vacation and lots of time to kill. So here we go: 1 – Akira Kurosawa’s Derzu Uzala (1975) – One of the...
The companies Toyota Tsusho, Odebrechet and Queiroz Galvão signed last Friday a deal whereby they become part of a joint venture being pursued by state-run Brazilian petrol agency, Petrobras, and the Japanese Itochu Corporation. The initiative...
From Beligium is a project that caught my attention recently. Passive House denotes a specific construction standard for residential buildings with good comfort conditions during winter and summer, without traditional heating systems and without...
