Anibar looks at us with peaceful but wide awake eyes. He is about forty years old and the founder of UrbaGrow, a small business of organic urban agriculture. We went to meet him in his office, a regular building in an urban area in the...
Walking the noisy, congested but colorful streets of Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta, it is like taking a trip back in time. Hold your breath before immersing yourself into the chaotic streets of the city where you have to swim among thousands of people crowding...
(Thanks to Raffaella Rossi for the translation) Silence. A golden Buddha is shining right in front of me, almost lost in the darkness of the temple. I sit comfortable to better admire it, completely covered in darkness. The air is stale and filled with incense perfume....
Rapa Nui, better known as Easter Island [1] is usually described as a dot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, but this time we want to describe it changing perspective. We can start writing something like this: Rapa Nui is the island in the...
Sara Larrain, director of the NGO Chile Sustentable (Sustainable Chile) told us the story of the organization. Established in the late 90's from the disappointment of part the society about the policies implemented in the post-dictatorship years, Chile Sustantable proposed a set of environmental, social...
Tomas Gonzales, 30 years old, long hair and honest but sad blue eyes, shyly admits: "I'm afraid that my river might be dying: the river Maipo is now reduced to a trickle throughout the year instead of being a mighty and ever-changing river. I'm afraid...
"Mujica is the best president we could have," says Pablo, "everyone knows his beautiful speech at Rio+20 Summitin 2012 but, then when it comes to making decisions at home, things are different.” In Uruguay, between 2000 and 2011, with supposedly left wing parties in charge,...
This is the story of a war, a war between people and political-economic interests, a war between those who see water as a common good and those who see it as a private and tradable good. This is the story of the water war in...
The night we arrived in Quito on our taxi driver tells us that he has to drop us 200 meters from our hostel because the road is blocked by a demonstration against the latest laws proposed by the government taking inheritance and speculative gains. Driving...
