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Tags: Cidadania · Democracia · Democracia Participativa · Transparência
Two years later, I was asked: what is sustainability all about?
August 2nd, 2011
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Tags: Civilization · Net Impact
The Mistakes of Muhammad Yunus
May 12th, 2011
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Tags: Amartya Sen · Empreendedorismo · Muhammad Yunus · Negócios Sociais · Política
Open Source will shift the pace of social innovation
May 4th, 2011
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Tags: Inovação · inovação social · open source · paradigma
Critical Mass in Porto Alegre
September 25th, 2010
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Following the worldwide Critical Mass movement, dozens of cyclists meet in Porto Alegre (check the blog) every last Friday of the month to protest for a bike-friendly city and promote this healthy, sustainable and democratic vehicule.
Tags: Bicycle · Transport · Porto Alegre
Changing my School
February 21st, 2010
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I would like to present some of my initiatives to promote sustainability and social change at the Management School of UFRGS, my university in Brazil. I would appreciate very much if these actions were applied by other students who believe these issues are really important.
Tags: Brazil · Education · Net Impact · University
Back to Porto Alegre
September 16th, 2009
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I arrived in Brazil a few days ago, so I would like to describe some of the impressions I have of the city of Porto Alegre, where I returned to live after 13 months in Europe.
Tags: Brazil · Civilization · Consumerism · Culture · Porto Alegre · Rio Grande do Sul
Death and rebirth of the cool
August 26th, 2009
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When, in 1950, Miles Davis announced the Birth of the Cool, nobody really believed him. Air-conditioning was still big and noisy.
Tags: Cars · Consumerism · Culture · Irony · Climate Change · Technology
Climate change and information
August 16th, 2009
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Is climate change caused by human action? If so, to what extent are we responsible? Unlike many supposed promoters of sustainability, I believe these questions are relevant to the interpretation of the system we live in and to the definition of adaptive and corrective plans.
Tags: Science · Civilization · Ethics · Information · IPCC · Climate Change
The car and the tax
August 9th, 2009
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A comment to the last post challenged me with a question. Could a sustainable tax shift work in Brazil? The author referred to an example cited in Lester Brown’s Plan B: a cut in labor taxes followed by an increase in energy-related tariffs. Genius, said the commentator.
I respond stating that sustainable taxation is a powerful instrument for the promotion of sustainability which can be implemented by any country, according to its particularities. I would like to extend this debate and expose some actions on the field of tax policies, especially regarding automobiles.
Tags: Banks · Brazil · Cars · Europe · Government · Lester Brown · Rio Grande do Sul
