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Orchard at School

Teresópolis, Brazil -- Using plastic soda bottles as pots, José Cavalcante Barbosa takes environmental education to public schools in his town. Several condiment herbs can be planted in the same bottle. Thanks to Barbosa's volunteer efforts, 100 children each year learn how to grow a garden, producing herbs for sale ......

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Dinamicoop IT/Graphic Arts Coop

Morro dos Macacos, Rio de Janeiro -- Dinamicoop is a community-based Information Technology Cooperative in Morro dos Macacos, one of Rio's favelas (squatter settlements). The coop provides diverse services, ranging from a community technology center with 40 computers, to website creation and computer re...

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The Community Week

s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands -- A Dutch vocational institute donates one week of the entire academic community's time to help society during an annual Community Week. For one week during the course of four years the students expose their talents to one another and to the community via dozens of development proje...

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Persistence, Death Threats, and Trees, by Jamie Worms

We arrived just in time to watch the news on TV. I was secretly thrilled to have been able to watch it there, because there is no TV in my apartment. Rio de Janeiro will ......

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