Day 17 – Curitiba Environment, Ecology, Education

Day 17 – Curitiba Environment, Ecology, Education

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Ecohostel Check – in @ Mercury Hotel (or similar)
Official IPPUC Curitiba tour, master plan & zoning

9:30 am – 12:00 pm
Lecture about Environment
Ecology and Education
From the Municipal Secretary of Environment (SMMA) at Unilivre

1:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Visit to the recycling station of Campo Margo
Visit to the recycling program Cambio Verde

Notes from lecture from SMMA

OSCIP – A civil society Organization of Public Interest, Working for Urban Plan

IHP – International Honors Program , works with Urban spaces
Feb. 2008, 33 participants , Students from U.S. came here to learn about the city planning

Mei Ji Galaun –Japanese Program, 9 participants

International training centers for local authorities – CIFAL
Not only for here, but for other Portuguese speaking countries other governments exchange ideas here.

ECOS Program
Social – Environment school spaces; -ECOS
These are 29 units in the program during the after-school they learn about environmental education. 2,500 children came to one of these events. College students come here to learn about the environment. There are free courses available for the local community.
Making Art projects out of coffee filters and etc.

Communidade Escola
Re-using Recyclable materials
Public schools of curitiba in Jan. 2008
In the weekend they offer weekend courses for students to learn about the environment.
www.unilivre.org.br

Gil * gal

Location
The special relationship between the people of Isreal and God.

Alliance
Company focused on growth and development of craft Art.

They bring design, nice packaging design. They also help people with social and environmental matters.
Goods for the domestic and International Market.
They are also involved in the social concern of the craftsmen’s well being.
Help these people bring alternative sources of income for the family.
Legal and financial advisors.
Marketing and Consulting
Crochet is our main product. Bags, clothes, oven pads, patchwork and jewelry, etc.
Gilgal.products@gmail.com

Chicago and Curitiba are similar in population and size
Throughout this trip we learned about the way they use the land, recycling, and buses in Curitiba. Possibly looking at alternative solutions to deal with the transit issue in Chicago.

Glecia Maria Gayer Balersiefer – Secretaria Municipal do Meio Ambiente
Environmental secretary of the municipality
And works with the International groups that want to learn from Brazil. She’s been working for the Municipality since 1989.

History of Curitiba
Curitiba was founded March 29, 1693. It has 315 years of existence
20% is bio diverse
There are 26 cities in the region we are in the state of Paraná where there are many municipalities.
Brazil 180,000,000 population
5,000 municipalities in Brazil
The main goal in Curitiba is to try to make it bio diverse because in the 1970s we had a lot of destruction.

We now have 51,000 of green land. They are counting public and private areas.
300,000 of public spaces, trees on public streets
78 milhoes de area natives (private e publicas)

The next plan is to remove all exotic trees in the city and replace them with native ones. Working on this model since 1989.

Educacau Ambientel - Environmental Education
1. Corheciento – Knowledge
2. Sensibilizacao – Perception
3. Practica – Practice
Linha Verde (The Green Line) = The greatest avenue in Curitiba
Its going to connect 18 neighborhoods
Intervention of environmental education and changing species of exotic flowers and introduce local native plants and flowers.

Municipal working with growing identity with community through environmental education.

Museum do Capão da Imbuia – You will see taxidermy animals in this.

1997 there was a legislation for environmental education and all have to abide to this legislation.
Before 1989 we didn’t have an appropriate disposable plant.
They set up a recycling program

In the 18 years we have filled up our disposal plant. The original life time was due to expire in 11 years but because of the recycling program it was extended to 18.
There are other programs for dangerous materials like batteries and chemicals.

“Se – Pa – Re” - The recycling program.
A big campaign which included lots of advertising.

Because of the full waste plant they have a new objective.
3 days of selective collection saves 1 day in the life of the plant.

Out of the garbage we collect 20% is recycled but the goal is to increase it to 38%.
1998 they have implemented the program for shopping centers to recycle.

Workers in program
1999
56% of the workers have immigrated from all around the state and not from Curitiba.

Many of those people are moving into the city to become garbage collectors who were once rural farmers. Because of the problems with the agricultural industry they have sold there farms and moved to the city to find work.
They collect 450 tons of garbage a day.

Câmbio Verde Program
Created in 1991
It was a part of selected collection (She mentioned something about San Francisco in and the United States as green but it wasn’t translated in English, that was the little Portuguese I started to pick up)

The farmers were throwing their excess harvest of cabbage in the river and other waste. So the government started a program that gave them ways to collect that waste and preserve the river.
There is a garbage exchange program for kids. In the beginning of the season they exchange for toys, candy, school supplies etc. But it stopped because of political fights.

There are 88 points of exchange. (We went to one of those points and witnessed the exchange for I kilo of food to families.)

“Comprado Lixo”
To buy garbage. You can’t sell it you have to be listed in the exchange.