Published May 14, 2025, in The Guardian, this excellent article offers a close look at our Favela Climate Memory project, now launched in its full and final exhibition form. Writer Julia Carneiro paid a visit to our launch on May 3, where over 300 favela residents, organizers, authorities, NGOs, and students experienced the groundbreaking event, product of three years’ research by favela museum members of the Sustainable Favela Network. The article makes the relevance and urgency of ...| Catalytic Communities | CatComm
GREEN CITIES: RIO DE JANEIRO Informal settlements and the search for climate change solutions Please join CSU as we welcome our guest speaker Dr. Theresa Williamson, Ph.D., and moderator Lance Jay Brown, FAIA on Wednesday, August 7, 2024 from 12 PM – 1 PM ET for our next Green Cities Event of 2024! Talk abstract: Residents across Rio de Janeiro’s favela communities have been adapting to climate change and coming up with development solutions in the absence of public investment for a centu...| Catalytic Communities | CatComm
WEBINAR: Cities for Everyone with Gil Sustainable Favelas: The Key to Climate Justice and Thriving Cities? Guest: Theresa Williamson, PhD Date: Tuesday, August 6, 2024 Time: 11-Noon EST / 5pm CET On Zoom Register Free: bit.ly/Cities4EveryoneFavelaSignUp Description: Residents across Rio de Janeiro’s favela communities have been adapting to climate change and coming up with development solutions in the absence of public investment for a century. Today, hundreds of grassroots organizers have ...| Catalytic Communities | CatComm
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Design Matters Lecture at the University of Calgary’s School of Planning, Architecture and Landscape Sustainable Favelas: The Key to Climate Justice and Thriving Cities Residents across Rio de Janeiro’s favela communities have been adapting to climate change and coming up with development solutions in the absence of public investment for a century. Come hear how hundreds of grassroots organizers have come together as the Sustainable Favela Network, to develop, recognize, strengthen, conso...| Catalytic Communities | CatComm
The Favela Community Land Trust Project marked its fifth anniversary in 2023, having grown as a model for ensuring stability and security of tenure in self-managed communities. The milestone was celebrated during a seminar featuring national and international invited guests at the Rio de Janeiro Public Defenders Office headquarters, in the FESUDEPERJ Auditorium, on October 28. Community Land Trusts (CLTs) serve as a model for land rights and management through community control, originating w...| Catalytic Communities | CatComm
Catalytic Communities is a Rio de Janeiro-based nonprofit organization that has supported thousands of grassroots favela organizers over 23 years. This year, our Giving Tuesday fundraising goal is $10,000, whether on Facebook, our own donation platform or by check. This campaign will last through Human Rights Day, December 10. Please support and help spread the word! Your US-based donation is tax-deductible. With your help, in 2024 we will expand our work alongside grassroots favel...| Catalytic Communities | CatComm
Favela-CLT III National Seminar and 5th Anniversary Celebration There is still time to register for the 5th anniversary of the Favela-CLT Project, which will feature an international exchange with activists living CLTs practice, in three countries! Come and learn more about the Favela-CLT and its applications to ensure affordable housing and community development in different contexts. The event will comprise the Favela-CLT Project’s III National Seminar. ➡️ Sign up here to join us in p...| Catalytic Communities | CatComm
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FAVELA ON OUTSKIRTS OF RIO DE JANEIRO GETS SOLAR! GRASSROOTS WOMEN’S GROUP INVITES PRESS AND ALLIES TO LAUNCH OF PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM IN DUQUE DE CAXIAS Press conference and launch event, on September 17, will bring together residents and allies responsible for the project. Click here to register. Access images here. Access video here. Media outlets: please republish content from this release freely, citing the source: Catalytic Communities | Sustaina...| Catalytic Communities | CatComm
1st National Sustainable Favela Network Exchange Expands Knowledge and Weaves Sustainability Between Favelas, Quilombos, and Indigenous Communities. Clique aqui para Português On June 6, 2023, 155 community organizers and allies from 12 Brazilian states—Bahia, Ceará, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Pará, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Rondônia, Santa Catarina, and São Paulo—gathered online to participate in the First National Sustainable Favela ...| Catalytic Communities | CatComm