Brazil's Towns for Dogs

Hundreds of tightly packed zinc-roofed shacks dot a hillside slum, one of thousands of “favelas” that are home to samba stars, drug lords and millions of poor Brazilians. But this slum in the southern city of Caxias do Sul is a home for dogs, not humans.

Without enough money to build a proper shelter for 1,600 abandoned pooches, the humane organization So Ama, or “Just Love,” keeps the animals chained to an array of about 1,000 small dog houses that look like the Brazilian slums.

Favelas, which are a common sight throughout Brazil’s major cities, are home to millions of urban poor and rural migrants who leave the countryside seeking jobs…

Many of the slums are plagued by violence linked to drug trafficking.

Like in human shantytowns, the main challenge facing the dog favela is making ends meet. Oselame says costs, including veterinarian’s fees and 13 tonnes of pet food a month, are far greater than the donations and the roughly $14,000 she receives monthly from the municipal government.

By Andressa Bergamo

How Green is your abodo?

MYABODO is an interactive toy that lets you shape a house to suit you.Change your stuff and see how it shapes the climate.

When you're done, join an  abodo neighbourhood, share your abodo with other people and get started with changing the world for real.

Brazil's World Cup football team to sport 'green' and yellow stri

"Brazil, Portugal and the Netherlands among teams to wear Nike's shirts made from recycled plastic bottles"

"When Kaka and Ronaldinho stride out onto the pitch for the World Cup in South Africa this summer, few of their millions of fans are likely to notice that their yellow jerseys are made from old plastic bottles."

The move was welcomed by the green fashion industry. A spokesperson for the Ethical Fashion Forum, an industry body that promotes sustainability, said the recycled shirts were "definitely a step in the right direction." She added that Nike had taken huge steps in recent years to improve its record on worker rights.

Nina Stevenson, from the Centre for Sustainable Fashion at London College of Fashion, said the material in the shirts is a genuinely "green" choice by Nike. "Using recycled PET in performance wear is a recognised innovation with real environmental benefits. By using existing resources, Nike are supporting closed loop design that is not compromising ecological balance," said Stevenson.

In a recent interview with the Guardian, Nike's vice-president of sustainable business and innovation, Hannah Jones, said green initiatives such as the shirts made business sense for the company. "The link between sustainability and Nike as a growth company has never been clearer and there is a real business case to be made for making Nike a more sustainable company," she said. Jones also described carbon offsetting, which Nike ditched last year, as a "last resort". And she argued that a decision last year by Nike to resign from the US Chamber of Commerce's board over its stance on climate change, rather than pulling out entirely as companies such as Apple did, had enabled it to continue "a productive dialogue". However, she admitted the chamber was yet to change its mind, which has seen the body campaigning against legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the US.

A Very Funny Trip to Africa

African Host City

Os jogos da Copa do Mundo ocorrerão em 9 cidades sedes:

 

Conheça cada uma delas:

 

• Joanesburgo: É o centro econômico da África e capital da provincial de Gauteng. Porém ao contrário do que algumas pessoas pensam, não é a capital da África do Sul.

É a única cidade que terá dois estádios usados durante o para realização dos jogos do Mundial.

 

• Bloemfontein: É a capital judicial da África do Sul e também capital da província do Estado Livre.

 

Seu nome significa “Fonte das Flores”, e tem milhares de pés de rosas plantados pelas suas ruas.

 

• Pretória: Capital administrativa do país é uma pequena cidade ao norte de Joanesburgo, na província de Gauteng, e tem uma cobiçada, fascinante e envolvente história.

• Cidade do Cabo: É a capital legislativa da África do Sul, formando, junto com Bloemfontein e Pretória 3 capitais nacionais.

É a cidade mais velha e amada dos sul-africanos, constituída por belas construções, longas praias de areia clara e uma rica vida cultura, que faz do local, o destino preferido dos turistas.

 

• Port Elizabeth: Cidade da província do Cabo Oriental, localizada na baía de Alagoa, no sul do país.

 

• Nelspruit: Capital da província de Mpumalanga, situada no vale do Rio Crocodilo a aproximadamente 300 km de Joanesburgo.

• Durban: Cidade de clima tropical e banhada pelas águas aquecidas do Oceano Índico, é um dos melhores lugares da África do Sul para se passar o inverno.

A cidade tem o maior porto do continente africano.

 

• Rustenburg: Cidade sul-africana localizada nas cadeias montanhosas de Magaliesberg, no noroeste do país, onde pode se encontrar as duas maiores minas de platina do mundo.

• Polokwane: Cidade construída a partir de um campo de concentração criado para abrigar mulheres e crianças durante a Guerra dos boers é a capital da província de Limpopo e localiza-se próximo ao Parque Nacional Kruger, a maior área de conservação de fauna bravia da África do Sul.

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