PROJECT

Green Maré aims to contribute to the fight for environmental justice and build an agenda that guides environmental issues in Maré as a basic right of the population, acting in the following ways:

Research

Gather data and contribute to Maré's socio-environmental diagnoses.

Articulation

Articulate with public bodies, partners and local organizations.

Mobilization

Create forms of engagement for different profiles of residents regarding environmental issues.

Interventions

Transform public spaces with nature-based solutions such as rain gardens, tree planting, composting.

Training

Contribute to the formation of new protagonists in the territory and that these new actors act in the fight for environmental justice.

Maré is located between the three main roads of the city and has few green areas, which contributes to the formation of "heat islands", which are characterized by high temperatures and air pollution. It also has a history of struggles for basic services, such as adequate sanitation involving sewage treatment, clean piped water and effective garbage collection. This situation deteriorates the quality of life and negatively impacts the health of its residents. It is our objective to develop and support actions that contribute to the fight for these rights.

Photo below: "What do you do with your garbage?"
Action taken to raise awareness of the importance of caring for the environment, carried out by Herbert Vianna Cultural Canvas

MAIN ACTIONS AND ACTIVITIES

#Climão Campaign: We need to talk about climate change in the favela

The campaign was born in 2020, with a call for employees to build socio-environmental mobilization experiences and communicate the effects of climate change that impact residents of the territory. The proposal is to reflect on the consequences of the climate crisis, seeking to guarantee environmental justice and the socio-environmental rights for populations in slums and to create tools to face the problem. A series of communication materials, articles and characters were produced to address the environmental issue in an attractive way and disseminate this theme for all ages. See all the campaign production here.

According to the Coppe/UFRJ document on strategies for adapting to climate change in the city of Rio de Janeiro, the region where the 16 favelas of Maré are located is very prone to flooding and high temperatures. Climate change poses a high risk for the development of pandemics, such as covid-19. Therefore, it is an urgent matter that needs to be addressed.

#Maré Starts Here

Mobilization actions and artistic intervention with the people of Mare, especially children and adolescents, who call attention to the disposal of garbage, as well as to environmental violence, characterized by environmental racism, such as the recurrence of clogging of drains, demonstrating the absence of public policies. Its first edition was held during the week of the 1st National Congress Talking About Public Security in Maré. All actions are publicized on the organization's social networks and the materials are consolidated on our website and social networks.

#Breathe Maré

Is a project that aims to build a diagnosis of air quality, identify heat islands and green areas, observing how these indicators impact the health of residents of the 16 slums in Maré. After the construction of this diagnosis, it is intended to carry out an environmental intervention in the public space of a pedagogical nature, whose objective is to point out solutions to problems that will be identified throughout the project. (Ilustrative Picture)

#Maré Sanitation Letter

In 2019, Redes da Maré teamed up with data_labe and Casa Fluminense to produce the 2020 Maré Sanitation Letter, in partnership with residents, researchers and environmental activists from the 16 favelas of Maré. Several actions and proposals for public policies were built, which can be seen here. The second edition of the letter was produced at the V Maré Sanitation Meeting (08/27/22). on the website: “Publicações”. Did you see garbage or sewage on the street? Call us on WhatsApp: 55 21 99957 3216

Photo 1: "What do you do with your garbage?"
Action taken to raise awareness of the importance of caring for the environment, carried out by Herbert Vianna Cultural Canvas

Photo 2:
Meeting of Maré residents and collectives to discuss the environment, climate change and think about improvements for the territory before the 26th UN Climate Conference (COP-26), held in November 2021.

Watch the video of the planting effort at Colégio Estadual Professor João Borges de Moraes carried out by Green Maré.

Maré says NO to coronavirus’

Since ‘Maré says NO to coronavirus’, our staff started to assume the demands arising from the campaign as a priority in their routine. The team from the Urban and Socio-Environmental Rights axis has been working on different front lines, such as distributing food baskets, digitalizing deliveries, assisting the public online and other day-to-day tasks.

GREEN MARÉ IN THE MEDIA

FLUMINENSE HOUSE | 10.30.2022

Local agendas launch their publications aiming municipal elections

MARÉ DE NOTÍCIAS | 17.07.2020

What does the pandemic have to do with the environment?

MARÉ DE NOTÍCIAS | 08.12.2020

A laboratory of memories in Maré?

MARÉ DE NOTÍCIAS |29.01.2021

Campaign develops work to talk about climate change in Maré

Photo below: 1 and 2: "Maré Begins Here"
Urban artistic intervention in 30 culverts in Nova Holanda and Baixa do Sapateiro, with 25 children participating to raise awareness about garbage disposal in the streets and clogging of culverts. March 2022.

Equipe

Coordinator
Mariane Rodrigues

Territorial Mobilizer
Felipe Bacelar

Axis Coordinator accompanying the project
Shyrlei Rosendo

GREEN MARÉ CONTACT

E-mail: eixodusa@redesdamare.org.br

WhatsApp from Redes da Maré: (21) 99924-6462

Address: Rua das Rosas, 54 - Nova Holanda (10am to 5pm)

16 Residents’ Associations of Maré

Photo: 1 and 2: Verdejando Project implemented by TV Globo, in September 2019, which promoted a joint effort to plant seedlings and environmental education workshops for all ages.

HIGHLIGHTS

2021

Launch of the "Climão Campaign - We need to talk about climate change in the favelas", based on the public call “The Maré WeWant”. | From Maré Ação, the Urban and Socio-environmental Rights axis started a process of evaluation and monitoring of the urban interventions in the territory of Maré. | Team participation in the “Maré-Paraisópolis Connection: initiatives for resilient, inclusive and fair cities”, an online event held by UN Habitat. | Closure of the first part of the Climão Campaign on the Environment Day, June 5th, with Live Climão.

A chat about the construction of this proposal, the exchange with guests linked to this theme, in addition to the launch of the campaign book that brought together all the materials created.

2020

During the pandemic, the team sought ways to articulate with the Public Prosecutor's Office to monitor CEDAE's works, which made it possible to approach the sanitation agenda and understand Cedae's conduct adjustment term and how these works impact Maré. | The 3rd Maré Sanitation Meeting was held in partnership with the Cocôzap project and with the presence of the COMLURB manager and the GAEMA MP/RJ prosecutor, in addition to the collective production of the Maré Sanitation Letter. Through articulation with Casa Fluminense, the document was included in the Rio 2030 agenda. | Creation of the Laboratory of Environmental Memories that emerged from a partnership between Redes da Maré, the Memória Ambiental platform and data_labe, with the aim of experimenting and supporting new ways of producing environmental memories by young people from Maré.

2019

Green Maré + Verdejando (TV Globo): Green Maré partnered with the Verdejando project and managed to expand planting to more than 1,000 seedlings in six different points in Maré, in addition to implementing a compost bin in the Comlurb management yard in Maré. More information in the G1 Report.

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2018

Green Maré at Schools: The Green Maré project team carried out environmental education activities and planted around 100 seedlings, in partnership with Professor João Borges de Moraes State School, in a garden within the school grounds. Activities were carried out with teachers from CIEP Ministro Gustavo Capanema school and planting efforts were carried out at Nova Maré, in partnership with Herbert Vianna Cultural Canvas and Comlurb.