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Environment and Development

Extractivist economies often ignore environmental and social costs. We document and analyze stories of resistance and sustainable pathways that show another way is possible.

Art 68. The El Zapotillo dam and the resistance that perforates power

Culture and IdentityEnvironment and Development

Temacapulín, Acasico, and Palmarejo stopped flooding from El Zapotillo through organization, support, and legal victories. After two decades, they avoided ...

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Art 66. Disputed territory, community on its feet

Culture and IdentityEnvironment and Development

The community of Santa Marta, repopulated in 1987 at the end of the Salvadoran civil war, now faces new threats: ...

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Art 65. Go over to the other side

Culture and IdentityEnvironment and DevelopmentResistance and Alternatives

Grupo Avanti is a start-up, in fumigating, that has recovered from a resounding failure that nearly led to its closure. ...

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Art 64. The struggle for Ñembi Guasu

Culture and IdentityEnvironment and DevelopmentResistance and Alternatives

This story revolves around the struggle of Bolivia's indigenous peoples for the recognition and self-governance of their territories, particularly the ...

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Art 33. ABC´s: Classroom forest coexistence

Culture and IdentityEnvironment and DevelopmentResistance and Alternatives

Forest school Pambiliño, a family's life project in the tropical forest of the Ecuadorian Chocó. A symbiosis between forest restoration ...

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Art 61. Cableways – revolution more aerial than terrestrial

Energy and MobilityEnvironment and DevelopmentProduction and Food

In Colombia’s highlands, rural communities have engineered cableways to overcome isolation—an aerial innovation transforming transport, fostering cooperation, and protecting the ...

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Art 58. Saving the future

Culture and IdentityEnvironment and DevelopmentProduction and Food

In San Martín Sacatepéquez, Guatemala, Mayan communities are using their territory sustainably through ecotourism. And in order to put the ...

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Art 57. I didn’t think it would be a big deal

Culture and IdentityEnvironment and DevelopmentProduction and Food

REPASAIL is the name of the network in San Vicente, El Salvador, which is committed to organic farming, self-sufficiency and ...

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Art 55. The forest, our greatest treasure

Culture and IdentityEconomy and MarketEnvironment and DevelopmentProduction and FoodResistance and Alternatives

Juliana Miranda from Chocó Andino in Ecuador decided against a traditional education and instead learned from the forest. With the ...

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