THE CURRENT MODEL OF DEVELOPMENT IS LARGELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PLANET´S PERMANENT CRISIS
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Production and alimentation
Eating is a political act. Nobody forces us to eat what we eat. It depends on the decision of each person. But accessing healthy food is not always easy, neither affordable. Farmers and producers are faced with similar problems on the task of reaching our table with organic healthy food.
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Economy and market
Commodification of the Common Property, perpetual growth ignoring the finitude of resources, profits at the cost of the nature depredation, wild consumption. Isn´t it time to think about an economy and market that rotate around the Common Good?
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Environment and development
Socio – environmental damage is not considered by industries and economists when calculating their profits. But there is an alternative to this current: Real stories of proactive resistance and a development for life.
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Culture and identity
The so-called modernity is characterized by the alignment of the middle class, the unbridled globalized consumption and the sad trilogy: Work, home, shopping center. Genuine development based on culture, identity and territory is a possible response to all this.
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City and accomodation
A growing global population and urban areas, the need for decent housing is today bigger than ever. What is the most successful slogan for the metropolization: Commonlife quality or every man on his own? Paths to a city that offers life to all.
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Energy
The challenge is to connect from one’s own autonomy: in the energy and mental. Energy autonomy based on renewable sources and in a decentralized way.
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Resistance and Alternatives
Resistance and alternatives, complementary ways to overcome the logic of current development and transform paradigms.
Last experience
Women on the hillsides, building city
Adaptation to climate change and resilience to risks has the face of a woman. In the neighborhoods of El Alto and the hillsides of La Paz, women not only train in risk management but also become builders of rainwater harvesting systems. THEY are the ones that guarantee life, building the future.
