sexta-feira, 13 de agosto de 2010

Revista Continental Airlines

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The Greening of São Paulo

Brazil's capital of finance, fashion, and fine food is showing that even the world's largest cities can fight pollution with fervor

It's a typical Thursday night in Vila Madalena, a bohemian neighborhood in São Paulo that's home to cutting-edge art galleries and fashion-forward boutiques, cafés, and restaurants. Inside Ekoa Café a sizable group of Paulistanos, as residents are known, has taken over the second floor to bat around ideas about sustainable design while sipping exquisite coffee and Uruguayan wine, both organic. Fábio Souza, director of Brazil's Design Institute for Sustainable Development, oversees the conversation.

The group sits at a wooden table in chairs made from certified ecologically harvested teakwood. The lampshades around the room are fashioned from used coffee filters, sustainable bamboo, and recycled coconut shells. The stairs leading down to the bathroom were telephone poles in a former life, and the toilet flushes with rainwater.

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