Friday Video: City-scale Sustainability in Curitiba, Brazil

 

Happy Friday!

I’m happy to pass along this great video — from the fabulous EcoCity blog — about how the Brazilian city of Curitiba has garnered world acclaim for its successful implementation so many city-wide sustainability solutions.

The video is a trailer for the actual DVD of a longer documentary about the town.

The documentary is getting rave reviews and being heavily advertised in the “alternative” theaters in my neighborhood.

This week has been a blur of meetings with lots of folks about a variety of practical, district and city-wide sustainability and finance initiatives.

Whether its power transmission, existing home retrofits or a master-planned development,  our partners are finding out that, in many cases, there can be lots of (stimulus) money and good will at the deal table, but there’s still a hairy problem to get the cooperation of the many financial players needed to make the whole deal work.

Seeing how the City of Curitiba managed to overcome barriers lets us go into the weekend knowing that practical solutions to scaling up and financing sustainable solutions are at hand.

Have a great weekend!

Photo credit: Flickr/Bruno Henrique Barruta Barreto