From N.Y. to Rio searching for Ecowarriors

[Doris Neubauer]

Eufemia is an ordinary woman in her 50s – not highly sophisticated, not utterly rich living in the midth of nowhere in Chiapas, Mexico. And still, she is something special: In the 1990′s her brother started planting local trees in areas that weren’t suited for farming. One day, when he was coming back from his field, he was killed by some of his fellow villagers because of his reforestation work. No matter that her brother was killed for his ideas though, Eufemia bravely continues to reforest her community with the help of her family and together, they have reforested more than 200 hectares of rainforest.

“Small” projects of “normal” people are changing the world for the better – such as a seed grow project in Quito. (c) The Permacyclists

“Ecowarriors”, that´s how the belgian-US-couple Anne and Dave call people like Eufemia or like the self-sustainable-community The HAUS project in Houston or like the founder of an illegal, but fair farmers market in Ecuador: Not big organisation, but normal people like you and me who understand that they can change the future for the better with small project like planting trees. On their monthlong (bus)trip from New York to the RIO+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, Anne and Dave are searching for examples how to change to world for the better and are doing the same with their project Permacyclists.

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