How To Clean Up Mumbai Smartly

Get Ready To Sing With Jaime

The former mayor of Curitiba who transformed that city of less than two million people into a sustainability Champ. Mr Lerner tells us that 70% of the garbage has been separated for the past 20 years and his famous double-articulated buses have been copied in 83 cities around the world. Jaime also claims that any city in the world can be improved within 3 years and recommends urban acupuncture for quick results. I totally agree. Provided you don't have Bretton Woods pen-pushers colonising you with crappy transformation programs.

Bet You Didn't Know You Understood Portuguese

Recyclagem needs no explanation. Papel and plastico neither. See, I told you! Lixo means garbage and misto obviously means something other than paper and plastic. Actually it means mixed. But you knew that from having ordered fritto misto in an Italian restaurant before.

What you will have a harder time understanding though is why we can't sort our garbage to make recycling easier instead of throwing stuff that we can use over and over again many times (like the overtherm egg packs that ensure safe travels from the hen to fridge). We should allow Brazil to inspire us where as many as 800,000 people sort garbage.

And what do you think lixo nuclear means?