Ecobairro São Paulo

Type: Neighborhood
Population: 344.632
Extension: 26,5 km²
Density:  13.000 inhabitants per km²

Key Aspects

The EcoBairro Permanent Program is an initiative born from the Instituto Roerich da Paz e Cultura do Brasil (SSA) together with the Associação Urusvati Mantenedora – Casa Urusvati (SP), and that received support from the United Nations (2005). 

With the focus on sustainability that penetrates the everyday life, Ecobairro adopts the proposed 8 nuclei of sustainability for city of the future: Education, Economy, Spirituality, Health, Communication, Politics, Culture and Ecology.

The DNA of Ecobairro proposes balanced systemic actions in all the areas such that sustainability emerges as a result of those actions.

Context

Ecobairro proposes to support residents of the neighborhood to adopt sustainability practices inside and outside their houses, using the following methodologies:

• Identify different social actors in the neighborhood, stimulating their cooperation and sustainable practice;
• Identify, together with the community, measures to help foster sustainability practices, managing their implementation;
• Establish partnerships;
• Make the experiences public, to foster inspiration for other potential experiences;

Challenges

• Time and collective agendas
• Public Power Engagement
• Include Business and companies as well as Universities

The aim for the future is to replicate the experiment in 32 municipalities