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The world scenario
isn’t good.

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I personally went through
streaks of despair,

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about humanity,
the times, the impacts.

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I don\'t know, I feel
we’ve already reached the deadline,

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the moment when
we have to take this turn.

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I believe this is one of the poles
that may be inspiring that transformation.

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The choice to live in community,

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a community that proposes
to regenerate the environment,

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it’s a choice
to serve the planet,

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but also, it’s for us.

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Why not dream?
What dreams do people have?

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What do we want?
And how much are we doing to make it happen?

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For me, it’s…
Let\'s make our dreams reality!

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Living in community was a choice
to establish deeper human relationships,

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to have the possibility
to be together, and stay together,

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in building a life.

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Of all the stories I\'ve heard,
this place

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has long been considered
a very sacred, very special place.

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Many families from nearby towns

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came here to camp,
to spend time.

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About 14 or 15 years ago,

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the history of this place
began to change.

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Bye bye! Tomorrow we\'re
going on a trip...

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until the end of the month.

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It started as a couple\'s
project for a better life.

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It was a European couple.

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They came here
with the intention of creating a community,

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a space where
there would be no suffering,

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or at least less suffering.

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They arrived on this beach,

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they had to jump out of the boat
and come swimming,

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get past the waves and arrive,

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and cross the river,
when…

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They stood up, they were crossing the river,
and they saw the image,

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they remembered a dream
one of them had many years ago,

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about a place
that was shown to them by dolphins,

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that took them
to the bottom of the sea,

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and showed them a place
where people could live in harmony,

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in peace,
in community,

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and live happily.

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From that moment on,

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they felt that was the right place
to create a reality,

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to be able to live many years,

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and to be able
to live together in harmony.

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The first thing I did when I arrived was
to find out what needed to be done.

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There was no community
when I got here.

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My first natural impulse was:
where can I help?

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And I began to help
cleaning children’s clothes

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with a wheelbarrow,
moving from one place to another,

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to a washing machine, so that
children would have clean clothes.

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Then more people arrived,

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from different parts of the world,

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and we started
to allow ourselves to create.

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Create a reality in which we could welcome
other people who arrived later.

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We started with ourselves,
took care of ourselves,

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and when we achieved that,
we started to open

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so that more people
could come,

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we began to open ourselves
to the world.

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We began to have a vision,
a depth,

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giving meaning to what we were doing.

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We understood that
for it to work on a macro scale,

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we had to give it our all.

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Give all of ourselves,
collaborate as a whole,

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here we had to give it our all
in order to build a firm base to grow.

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We created,
and it expanded.

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Small projects emerged
from within other projects,

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and grew.

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It was very organic,
very alive.

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We were always
a community of 30 people

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doing the possible and the impossible
to do things differently.

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When I got here, my background
was mostly in ecological planning.

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The ecology of this place
is very, very sensitive.

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When you start to build
the first layer of soil,

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you begin exponential,
incredible regeneration,

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because when you create
the first layer,

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life itself
starts to create life.

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The key point
of the territory here

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was sanitation.

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People started coming here
like in 2004, 2005.

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We transformed that,
into this.

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Can you imagine?
All the vegetation that grows here,

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was planted by people.

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This place you see here,
that forest,

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when I arrived, it was the place
where tractors turned around.

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This was a plot of sand,
like the one on the beach.

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None of that vegetation was here.

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Only a few coconut trees,
some older cashew trees.

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But for me, the biggest challenge
is always the same:

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it’s people.

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It’s us,
and the relationships we have.

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I wanted to start by telling you
about the dry toilet system.

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It\'s shit with sawdust.

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Smell.

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What does it smell like?

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From human relations
comes the economy,

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from human relations
comes ecology.

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Hippies will crap in a chic bathroom
and in a hippie bathroom.

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Chic people will only crap
in chic bathrooms,

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so let\'s build chic bathrooms

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so that everyone’s happy,
everyone can crap in peace.

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My name is Marcia, I’ve lived
here in Piracanga for three years,

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but I’ve been on a search
for community living,

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in intentional communities and ecovillages
for more than 10 years.

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I’ve had very deep experiences

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in this outlook of planetary regeneration,
to create a different human culture on Earth,

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to learn to communicate
with the beings of nature

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and create different ways of relating.

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The Instituto Inkiri,
which is the organization

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that made most of these plantations possible,
and took care of this environment,

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was interested in broadening
and deepening

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that regeneration of the ecosystem.

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And then the idea arose
of breeding native bees,

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to recompose this territory.

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Because we know that bees,

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despite being considered one of the
most important living beings on the planet,

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are highly endangered living beings.

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I ask for permission to...

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...to open this,
and see how you are.

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I like to provide respect and trust
in the contact, so they don\'t get scared,

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and eventually we get to
establish that relationship.

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There are dozens of bees,
even hundreds, of native bees,

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and in this territory,
we observe...

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at least 5 to 7 species
of social native bees;

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bees that are socially organized.

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They live in these swarms,
in these hives.

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Here, in the center of this universe,
of this city that is the hive,

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we have a nest

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where the new bees
will emerge from each cell…

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Where the queen laid her eggs,

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where many bees worked,
bringing food, depositing it there,

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and they allow those larvae,
those eggs to develop

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until they become adults
and venture out.

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For me,
when I work with bees,

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they’re above all a source
of inspiration, of social organization.

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A living example
where a group of beings

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organizes and transforms itself
into another organism.

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When we’re in a ritual,

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we’re honoring
our ancestry,

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and we’re honoring the diversity
that exists in the world.

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Inside a circular dance wheel
everyone’s the same,

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no one’s more important
than the other.

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When everyone’s there
in the same position,

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there, we’re one, a single body,
all holding hands,

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all looking at each other,
we become a single body.

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In a certain way it’s a prayer,
we say that a prayer is formed,

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that we’re forming with our bodies,
a mandala,

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a living mandala that moves,

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and this is a message
that we’re sending to the world.

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My name is Maira,
I\'m a biologist.

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I was very excited
to work with permaculture,

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to live in community,

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as a way for us to change
our relationship with nature.

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When we get together
to take care of a place,

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to anchor
and take root in a place.

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Later, we and others
created the Escola da Natureza,

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a project that allowed the development
of many environmental technologies

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here in Piracanga.

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This is our waste collection center,

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where we receive all the recyclable
or reusable waste from the community.

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Some materials are reused
right here in the community,

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juice packaging...

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Here we use reusable packaging
for everything.

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And whoever produces anything
comes here to pick up the packaging they need,

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and whoever uses them,
discards it here.

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For me, as I was already working
with environmental education,

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with permaculture,

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I felt it was a very fertile field,
very beautiful.

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That\'s our composting yard,

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here we make compost piles
for organic waste

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from the community.

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So all the fruit peels,
the dry leaves…

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We’re stacking all that,
and the final product is a very rich fertilizer.

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That\'s one of the areas
of our nursery,

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of our forest nursery,

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here we take care of the plants
when they’re first planted,

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and when they’re ready,
they’re transplanted to the ground.

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The last ten years of my life,

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I’ve dedicated myself to this land,
this space, in community,

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with the support of many people
who passed through here

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and who contributed
for this project to flourish.

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Motherhood only makes sense to me
if it’s in community.

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And I can\'t imagine
a different life.

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Since Caioá came into the world,

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the whole community has embraced him.

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The whole community...

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Everyone in Piracanga loves Caioá.

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The families began to come
when the school was created.

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It arose from the movement
of some families who wanted to live here,

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and from the beginning
it was built by families.

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That’s why Piracanga,

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from the beginning,
has been a space inspired by children.

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And it will be the word
\"Encontrou\"

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It starts with an \"E\"...

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This word here.

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This one, Luquinhas.

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Today we see school much more
as a space for coexistence.

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It’s the first place where
human beings who arrive here

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begin to socialize together,

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they begin to have a notion
of democracy, of collectivity.

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It counteracts that excess of individuality
that we create,

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and it’s very important
to perceive others,

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and mainly to perceive
our planet as our home.

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And I believe that this is one of the great
characteristics of the Escola Inkiri,

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is that respect for ourselves,

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for others
with whom we interact,

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and for the planet.

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My life has been very connected
to education.

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My mom is an educator,
who in the 80s

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opened a school in Porto Alegre
called Amigos do Verde.

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And I had the luck to grow in that school
until I was 10 years old.

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When I grew up
and became an adult,

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I became very interested
in intentional communities.

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I started to find out
about some communities,

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I took a permaculture course,
parallel to the universities I was attending,

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up until a certain moment of my life

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I was in that school,
to which I went back to work,

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the Amigos do Verde school,
I was director there for eight years.

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Very happy with my job,
but very unhappy in my personal life.

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I no longer wanted
to live in the city.

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I felt I wasn’t closing cycles,
I was in transit,

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the information overload in the city
wasn’t good for me,

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on many levels.

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I already knew Piracanga,

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and I came here to take a course
at the Escola da Natureza.

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But when I came here
and started the permaculture course,

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I saw the school,

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and when I found out about the process
it was going through,

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its transformation
into a free school…

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It was beginning to construct
a new pedagogy.

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And I really loved that.
I really related to it.

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I started doing volunteer work
here at the school,

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which lasted a few months

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and after that
I never left.

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Since I’ve lived here,
by the sea,

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I no longer imagine
living far from the beach.

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That bird is so beautiful.

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The way it sings...

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...is very different.

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Very different.

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I wake up very early,
I like to wake up early,

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sometimes before the sun rises,

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I prepare my yerba-mate
and I go surfing.

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Nowadays, much of my routine
and much of my life,

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is guided by the tides
and by the moon.

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I perceive that Great Mother
who embraces us,

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who gives this planet
a certain balance,

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that’s very clear to me now.

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Hearing the sea,
perceiving the tides…

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That connects me with myself.

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Many times,
more than surfing the waves,

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I just like to come into contact
with this salty water.

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That centers me and gives me
a deep connection with myself,

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and mainly,
the will to live.

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As long as we\'re here,
taking care of this place,

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we’ll continue to have pure water,

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we’ll continue to have living nature,
the pure air we breathe.

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In addition to taking care
of this territory

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and inspiring
the surrounding communities,

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we finally ended up
being an inspiration

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to people who want to create
new communities,

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start new projects
and movements of this kind.

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To build a web, an integrated network
of different human experiences

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that set out
to regenerate existence…

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I feel that this is
what the planet needs now.

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So that what’s left for those to come
is a memory of something beautiful,

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well done,
that inspires future generations.

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I hope this ecovillage
can continue to grow

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with these fundamental characteristics
of preservation, earth regeneration,

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of bringing tools that inspire
more and more people.

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There’s much work to be done,

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because doing something different
requires a lot of work.

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And there’s a lot of work to do,
wherever it is.

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Ecovillages, intentional communities,
traditional communities

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are examples of living experiences

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of how we as humans
can choose more conscious paths

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for our existence
here on earth;

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ways of life
that depend less on consumption

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and that are nourished more
by living together.

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The difference starts with you.

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You have to be the flame
the fire,

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to spark others
who also want to take part.

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Be the center
of what you want to do differently.