Comments on: Ecocity World Summit 2008 http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/04/25/ecocity-world-summit-2008/ News & commentary on sustainability, activism, urban planning, politics, and our world. Wed, 23 May 2012 18:26:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Suzana Gueiros http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/04/25/ecocity-world-summit-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-55050 Suzana Gueiros Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:14:30 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/2008/04/25/ecocity-world-summit-2008/#comment-55050 Dear Mr. Gavin Thank you for posting my comments. Mainly, in developing countries like Brazil, when solving and gaining in one environmental issue we are always facing up others, problematic ones. The Amazon Region, as we mentioned, its forest lost, and other dillemas related to indigenous causes are always highlighted on the respectfull international news, however, never ever noticed the industrial park strategically located for international boundaries, with finantial support and less attention given to the environmental impact management and the nature of product in terms of eco-design improvements. In my oppinion, although the industrial park has partially solved the economic bottlenecks and the attractiveness for investmentors, it might be a problem to deal with, if at some point, we do not built partnership in the improovement of design features and its local production, given the special atention to environmental aspects and targets to reduce or to avoid industrialization negative impacts on resources at the Amazon. Dear Mr. Gavin

Thank you for posting my comments.
Mainly, in developing countries like Brazil, when solving and gaining in one environmental issue we are always facing up others, problematic ones. The Amazon Region, as we mentioned, its forest lost, and other dillemas related to indigenous causes are always highlighted on the respectfull international news, however, never ever noticed the industrial park strategically located for international boundaries, with finantial support and less attention given to the environmental impact management and the nature of product in terms of eco-design improvements.
In my oppinion, although the industrial park has partially solved the economic bottlenecks and the attractiveness for investmentors, it might be a problem to deal with, if at some point, we do not built partnership in the improovement of design features and its local production, given the special atention to environmental aspects and targets to reduce or to avoid industrialization negative impacts on resources at the Amazon.

]]> By: Gavin Hudson http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/04/25/ecocity-world-summit-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-55051 Gavin Hudson Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:09:49 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/2008/04/25/ecocity-world-summit-2008/#comment-55051 Dear Ms. Gueiros, Thank you very much for your clarification of the points made at the Ecocity World Summit 2008. It seems that we got it wrong and I apologize on behalf of EcoWorldly. This article reflects what one writer took from the summit and in this case it seems that there was some valuable information lost in translation. Thank you again for the time you took to correct this oversight. Best, Gavin Hudson EcoWorldly, Lead Writer Dear Ms. Gueiros,

Thank you very much for your clarification of the points made at the Ecocity World Summit 2008. It seems that we got it wrong and I apologize on behalf of EcoWorldly. This article reflects what one writer took from the summit and in this case it seems that there was some valuable information lost in translation.

Thank you again for the time you took to correct this oversight.

Best,

Gavin Hudson
EcoWorldly, Lead Writer

]]> By: Suzana Gueiros http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/04/25/ecocity-world-summit-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-55052 Suzana Gueiros Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:24:41 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/2008/04/25/ecocity-world-summit-2008/#comment-55052 Hello there! So...I guess you didn´t quite hear of what was said in my article presentation....the Amazon paper and slide show was proposing a strategy in order to empower the local industries - which have supports and benefits for being at the Amazon region and promoting economic development - in order to have an Eco-design model strategy for their products and processess. Until now, they are quite interested to have industrial parks, however, considerations about environmental impacts of the industrial activities are not quite the main goal for the acceptance for new investors. On the other side, we may notice that lots of foreigners are simply romanticizing the indian population and culture, so what we really needos to get them educated and working, instead of pretending that they are indians with MP3 players, nike shoes and good dancing presentations for tourists. One thing is to preserve cultural values and identity, the other is to pretend, and ask for an everlasting support, land, and never get engaged on work, also, because they don´t need....with all the International NGO presence, supporting their everlasting appealling patterns of receiving support. We need a strategy to empower local industries with environmentally less impactfull products and processes, as well as, when focusing on the poor, to socially and economically empower them learning how to survive and to be sustainable without depending on international NGOs financial support. I also mentioned, that there are many national programs related to that region, not internationally known, for reasons I don´t quite understand, but the military forces are there, and with special programs - as I myself saw at the frontiers - with education, medical assistance - in regions were no private health plan will find it interesting to invest.... The stigma of the military actions in Brazil, has to be change, their presence at the region has not only kept our sovereingty by implementing local programs related to frontiers, but more than this, they have implemented systems of monitoring the Amazon region, to plan actions against irregular wood and deforestation, ilicits such as traffic drugs operations at frontiers, among other support programs to constantly promote and improve the Region. I am very sorry that you didn´t quite understand that... Suzana Gueiros Hello there!
So…I guess you didn´t quite hear of what was said in my article presentation….the Amazon paper and slide show was proposing a strategy in order to empower the local industries – which have supports and benefits for being at the Amazon region and promoting economic development – in order to have an Eco-design model strategy for their products and processess. Until now, they are quite interested to have industrial parks, however, considerations about environmental impacts of the industrial activities are not quite the main goal for the acceptance for new investors. On the other side, we may notice that lots of foreigners are simply romanticizing the indian population and culture, so what we really needos to get them educated and working, instead of pretending that they are indians with MP3 players, nike shoes and good dancing presentations for tourists.
One thing is to preserve cultural values and identity, the other is to pretend, and ask for an everlasting support, land, and never get engaged on work, also, because they don´t need….with all the International NGO presence, supporting their everlasting appealling patterns of receiving support.

We need a strategy to empower local industries with environmentally less impactfull products and processes, as well as, when focusing on the poor, to socially and economically empower them learning how to survive and to be sustainable without depending on international NGOs financial support.

I also mentioned, that there are many national programs related to that region, not internationally known, for reasons I don´t quite understand, but the military forces are there, and with special programs – as I myself saw at the frontiers – with education, medical assistance – in regions were no private health plan will find it interesting to invest….

The stigma of the military actions in Brazil, has to be change, their presence at the region has not only kept our sovereingty by implementing local programs related to frontiers, but more than this, they have implemented systems of monitoring the Amazon region, to plan actions against irregular wood and deforestation, ilicits such as traffic drugs operations at frontiers, among other support programs to constantly promote and improve the Region.

I am very sorry that you didn´t quite understand that…

Suzana Gueiros

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