CULTIVATING FLOWERS OF THE FUTURE: AGUA BOA
DOCUMENTARY HDV 52 min
"Cultivating Flowers of the Future: Good Water" presents a Brazilian government’s experience that recovers environmental liabilities, restores participatory democracy and acts ahead of climate changes.
What people say about the documentary:
Danielle MITTERRAND
Fondation France-Libertés
„When good people work to turn a calamity into an opportunity, our hope for a better world rises. That is how I found about the „Cultivating Good Water” Program carried out by the Itaipu hydro power plant on the border between Brazil and Paraguay. Built at first for merely economic purposes, decades later a good understanding of the politics of water committed to the welfare of local residents has turned it into a source of life for all. It is an encouragement for those bent on thinking politics from another standpoint.”
Leonardo BOFF
Charter of the Earth Comission
„This documentary „Cultivating Flowers of the Future: Agua Boa” shows how the world's largest hydro power plant, Itaipu Binacional (Brazil-Paraguay) is capable of bringing about a veritable ecological revolution putting into practice ecology's 4 major branches:
- the environmental, through environmental conservation programs
- the social, by integrating 29 nearby cities with 1 million people and involving them in river recovery, green farming and waste recycling actions;
- the mental, by introducing a new vision of Mother Earth and training over 10.000 educators;
- finally, the deep or integral ecology, which creates an integrated view of the Earth and Cosmos within a picture portraying a spiritual outlook on reality.
This is exemplary work capable of giving rise to other similar initiatives, which gives us hope that the other world is not only possible but feasible and necessary.”