What if a degraded urban area beneath power lines could become a vibrant center of life?

📍 In the heart of Rio’s North Zone, CPP Luzes do Amanhã is turning this vision into reality.

This is the story of grassroots regeneration.

🏞️ Once a dumping ground, now a certified organic agroforest:

🌿 100+ species
👩‍🌾 Monthly volunteer days
🎒 Weekly school visits

All co-created by the community — with zero irrigation, zero fertilizer.

☀️ What we do:

• Welcome children from neighborhood schools and social projects in the favela on educational days in the agroforestry;

• Grow certified organic food and share it with everyone who visits the space;

• Contribute to the participatory guarantee system in an agroecology network;

• Organize public events with cultural and educational programs;

• Protect local biodiversity, with +100 species registered on our land, including fruit trees, PANCS, and medicinal plants.

🇧🇷🌱 E se uma área urbana degradada abaixo de linhas de energia pudesse se tornar um vibrante centro de vida?

📍 No coração da Zona Norte do Rio, o CPP Luzes do Amanhã está transformando essa visão em realidade.

Esta é a história da regeneração popular.

🏞️ Antes um depósito de lixo, agora uma agrofloresta orgânica certificada:

🌿 Mais de 100 espécies
👩‍🌾 Dias mensais de voluntariado
🎒 Visitas escolares semanais

Tudo cocriado pela comunidade — com zero irrigação e zero fertilizantes.

☀️ O que nós fazemos:

• Recebemos crianças das escolas do bairro e dos projetos sociais da favela em dias educativos na agrofloresta;

• Cultivamos alimentos orgânicos certificados e dividimos com todos que frequentam o espaço;

• Contribuímos no sistema participativo de garantia em uma rede de agroecologia;

• Organizamos eventos públicos com programas culturais e educativos;

• Protegemos a biodiversidade local, com +100 espécies registradas em nosso terreno que incluem frutíferas, PANCS, e medicinais.

We are on a mission to unite people to build and share knowledge on how to regenerate our earth. This includes ecological, cultural and political economy knowledge— guided mainly by agroecological principles, since we grow food— that is maintained alive by and through the community.

There is a disconnection of people with nature at big cities that comes from a lack of engagement with nature as something we are part of. The knowledge that we are nature and therefore we share the same cycles and depend on it's balance, being directly affected by it, is something most modern people, and specially people who lack the opportunity to be in touch with the land, suffer from. The result is the disconnection with ourselves and with each other.

We've structured and have been testing four main ways to accomplish our mission:

1. Weekly educational days in the agroforestry with the children from the social projects in the favela and the neighborhood schools, sharing knowledge about growing food and cultural aspects of land protection;
2. Monthly public events with cultural and educational programs, offering participants the opportunity to learn with a hands-on approach;
3. A brand to represent our mission and values that is applied to digital communication across channels;
4. Working to regenerate the soil and plant an agroforest. Nowadays we already have +100 species registered on our land, including fruit trees, PANCS, and medicinal plants.

ESG ecosystem, WEB3 grants, public notices

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil