An interview with Curitiba’s Jamie Lerner
CNN recently interviewed Jamie Lerner, the former mayor of Curitiba, Brazil. Because it’s a one-page interview, it lacks depth. Still, it does a decent job of introducing to CNN readers Lerner’s fresh ideas for changing communities.
Everything (in Curitiba) started with the children. We started to teach the children in every school over six months, how to separate the garbage and the children teach their parents. So that’s why the city of Curitiba since 1989, for almost 20 years, has had the highest rate of separation of garbage in the world, at 70 percent. Everything starts with the children. I’m obsessed with the idea of how to make the children understand their own city, because if they understand their city, they will respect it better.
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