Join Fiachra Keogh as he discusses environmental justice and the power of collective action to counter degradation narratives with Luciana Capuano Mascarenhas. In this episode, Luciana shares the successful story of Vila Nova Esperança, a peri-urban community in São Paulo, Brazil. By engaging in environmental initiatives in their own community, residents of VNE not only proved to the government that they were not contaminating natural resources nearby, making eviction threats cease; but they also got to enjoy the benefits of locally grown organic food, improve the environmental quality of their neighborhood and work together to reach a common goal.