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  • Gisele Bündchen Campaigns To Protect Amazon Water

    Associated Press:
    A campaign to protect the Amazon’s Xingu River from deforestation and pollution has a fashionable new defender: supermodel Gisele Bündchen.
    Bündchen has endorsed a campaign by the Socioenvironmental Institute to protect the endangered headwaters and the rain forest along the Xingu River in the southern Amazon, she said on her website.
    The campaign is called Y [...]

  • Brazil To Use World Cup As Window For Its Agribusiness

    Brazzilmag:
    The International Relations Office of Agribusiness of Brazil’s Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply, starts in Germany a campaign for promoting Brazilian foodstuff during the World Cup.
    The actions will be carried out up until the 12th of July in Berlin, Munich and Frankfurt. The aim is to promote Brazilian agribusiness through showing foodstuff produced [...]

  • Music: Brazil’s Latest Export Product

    Débora Rubin
    Brazil wants to show its beat. If this is the country of music, why not export it? It was with
    this idea in mind that project Music from Brazil, which brings together associations of professionals in the music business and government organizations like Apex, the Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency, was established.
    The idea [...]

  • The World Cup Is Already Big Business For Ronaldo

    Steve Kingstone / BBC:
    Not the shaven-headed football superstar, but Ronaldo, the street vendor on 25 de Março, a bustling commercial street in the heart of Sao Paulo. ‘This stuff is selling well,’ he says, showing off a giant roll of satin emblazoned with the Brazilian flag. Customers buy the patriotic fabric by the metre. ‘They [...]

  • Cachaça Made In Brazil

    That’s what happens if you drink too much of our caipirinhas.
    Statue of our late and very famous poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade – Rio de Janeiro/Brazil
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    Eu tinha essa foto há algum tempo. Depois vi no Kibeloco, mas gostaria de postá-la com um texto mais ’sóbrio’. Encontrei-o no blog da Santa, que aliás, recomendo:
    Arte pública. [...]

  • Os Novos Empreendedores (Portuguese/English/Spanish)

    Novos Empreendedores
    A responsabilidade social corporativa, o estilo de gestão do momento que visa manter os objetivos
    da empresa alinhados com os temas sociais, vai além da entrega de um cheque à uma instituição de caridade ou o financiamento de uma fundação para obter benefícios tributários. As empresas começam
    a perceber que é possível gerar dinheiro com as [...]

  • Ana Hickmann Adds Charm and Value to Jewels Made in Brazil

    Brazzil Magazine:
    Brazilian jewels are already very successful in the country and abroad. What would happen if personalities in the fashion world signed the collections? Two jewellers from the state of São Paulo, in southeastern Brazil, Denoir and Guilherme Duque, are betting on partnerships that may add value to the products.
    Denoir has invited top model Ana [...]

  • Furniture Hub In Brazil Catches The Eye Of Algerian Importer

    Geovana Pagel
    The furniture hub of Arapongas, city in the southern Brazilian state of Paraná, caught the attention of Arab importers.
    Last week, the entrepreneur
    Tritat Khaled was in Brazil to participate in an international business roundtable, which gathered 30 furniture manufacturers from the region and international buyers from 16 countries. As well as the Algerian, visiting Arapongas [...]

  • Brazil Sí, Iran No

    Through a process of accountability, Brazil has won world community’s trust.
    OhmyNews:
    Earlier this month, Brazil
    launched a full-scale uranium enrichment facility in Resende, some 145 kilometers outside of Rio de Janeiro.
    The facility will produce 60% of the fuel needed for Angra I and Angra II, the country’s largest power plants. These 2 nuclear reactors produce 40% of [...]

  • The US Real Estate Bubble Has Moved To Brazil

    We have our problems just like any other country in the world but, Brazil is much more than São Paulo…
    Richard Conti – Part I
    … There is much welcomed hope though for those believers in real estate as an investment. The hope lies in Brazil where the bubble has not even gotten close to popping. As [...]

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