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You Know Environment Has Arrived as an Issue in Brazil…
By Keith R | February 21, 2007
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Loading...…when it becomes the theme of samba school parades during Carnaval! 
All joking aside, two of São Paulo’s well-known samba schools picked environmental themes for this year’s Carnaval march. Rosas de Ouro (“Golden Roses”) picked “The Planet is Blue” (A Terra é Azul) to popularize the global warming issue.
Their honorary grand marshal was Marcos Pontes, the first Brazilian astronaut who rode in the Soyuz. The photos here (click to enlarge) are from the many in Terra’s Carnaval 2007 coverage.
And then there’s the samba school Vai-Vai (which doesn’t translate well, but roughly means “get moving!”), whose theme was recycling. Many of their floats and decorations were made with recycled materials, including old compact discs (CDs). Click on the video to watch the Globo network’s report on how Vai-Vai put together their presentation.
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