By sharing experiences we witnessed of daily care for the watershed’s ecosystems, its organic vegetable plots, seed banks and community spaces, “How to eat a river” maps a different reality of one of the world’s most polluted rivers, demonstrating how small-scale actions make a tangible difference and enable the imagination of alternative futures.
I recently had an incredible opportunity to get intensive feedback from a range of digital commons experts on how to support transitions to a care- and commons-oriented water culture in this polluted watershed through our organizing and communications work with entre-ríos.
Crouching on the banks of the Bogotá River, after its serpentine path through Colombia’s capital city’s urban sprawl, the smell is overpowering. Islands of white foam sail by on a stream of black water, which navigates car tires, clothes and plastic containers, tangled layers of waste sedimented over time, making the riverbanks an archive of …
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