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CANCHAQUÉ, Peru – Nicolás Rodríguez Julca dreams to be an agricultural engineer. He’s just 9 years old, studies in 5th grade Elementary at 14498 San Francisco School, and he’s the Environmental Chief. Adding the care of the place where he lives, one of his tasks is to promote healthy food habits among his classmates.   Currently, the school has stimulated the families to own orchards at their houses, so having more variety in food they consume.   Precisely, Nicolas’ job consists to visit these houses every week, to register the orchards status in a file: if the soil is already prepared, if it’s already planted, irrigated, removed the bad weed, or if it’s the harvest time. Based upon these results, Nicolás can give some recommendations.   Nicolás’ teacher Haydeé Choque sulco supervises the work, opines the boy is a leader along, as well as the orchard improves the social-environmental skills of the students. The vegetables cropped at the school and the hom...

Two girls and two boys who don’t look like anything found a space in the music to sound like one.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo . Photographs & videos provided by Telón de Boca .   PIURA CITY, Peru – We live almost unconsciousness into a polyphonic world. If we fit to the etimology –multiple sounds —it’s enough to get out to the street, and if we focus in what we hear, we’ll notice not all has similar tone and intensity. The problem is those sounds are not combined, they don’t have the purpose to set up like a pretty sequence to the ear. That’s why we end to experience noise, probably a stress episode that will bring us to get inside our home looking for urgent relaxation. The polyphony in the music is all the opposite, for sure, Inside the same melody we go listening to, the sounds don’t own an equal tone but all set up as good as the ear feels caressed as well as it’s able to raise the alert levels of the brain not in distress but working the same, or bet...

Neighbors complained to the Municipality and the Prosecution but the claim seems to be frozen.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   SULLANA, Peru— The city seems to suffer from nyctophobia , the pathologic ffear to remain silent. It’s one of few cities where there are neighbors who decided to fight the noise. A hundred of them has opened a Facebook group to agree legal actions purposed to turn down the urban sound. At Barrio Sur, Martin Herrera Reto is like a coordinator and manager. He lives on Hipolito Unanué Street, that begins at the gate of Luciano Castillo Colonna Sub-Regional Direction of Health, then runs in parallel to Chira River . He has got a view to the valley from his backyard: “we hear the music like it were right here, sometimes it lasts through overnight,” Near his home, between Arica and Paita Streets and next to the stair going down Huamán de los Heros Pier, an apparently informal gymnasium works noisily. “It begins at 7:30 in the morning, then i...

The first month of the worst environmental disaster in Peruvian shores history – the most media-trendy, at least.     VENTANILLA, Peru – On Saturday, January 15 th , 2022, while the Pacific Ocean was in alert due to a tsunami caused by the blast and collapse of a volcano in Tonga Islands , Italy’s Mare Doricum petroleum ship downloaded Brazilian crude to La Pampilla Refinery , operated by spain’s Repsol corporation .   Around 17:10 PET (2310 GMT) , it was notified the downloading hoses broke. Initially, all seemed to be a 26.9-feet stain, or the equivalent to a 1.6-feet-side square, and 0.16 barrels, according to Repsol’s preliminary information. For January 23 rd , Peru’s environment Ministry estimated that 11,900 petroleum barrels spilled in the sea. One petroleum barrel equals 42 U.S. gallons or 159 liters.   The next day, Sunday 16 th , who attended Cavero Beach mid-morning found the water inked in black, a heavy smell. For Wednesday 19th, Repso...

This is the script prepared to be spoken before AgroRed Norte Summit in Piura City, Peru, on July 17 th , 2015.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo   March 2013, the first and last time I was in an AgroRed Norte Summit. It was an important proffessional milestone to me. I thank the organization about that. A day later I presented before you, a History Latin America network’s crew picked me up early in Sullana City for working almost all that day. They wanted to record our testimonial because of a story we published on FACTORTIERRA  on 2008 .   In July 2013, landscapes of Malingas , a rural community in Tambograndé District , Peru, entered 40 million homes along Latin America and they hold on until now by reprises.   On that first hearing before AgroRed Norte Summit, I went to request you for supporting the need to create scientific spreaders’ nests from schools. I do not know if the idea was welcomed and set up –at least, I was not summoned to o...