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Adopt a public square in the DF

Adopt a public square in the DF The Governo do Distrito Federal programme Adote uma Praça lets residents, companies, and institutions maintain and improve plazas, gardens, roundabouts, and other public spaces through formal cooperation terms. Cultiva Lab itself sits in this programme: civic care making the capital greener and shadier block by block. What you can do - Read the programme overview on the GDF Adote uma Praça page - Download forms and the adopter manual from SEPE documentos - File a request at your Administração Regional or via E-Protocolo for a square you want to steward - Partner with neighbours or a local organisation on native planting, shade trees, water infiltration, lighting, or accessibility How it works SEPE coordinates terms of cooperation after Seduh viability checks. Hundreds of spaces across the DF have been adopted; officials cite more than 200 active spaces citywide. Adoption is voluntary maintenance and improvement, not ownership of public land. Why it matters Shade, permeable ground, and native species are the cheapest climate adaptation a hot inland capital has, and a tended square is where neighbours meet the people they will build the rest with.
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Bridge peripheries through Diálogos com Territórios

Bridge peripheries through Diálogos com Territórios Diálogos com Territórios is SESI Lab's inclusion programme, linking the museum with cultural groups and social organisations from Brasília's peripheries. Residencies combine maker skills, audiovisual work, entrepreneurship, accessibility, and environmental education so communities co-create the science culture instead of only receiving it. What you can do - Watch SESI Lab programming and news for open showcases, oficinas, and calls tied to Diálogos - Follow O SESI Lab educational programmes if your collective works with youth, culture, accessibility, or environmental education - Attend the free public showcases when residencies close (past cycles have produced games, prototypes, publications, and performances) - Connect partner organisations (coverage cites groups such as Jovem de Expressão and Casa Akotirene) through the museum's education team How it works Selected DF groups join mentored residencies with dozens of formation hours, then share results with the public. Cycles are periodic, so treat each closing date as a window into an ongoing programme rather than a single ticketed festival. Why it matters Climate and energy decisions land hardest on the edges of a city. A museum that runs its environmental education with those neighbourhoods, not about them, is how science culture stops being a downtown privilege.
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Host the travelling SESI Lab near you

Host the travelling SESI Lab near you SESI Lab Itinerante packs about ten interactive apparatuses plus a workshop area so the museum experience can travel across the Distrito Federal and other Brazilian states. Schools and local partners can request the kit and add teacher formation shaped to local needs, and everything the museum builds is mirrored in a free digital acervo. What you can do - Explore the travelling exhibits and oficinas in the acervo Itinerante - Ask your school network, municipal culture desk, or SESI regional office how to host a stop - Rebuild the workshop recipes (light badges, motor cars, electric insects, conductive dough) in a classroom, using the published tutorials - Run the free digital exhibition BioOCAnomia Amazônica with students: it puts bioeconomy, biodiversity conservation, and reducing climate change impacts at the centre of Amazonian development How it works The itinerant set carries a slice of the long-duration exhibition and of the educational action programme. Hosts negotiate dates and training with SESI Lab, so there is no permanent street pin because the venue moves. The digital acervo stays open to anyone with a connection, at no cost. Why it matters Inquiry science should not stop at the Rodoviária. A travelling lab plus an open archive lets a distant classroom touch the same phenomena, and reuse the same lesson, as the Esplanada galleries.
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Legislate reverse logistics for public IT

Legislate reverse logistics for public IT The DF wrote Reciclotech into law so unused public computers have a route other than the skip. Decreto 41.859 (2 March 2021) created the programme inside the executive. Lei 7.913 (16 June 2026) turned it into a district-wide system of reverse logistics, disposal, and reconditioning. This is a replicable procurement pattern, not a Solarpunker endorsement of the statutes. What you can do - Read Lei nº 7.913/2026 and Decreto nº 41.859/2021 - If you work in a DF public body, ask your asset desk how idle, unserviceable, or uneconomic IT is offered to the Reciclotech manager (the law gives the manager 30 days to claim it) - If you live in another city, take the pattern to your council: public IT should feed repair workshops and inclusion labs before it feeds a landfill - Follow Reciclotech as a citizen by using PEVs and courses; the statute is the back-office that keeps those full How it works Lei 7.913 lets direct, autonomous, and foundational DF bodies notify the programme manager of IT and electroelectronics classed as uneconomic to recover, unserviceable, or idle. The programme prioritises correct disposal of public IT and free public access to digital technology. The executive still has to regulate execution, partnerships, and which body is the manager. Solarpunker does not organise Reciclotech and does not lobby for the law. Why it matters A city that donates its own leftover towers to the same workshops that train residents is practising circular procurement, not only asking households to be virtuous.
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Learn computer repair from discarded electronics

Learn computer repair from discarded electronics Reciclotech is not only a drop-off scheme. At the Programando o Futuro headquarters in Gama, donated e-waste is the teaching material for free, fully practical courses in basic IT, computer maintenance, and robotics. This is vocational training in a workshop, not a same-day museum oficina. What you can do - Read how the courses run on SECTI Reciclotech and Programando o Futuro: Reciclotech - Enrol through programandoofuturo.org.br/cursos or in person at QI 06 Lotes 20/80, Setor de Indústria, Gama Leste - Bring copies of ID and proof of address (a guardian's documents if you are under 18) - Arrive as a young person or adult: the official public is jovens e adultos, from first job through requalification How it works Programando o Futuro executes Reciclotech under Termo de Colaboração nº 05/2023 with SECTI-DF and FAP-DF (signed 29 December 2023). Classes are 100% practical and in person at the Gama industrial-sector site. The programme is in its third edition. Do not treat a single news vacancy round as the current intake: check the executor's course page for open groups. Why it matters A discarded laptop that teaches someone to rebuild the next one is worth more than a sermon about waste. Skills stay in the neighbourhood; machines stay in use.
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Run a school e-waste gincana

Run a school e-waste gincana Reciclotech takes collection into schools and streets: gincanas for electronic drop-off, community caravanas, and talks on environmental education. A class that competes to fill a PEV is practising reverse logistics, not sitting through a slide deck. What you can do - Ask your school or regional administration to host a Reciclotech gincana; the pattern is described on Programando o Futuro: Reciclotech - Pair the contest with a visit to a nearby PEV so students know where the box lives after the event - Invite a Reciclotech talk or caravana into a community space, then keep a standing drop-off rather than a one-day pile - Teachers: use the gincana as a replicable template (teams, weighed haul, repair story), not as a dated fixture on this page How it works The executor lists palestras, caravanas in communities, and gincanas for electronics drop-off as standing education actions. No public calendar of the next school contest was on the pages, so treat this as a pattern to request, not as a ticketed date. Sema-DF coverage of the Abree agreement also mentions school gincanas alongside drive-thru days. Why it matters A school that weighs its leftover phones together learns that waste is a team sport. The next PEV in that RA is easier to keep full.
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Bring a drive-thru collection day to your region

Bring a drive-thru collection day to your region Reciclotech also pitches tents in the Regiões Administrativas so a resident can drop electronics without leaving the car. The format is a neighbourhood collection day, not a permanent shop. What you can do - Watch SECTI Reciclotech and Programando o Futuro channels for the next drive-thru tent in your RA - Ask your Administração Regional to request a date: the official description is tents at strategic points so the public can discard e-waste without getting out - Bring only Reciclotech-accepted electronics (IT, phones, cables, batteries, small appliances as listed on the programme pages); leave cooking oil and tyres for the SLU map - If no tent is scheduled, use a standing PEV this week instead of waiting How it works The Reciclotech overview describes drive-thru actions alongside PEVs as the two private-source collection routes. Sema-DF / Abree coverage likewise mentions drive-thru days. No standing calendar was published on the official pages, so this is a recurring pattern to request, not a pinned date. Confirm the RA and accepted materials on the organiser's announcement before you queue. Why it matters A tent in the parking lot meets people where they already move. Collection that fits a Saturday errand will outperform a lecture about what should not go in the grey bin.
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Train at the Reciclotech centre in Gama

Train at the Reciclotech centre in Gama The executor Programando o Futuro runs Reciclotech's practical courses from its headquarters in the Gama industrial sector. Discarded electronics arriving from PEVs become the benches for basic IT, computer maintenance, and robotics. How it works Enrol on programandoofuturo.org.br/cursos or in person. Classes are 100% practical and on site. Bring ID and proof of address. Confirm open groups on the executor's page before travelling; this is not a drop-in museum workshop. When & where - QI 06 Lotes 20/80, Setor de Indústria, Gama Leste, Brasília-DF, CEP 72.445-060 - Approximate pin on Sind QI 6 in the Gama industrial sector - Recurring: in-person courses; check dates with Programando o Futuro: Reciclotech Why it matters The city's leftover machines and the city's next technicians can share one industrial lot. Source & repost Shared here so you can get inspired or find action already happening near you. Solarpunker does not own or organise it. Source: SECTI-DF: Reciclotech · Programando o Futuro: Reciclotech. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Gama (30464020096).jpg) (CC BY-SA 2.0, vcheregati).
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