Fellows & Editors
Ariel Schwartz
- Trip:
- Fellows 2015
- Affiliation:
- Business Insider
- Country:
- Brazil
- Year:
- 2015
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Ariel Schwartz is the deputy editor for innovation at Tech Insider, Business Insider's technology vertical. Perviously, she was a senior editor at Co.Exist, Fast Company magazine's website focusing on world-changing ideas and innovation. She was also the technology editor at Inhabitat, a green design site, as well as the site editor at Cleantechnica.com. She has contributed to SF Weekly, Popular Science, Greenbiz, NBC Bay Area, Modern Farmer, and GOOD Magazine, where she wrote a weekly online column about energy innovation. Schwartz is the recipient of a Verge 25 Award for her work as “a leading voice on the promise of technology in the service of cities and sustainability.” Prior to her career as a writer, she worked at No Starch Press, a small San Francisco-based publishing company. She graduated from Vassar College with a bachelor's degree in history.
Schwartz was awarded a prior fellowship with IRP, reporting from Brazil in 2014.
Stories
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This Abandoned Island Near Rio Could Be in Store for a Miraculous Comeback
Ilha Seca is the closest island to Rio, but humans have barely touched it in the last half century, leaving it overgrown with weeds and dotted with crumbling buildings. Now...
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Large Alligator-Like Creatures Are Living Around Rio’s Olympic Sites
In Florida, you don't have to look too far to find alligators. And in Rio de Janeiro, you only have to poke your head into one of the city'...
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Inside the Desolate Rio Neighborhood Being Bulldozed for the Olympics
At first, you don't see it. Hidden near the gargantuan Athletes Village, the gleaming media center, and under-construction Olympic stadiums is a ramshackle set of homes. Before...
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These Brazilians Are Part of a Program That Could Change the Lives of Transgender People Everywhere
It's not easy being queer in Brazil, especially for transgender and "travesti" (basically, a genderqueer person who uses female pronouns) residents. Members of these populations are marginalized in society,...
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In One of the Hardest Places There Is to Be Transgender, This Program Could Start a Revolution
Aline is an attractive 37 year old, with tan skin, arched eyebrows, and an enviable head of thick black hair. When I meet her at an adult education school in S...
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What Happens When World Cup Tourists Flood Rio’s Favelas Looking for Cheap Rooms?
This past April, I found myself on my first ever motorcycle ride, speeding on the back of a motorcycle taxi headed to the top of Rocinha, Rio De Janeiro's largest ...;
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In the Amazon, It Turns Out You Can Make Money Without Destroying the Forest
{image-1} Deforestation is a big problem in Brazil, which contains the majority of the Amazon rainforest. But it's getting better. A paper published this week in Science ...;
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A Look Inside Rio De Janeiro’s Oldest Favela, Threatened by Gentrification and the 2016 Olympics
Brazil's favelas are translated as "slums" in English, but they're really more comparable to U.S. public housing. Favelas are more than just a place to live--they're often tight-knit...
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How Big Ag Companies Are Squeezing Brazil’s Family Farmers
Celia is an important farmer in Cumaru, a small town in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco. An advocate of the agroforestry style of farming--a pesticide-free farming system that imitates nature'...
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The Struggle to Bring Female Condoms to the Masses Isn’t Just About Design Innovation
The female condom is more difficult to use than the male condom, it's expensive, women often complain that it feels uncomfortable at first, and perhaps most frustratingly, it's...
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Inside the Mansion Where Brazil’s Startups Get Incubated
{image-1} The city of Sao Paulo doesn't have an entrepreneurial culture like that which exists in San Francisco and New York. But the Startup Mansion, located next to an art...
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September 01, 2015 | by Schwartz, Ariel
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