Lorena Barra’s fixation on the subject of sustainability was born of a negative experience: at some point she worked as an agronomist engineer in Temuco with indigenous women, and taught them to apply to their crops a chemical element known as methyl bromide, highly toxic. “Today I regret a lot,” admits Barra, who in the same period suffered a loss when she was four months pregnant. She attributes it to having been exposed to chemicals. She need…
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Lorena Barra’s fixation on the subject of sustainability was born of a negative experience: at some point she worked as an agronomist engineer in Temuco with indigenous women, and taught them to apply to their crops a chemical element known as methyl bromide, highly toxic. “Today I regret a lot,” admits Barra, who in the same period suffered a loss when she was four months pregnant. She attributes it to having been exposed to chemicals. She need…