11/19/2020 5:19 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 11/19/2020 5:19 PM
The article “Six months after the blackout, the history of the town that was saved by the peanut shell” published in
Clarín
and co-written by
María Belén Etchenique, Sol Tiscornia, Agustina Heb and Aldana Sanders
won the Accenture Prize for Journalism in the Innovation and Economy category.
The 2020 Edition of this Award, had the valuable collaboration of an Advisory Council formed by members of FOPEA, Universidad de San Andrés and Fundación Ortega y Gasset.
“Last June 16, Argentina was prepared for something else.
Four provinces were to elect a governor and families would gather to celebrate Father's Day.
But when it had not yet dawned, a gigantic blackout, the largest in all of Argentine history, changed plans.
Shortly after seven in the morning, the consequences began to be experienced in almost the entire country and a good part of the neighboring nations, such as Uruguay, Brazil and Paraguay ”.
Thus begins the research that reveals the way in which a human group can innovate by reusing a peanut discard.
Ticino is a Cordovan town of 3,000 inhabitants.
He was born and raised on the dynamics of the freight rail.
Today it lives largely off peanut production.
Specifically, it tells the story of Ticino, a Cordovan town of 3,000 inhabitants that that day of the great blackout was the only place in Argentina that
did not run out of power
.
The note reveals that Córdoba, the second most populated province, is one of the largest exporters of peeled peanuts in the world.
The average sale is 25 tons every 20 minutes.
And in Ticino they make the most of the product, even when it is discarded.
The main company in the town,
Lorenzati Ruetsch SA,
built a plant to generate energy from the shell.
It's called
Generación Ticino Biomasa (GTB)
and it produces energy to power 8,000 homes every day, 24 hours a day.
That energy made them famous and made Ticino residents hardly aware of what was happening that Father's Day in Argentina.
What years ago was considered waste, was key to maintaining electricity service to the Cordovan town of Ticino.
The article, which integrates all the narrative options of current journalism -
video, text, pieces of infographics and photos
- was part of a series of publications that are the result of the Solutions Journalism Grant from the Gabo Foundation and the Solutions Journalism Network thanks to the support of the Tinker Foundation, institutions that promote the use of solutions journalism in Latin America.
For the Accenture award, the Jury was made up of María Eugenia Estenssoro, Miguel Kiguel, Carolina Castro, Gastón Remy and Sergio Kaufman. In this way, Accenture seeks to make the daily work of journalists visible, encourage innovative journalism, promote their critical spirit and stimulate their commitment to good practices.