The Power of Italy’s Inland Areas in the Integral Ecological Transition
In the Italian context, and even more so with elections approaching, talking about politics inevitably tends to harden positions, create distance and divide people. Tired of superficial politics, of selfishness and individualism, Italians are showing — both through their behaviour and through the data — just how little trust they place in this kind of […]
Live to Tell the Story, or Tell It Only If You Have Truly Lived It?
Stories of Other Lives and Foodtech. In these turbulent days, while the mass return from summer holidays seems to provide the only one-dimensional backdrop to current political propaganda, the third edition of the learning experience organized by FAO and the Future Food Institute has just concluded in Pollica (SA), focusing on Integral Ecological Regeneration and […]
Policy Mix for the Ecological Transition in Rural Areas: Educating for Intersectionality and Complexity
The current economic, political and social landscape is defined by one dominant characteristic: uncertainty. An uncertainty fuelled by constant and rapid environmental transformation, which is shaking both local and global economies as well as the social fabric, already severely tested by the health crisis and major geopolitical imbalances. This uncertainty requires integrated and systemic policies […]
Our Mare Nostrum Is Made of Plastic. What Can We Young People Do?
Despite its relatively small size, the Mediterranean Sea is home to one of the richest and most distinctive marine biodiversity ecosystems in the world. Many countries border the Mediterranean, including our beloved Italian peninsula, which boasts some of the most admired coastlines anywhere in the world. And yet, according to a recent analysis conducted across […]
Trame Mediterranee Blue Edition Kick-Off
Covering two-thirds of the Planet’s surface, seas and oceans are the true blue gold of our communities, natural ecosystems and economies, both local and global. Celebrating the fourteenth World Oceans Day today is a way to draw attention to the need to care for fragile marine ecosystems, but above all to bring people around the […]
(R)Estate with laFeltrinelli
laFeltrinelli in Acciaroli, the new bookstore inaugurated in early May, offers residents and seasonal visitors a cultural gathering place and an editorial selection that reflects the local area while opening itself to the Mediterranean. It now presents (R)Estate con laFeltrinelli, a summer event series running from June 24 to August 25, every Thursday at aperitivo […]
RegenerAction 2022: Agri-Culture as a Driver of Integral Ecological Development
The challenge: preventing cultural desertification Culture, understood as the set of values, symbols, concepts, beliefs, ideas, customs and traditions that are passed down, acquired and widely shared by a given people, is the foundation upon which the individual and collective identity of a society is shaped. And yet, in the recent race toward progress and […]
RegenerAction 2022: Starting Again from Conviviality and the Table to Regenerate Society and the Environment
Restoring conviviality to its true value: everyday moments of individual and collective regeneration If each of us can vote with our forks, if every individual, through daily habits and food choices, can bring us closer to development models that are not only sustainable but regenerative, then mealtimes and conviviality must return to playing a central […]
RegenerAction 2022: The Potential of Care and Beauty
Returning to the time of mindful presence The economic, social and environmental scenario we are currently experiencing highlights the need to redesign existing production and consumption models in order to achieve more sustainable development. Linear economic models based on the mantra “take-make-dispose” have proven not only less economically efficient than expected, but also damaging to […]
RegenerAction 2022: The European Year of Youth
School dropout, unemployment and stagnation: the challenges facing young people School dropout and unemployment are among the greatest challenges that Europe, and Italy in particular, must address when it comes to younger generations. In 2020, according to ISTAT, 543,000 young people in Italy aged between 18 and 24 left education after completing lower secondary school. […]
