"The change was gradual. Step by step we were introducing the good practices when the MEDSEA Foundation contacted us. We grabbed the chance. The result was amazing, both for the enthusiastic participation of our customers as for the volume of plastic we’ve been able to eliminate. Before we filled two large bins every day.
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"You perceive yourself as infinitely small, the scenario around is majestic and fragile. You can't but feel responsible, you start thinking insistently on how to protect it". Around Gianluca Casagrande, professor of geography at the European University of Rome, it lays out the exhibition "82 ° 07'Nord- on a sailing boat on the edge of the Pole, following of the airship Italy"
The data speak to us: we're getting more and more exposed. The cost of damage caused by natural disasters - floods, storms, hurricanes, extreme heat peaks, droughts, fires and landslides - has increased by 20 times in the last 50 years.
The wind pushes away the last fringe of gray clouds on the Mandriola seafront to make room for the wide October light. It is the mistral, tutelary numen of the III Surfing Festival in S. Vero Milis. The carbonari communication of surfers, usually conveyed by mobile phones, takes place between one meeting and another thanks to the convergence guaranteed by the feast.
The Mediterranean coast is exposed to severe threats from climate change: it’s one of the biggest crises humanity has ever faced. Sea level rise, warming waters and changing storm patterns are already having serious impacts on the lives of more than a third of the region’s population – that’s some 180 million people.
"We are imagining the future", explains Inza Fofana, holding a bag full of rubbish. He left three years ago the Ivory Coast at war and arrived in Italy on a boat, after he crawled up half of the African continent. A guest for months in the Libyan hell. Inza, now eighteen, is one of the many students from the Buccari and Marconi institutes of Cagliari who took part in the "#PlasticFreeGC" initiative, promoted by the general command of the Coast Guard Corps on request of the Ministry of the Environment.
Coast Day celebrates its 11th anniversary and raises the challenge for a sustainable use of coastal resources. Created in 2008 to promote the Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) campaign, coordinated by the United Nations PAP/RAC agency and promoted by the European Union's SMAP programme and the World Bank's METAP project, the event aims to raise awareness among the people of the Mediterranean countries of the value of the coasts, their conservation and protection for sustainable development.
Under the blinding light of June it takes a few moments to grasp that the huge pink flamingo topped on the back with half a quintal of waste is not a hallucination. The pedal boat of the Cooperative Golfo degli Angeli approaches the pier of the port of Marina Piccola.
Sardinia like the Sahara? Dispelling false myths helps to better define the threat, which is real and current. It is therefore useful to remember that the phenomenon of desertification does not involve the transformation of "zero kilometer" territories into Saharan expanses with high sand dunes (desertization).
- Actions against climate change: Italy not yet virtuous.
- Oceansafe: a conference on the fragility of the sea in Milan.
- MEDSEA protects biodiversity and pollinators.
- The Italian and Sardinian route of migratory birds.
- IPBES, the loss of biodiversity: 1 million species at risk
- World Tuna Day: "Overfishing and mismanagement threaten its survival"
- Porto Cervo: special meetings at the final evening of the Costa Smeralda Prize
- Costa Smeralda Prize: gran gala in Porto Cervo
- Earth Day: the environment belongs to everyone
- Threatened fishes: what future for migratory species?