Marco Roveda
President
Founded LifeGate in 2000, with the aim of promoting ethical values of respect for humankind and the global ecosystem. This journey began in 1986 with the establishment of Fattoria Scaldasole, which became the first company to use organic farming practices in Italy, and the fourth Italian company in the yoghurt industry. In a short period of time, over 60,000 businesses, inspired by Fattoria Scaldasole’s success, started producing organic goods, allowing Italy, formerly last, to rank first in organic production in Europe. Marco has been living in the province of Como since 1981, in the first passive solar-powered house built in Italy, which he designed. It was the location of Fattoria Scaldasole's commercial farm, and it currently hosts the first solar tracking photovoltaic park in Italy.
In 1997 he was awarded the “Entrepreneur of the Year” prize by the Chamber of Commerce of Milan, in the “Quality of Life” category.
In 2008 he was awarded the “Social Entrepreneur of the Year” prize by the World Economic Forum of Davos, which elects the best social entrepreneurs in thirty countries.
In 2010 he became member of the WorldShift Council on the G20 (WS20).
Publications:
- Perché ce la faremo (Why we'll make it), Ponte alle Grazie, 2004
- In 2008 he is protagonist of the book series I Sostenibili (The Sustainables), Salerno Editrice, with the book-interview L’ecobusiness ci salverà (Will ecobusiness save us?)
- Finding Bliss in the Shift, 2011. An e-book co-written with Ervin Laszlo in collaboration with some of the most important contemporary intellectuals and Nobel Prize winners.
Favorite quote:
“Most people ruin their life in the attempt to improve it” (Marco Roveda)
|Founded LifeGate in 2000, with the aim of promoting ethical values of respect for humankind and the global ecosystem. This journey began in 1986 with the establishment of Fattoria Scaldasole, which became the first company to use organic farming practices in Italy, and the fourth Italian company in the yoghurt industry. In a short period of time, over 60,000 businesses, inspired by Fattoria Scaldasole’s success, started producing organic goods, allowing Italy, formerly last, to rank first in organic production in Europe. Marco has been living in the province of Como since 1981, in the first passive solar-powered house built in Italy, which he designed. It was the location of Fattoria Scaldasole's commercial farm, and it currently hosts the first solar tracking photovoltaic park in Italy.
In 1997 he was awarded the “Entrepreneur of the Year” prize by the Chamber of Commerce of Milan, in the “Quality of Life” category.
In 2008 he was awarded the “Social Entrepreneur of the Year” prize by the World Economic Forum of Davos, which elects the best social entrepreneurs in thirty countries.
In 2010 he became member of the WorldShift Council on the G20 (WS20).
Publications:
- Perché ce la faremo (Why we'll make it), Ponte alle Grazie, 2004
- In 2008 he is protagonist of the book series I Sostenibili (The Sustainables), Salerno Editrice, with the book-interview L’ecobusiness ci salverà (Will ecobusiness save us?)
- Finding Bliss in the Shift, 2011. An e-book co-written with Ervin Laszlo in collaboration with some of the most important contemporary intellectuals and Nobel Prize winners.
Favorite quote:
“Most people ruin their life in the attempt to improve it” (Marco Roveda)
|Founded LifeGate in 2000, with the aim of promoting ethical values of respect for humankind and the global ecosystem. This journey began in 1986 with the establishment of Fattoria Scaldasole, which became the first company to use organic farming practices in Italy, and the fourth Italian company in the yoghurt industry. In a short period of time, over 60,000 businesses, inspired by Fattoria Scaldasole’s success, started producing organic goods, allowing Italy, formerly last, to rank first in organic production in Europe. Marco has been living in the province of Como since 1981, in the first passive solar-powered house built in Italy, which he designed. It was the location of Fattoria Scaldasole's commercial farm, and it currently hosts the first solar tracking photovoltaic park in Italy.
In 1997 he was awarded the “Entrepreneur of the Year” prize by the Chamber of Commerce of Milan, in the “Quality of Life” category.
In 2008 he was awarded the “Social Entrepreneur of the Year” prize by the World Economic Forum of Davos, which elects the best social entrepreneurs in thirty countries.
In 2010 he became member of the WorldShift Council on the G20 (WS20).
Publications:
- Perché ce la faremo (Why we'll make it), Ponte alle Grazie, 2004
- In 2008 he is protagonist of the book series I Sostenibili (The Sustainables), Salerno Editrice, with the book-interview L’ecobusiness ci salverà (Will ecobusiness save us?)
- Finding Bliss in the Shift, 2011. An e-book co-written with Ervin Laszlo in collaboration with some of the most important contemporary intellectuals and Nobel Prize winners.
Favorite quote:
“Most people ruin their life in the attempt to improve it” (Marco Roveda)
|Founded LifeGate in 2000, with the aim of promoting ethical values of respect for humankind and the global ecosystem. This journey began in 1986 with the establishment of Fattoria Scaldasole, which became the first company to use organic farming practices in Italy, and the fourth Italian company in the yoghurt industry. In a short period of time, over 60,000 businesses, inspired by Fattoria Scaldasole’s success, started producing organic goods, allowing Italy, formerly last, to rank first in organic production in Europe. Marco has been living in the province of Como since 1981, in the first passive solar-powered house built in Italy, which he designed. It was the location of Fattoria Scaldasole's commercial farm, and it currently hosts the first solar tracking photovoltaic park in Italy.
In 1997 he was awarded the “Entrepreneur of the Year” prize by the Chamber of Commerce of Milan, in the “Quality of Life” category.
In 2008 he was awarded the “Social Entrepreneur of the Year” prize by the World Economic Forum of Davos, which elects the best social entrepreneurs in thirty countries.
In 2010 he became member of the WorldShift Council on the G20 (WS20).
Publications:
- Perché ce la faremo (Why we'll make it), Ponte alle Grazie, 2004
- In 2008 he is protagonist of the book series I Sostenibili (The Sustainables), Salerno Editrice, with the book-interview L’ecobusiness ci salverà (Will ecobusiness save us?)
- Finding Bliss in the Shift, 2011. An e-book co-written with Ervin Laszlo in collaboration with some of the most important contemporary intellectuals and Nobel Prize winners.
Favorite quote:
“Most people ruin their life in the attempt to improve it” (Marco Roveda)
Simona Roveda
Editorial Director and Director of Institutional Communication
Born in Milan, moved to Como, entrepreneur with a passion for nature and the environment. In 1986 she cofounded Fattoria Scaldasole – food company promoting the organic market in Italy – and LifeGate – media network and sustainable development advisor – in 2000, of which she is currently the Editorial and Communications Director.
She is Board member and President of LifeGate Media.
In the past few years she has taken part in a number of initiatives in the social and entrepreneurial field. In May 2001 she participated as a speaker in the International Women’s Forum Convention in Rome, event that promotes female leadership through careers, cultures and continents, connecting the world’s most distinguished women, those who have achieved noticeable successes. For two consecutive years she awarded sustainable communication campaigns with Mediakey’s Interactive Key Award, she was president of the jury of the Make a Change observatory’s Social Entrepreneur of the year prize 2011 and on the jury of the international Technovisionarie Prize in 2013.
She received the international Technovisionarie Prize in 2014 in the Women Media category for her ability and intuition in always communicating environmental issues in a positive and proactive way, fomenting faith in change in people’s hearts.
She is part of associations such as:
- Donne e Tecnologie (Women and Technology), association that promotes projects that aim to optimise female talent, fight gender-based stereotypes and discrimination.
- Soroptimist International Italia, organisation that brings together women with high qualifications in the professional field, and operates through projects aimed at advancing the female condition, promoting human rights, acceptance of diversity, development and peace.
Food for thought:
Sustainability is like a tree that lays its roots in an arena of values and continues to grow. It's a process, a strategy that gives flowers, leaves and fruits.
Favorite quote:
“You and me. We are one
Born in Milan, moved to Como, entrepreneur with a passion for nature and the environment. In 1986 she cofounded Fattoria Scaldasole – food company promoting the organic market in Italy – and LifeGate – media network and sustainable development advisor – in 2000, of which she is currently the Editorial and Communications Director.
She is Board member and President of LifeGate Media.
In the past few years she has taken part in a number of initiatives in the social and entrepreneurial field. In May 2001 she participated as a speaker in the International Women’s Forum Convention in Rome, event that promotes female leadership through careers, cultures and continents, connecting the world’s most distinguished women, those who have achieved noticeable successes. For two consecutive years she awarded sustainable communication campaigns with Mediakey’s Interactive Key Award, she was president of the jury of the Make a Change observatory’s Social Entrepreneur of the year prize 2011 and on the jury of the international Technovisionarie Prize in 2013.
She received the international Technovisionarie Prize in 2014 in the Women Media category for her ability and intuition in always communicating environmental issues in a positive and proactive way, fomenting faith in change in people’s hearts.
She is part of associations such as:
- Donne e Tecnologie (Women and Technology), association that promotes projects that aim to optimise female talent, fight gender-based stereotypes and discrimination.
- Soroptimist International Italia, organisation that brings together women with high qualifications in the professional field, and operates through projects aimed at advancing the female condition, promoting human rights, acceptance of diversity, development and peace.
Food for thought:
Sustainability is like a tree that lays its roots in an arena of values and continues to grow. It's a process, a strategy that gives flowers, leaves and fruits.
Favorite quote:
“You and me. We are one
Biagio Cordasco
Counselor
I'm 58, for many years Director of Financial Administration and Control of the LifeGate Group, of which I am also a partner since its founding in 2000. I began my career very young as a factory worker, becoming in a few years' time CEO of an important metallurgical company. Accountant, (university studies interrupted), I am a partner of ASFIM, the Italian guild of specialists in company finance and financial markets, since 1993. I have been working for over 40 years and before arriving at LifeGate I was director of many important companies such as Fattoria Scaldasole, Plasmon and Heinz Italia, maturing significant experience in a variety of industries: metallurgy, food, music. In all companies I have also been "counselor" with the amplest mandates, including human resources and labour relations.
Favourite quote:
“There are many ways of getting there, the best is to set off.” (Ennio Flaiano).
|I'm 58, for many years Director of Financial Administration and Control of the LifeGate Group, of which I am also a partner since its founding in 2000. I began my career very young as a factory worker, becoming in a few years' time CEO of an important metallurgical company. Accountant, (university studies interrupted), I am a partner of ASFIM, the Italian guild of specialists in company finance and financial markets, since 1993. I have been working for over 40 years and before arriving at LifeGate I was director of many important companies such as Fattoria Scaldasole, Plasmon and Heinz Italia, maturing significant experience in a variety of industries: metallurgy, food, music. In all companies I have also been "counselor" with the amplest mandates, including human resources and labour relations.
Favourite quote:
“There are many ways of getting there, the best is to set off.” (Ennio Flaiano).
|I'm 58, for many years Director of Financial Administration and Control of the LifeGate Group, of which I am also a partner since its founding in 2000. I began my career very young as a factory worker, becoming in a few years' time CEO of an important metallurgical company. Accountant, (university studies interrupted), I am a partner of ASFIM, the Italian guild of specialists in company finance and financial markets, since 1993. I have been working for over 40 years and before arriving at LifeGate I was director of many important companies such as Fattoria Scaldasole, Plasmon and Heinz Italia, maturing significant experience in a variety of industries: metallurgy, food, music. In all companies I have also been "counselor" with the amplest mandates, including human resources and labour relations.
Favourite quote:
“There are many ways of getting there, the best is to set off.” (Ennio Flaiano).
|I'm 58, for many years Director of Financial Administration and Control of the LifeGate Group, of which I am also a partner since its founding in 2000. I began my career very young as a factory worker, becoming in a few years' time CEO of an important metallurgical company. Accountant, (university studies interrupted), I am a partner of ASFIM, the Italian guild of specialists in company finance and financial markets, since 1993. I have been working for over 40 years and before arriving at LifeGate I was director of many important companies such as Fattoria Scaldasole, Plasmon and Heinz Italia, maturing significant experience in a variety of industries: metallurgy, food, music. In all companies I have also been "counselor" with the amplest mandates, including human resources and labour relations.
Favourite quote:
“There are many ways of getting there, the best is to set off.” (Ennio Flaiano).
Luigi Zanni
Social Media Manager
Over the years I have cultivated two professional identities. The first one concerns digital communications: I aim to create connections between the online and offline worlds, where people can interact directly with the virtual universe as postulated in postmodern theory. The second one has been molded by qualitative and quantitative research, relationships with creative companies, studies and analyses geared towards Guerrilla Marketing.
Favourite quote:
“Blessed are the forgetful for they get the better even of their blunders” (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Editorial Staff
ETicaNews
ETicaNews is a project of online journalism which is independent and free of advertising, developed by a group of journalists and professional in search of a sustainable social, business and economic information model. A point of reference for technical information on responsible finance, CSR and social enterprises.
|ETicaNews is a project of online journalism which is independent and free of advertising, developed by a group of journalists and professional in search of a sustainable social, business and economic information model. A point of reference for technical information on responsible finance, CSR and social enterprises.
|ETicaNews is a project of online journalism which is independent and free of advertising, developed by a group of journalists and professional in search of a sustainable social, business and economic information model. A point of reference for technical information on responsible finance, CSR and social enterprises.
Jamonline.it
JAM is an Italian rock music magazine dedicated to all those passionate about quality music. Founded in October 1994 out of the ashes of Hi, Folks!, its role models are the Anglo-American Mojo, Uncut and Musicians. JAM is the point of reference for classic rock fans and those musicians who keep this heritage alive.
GenteMotori
For more than forty years GenteMotori has been the magazine that helps drivers best choose and experience cars. Previews, road testing of all the latest innovations, interviews, special trials, investigations and in-depth analysis every month.
Earth Viaggi
Since 1989, Earth Viaggi has been developing an exciting programming of journeys and expeditions. It relies on decades of experience, with a constant presence in the field to monitor services, train local partners, research new itineraries and experiment new solutions. To guarantee safe, comfortable and quality journeys.The Earth and Cultue and Nature adventure began in 1989 with the first trip: "From Lecco, Italy, to Beijing in 50 days". Since this very first experience, the tour operator has embraced the desire to explore, unveil and understand the world. This is the spirit that characterised Earth's first world travels, now a point of reference for those who want to get to know the world, off the beaten track and always attentive to combining the exploration of culture and nature.
|Since 1989, Earth Viaggi has been developing an exciting programming of journeys and expeditions. It relies on decades of experience, with a constant presence in the field to monitor services, train local partners, research new itineraries and experiment new solutions. To guarantee safe, comfortable and quality journeys.The Earth and Cultue and Nature adventure began in 1989 with the first trip: "From Lecco, Italy, to Beijing in 50 days". Since this very first experience, the tour operator has embraced the desire to explore, unveil and understand the world. This is the spirit that characterised Earth's first world travels, now a point of reference for those who want to get to know the world, off the beaten track and always attentive to combining the exploration of culture and nature.
C40 Cities
International network of cities committed to fighting climate change
The C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40) is a network that connects more than 80 of the world’s greatest cities committed to addressing climate change, representing more than 600 million people and one quarter of the global economy.
C40 was founded on the idea that cities can achieve more by working together than acting alone. Now in its 11th year, C40 is focused on tackling climate change and driving urban action that reduces greenhouse gas emissions and climate risks, while increasing the health, wellbeing and economic opportunities of urban citizens. C40’s international staff supports mayors of the world’s megacities to deliver bold, ambitious and transformational action on climate change, through the exchange of ideas, programmes and policies.
The current chair of C40 is Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, while the President of the Board is three-term Mayor of New York City Michael R. Bloomberg.
Rosalaura Romeo
Animal Equality
Animal Equality is an international organization working with society, governments, and companies to end cruelty to farmed animals.
Alberto Affronti
Director of Sales
I hold a degree in Engineering from Milan's Polytechnic University and an MBA from SDA Bocconi, I'm married with three children and was fortunate enough to enter the Energy and Gas sector when the Italian market was first liberalised in 2000, dialoguing with the most energy-intensive industries and proposing solutions in line with a constantly evolving regulatory framework, ones advantageous and competitive for the company themselves. From 2000 to now I've also managed other company areas, such as sales, portfolio management and operations, always trying to give a positive contribution. In December 2015 I obtained the E.G.E. UNI CEI 11339:2009 certification, the completion of a journey of personal interest in themes connected to energy management.
All these years have brought me to believe that the solution in our sector lies in an approach that is integrated with energy consumption, that stems from companies' will to identify strategies based on the sustainability of their business. I came to LifeGate starting on the first of September 2017 to contribute to companies' sustainability, proposing real solutions in the afore-mentioned direction.
FAVOURITE QUOTE: "Nothing grows out of diamonds, out of manure flowers grow" (Fabrizio De Andrè)
Paula Alves da Silva
Columnist – Connect4Climate
Paula Alves da Silva is a journalist, a proud Portuguese from the North, a sun and sea lover and a passionate traveler. Over time Paula had the chance to experience enriching professional and personal opportunities, in different countries and realities. Presently, at Connect4Climate, working as a journalist and social media coordinator, Paula has the great possibility to deal with one of the major issues the world is facing nowadays, climate change. Paula believes that informed people are not only able to change their world, they can also, and especially, change the world. At Connect4Climate information is treated as gold, because we believe information is key to alter mentalities and actions, in order to build a better future. As Nathaniel Branden said, “The first step towards change is awareness.”
Lajal Andreoletti
Social and Environmental Manager
I studied International Relations because of an innate passion for social and environmental issues. I then began working on solidarity and development projects. I’ve always believed in the importance of the “infection” of good ideas, bold projects and sound principles. My work is now to “infect” others: convincing and supporting people and businesses in committing themselves to more sustainable behaviours and actions to safeguard the environment. I live in liquid postmodernism, believe in serendipity, support the green economy and have a cat.
Favorite quote:
“Nothing grows out of diamonds, but out of dung the flowers grow” (Fabrizio De André)
Amaia Arranz
Contributor
Amaia Arranz is business development and partnerships manager for Ruby Cup, a social enterprise distributing healthy, high-quality and eco-friendly menstrual cups. She's passionate about women's rights and currently works in Barcelona and Nairobi. Follow Amaia on Twitter @amaia_15.
Sarine Arslanian
Contributor
I am a researcher and freelance writer passionate about discovering new cultures, fascinating languages, mouth-watering local cuisines, and of course photography. I have had the chance to live in a couple of countries including Belgium, the UK, Indonesia and now Rwanda, and travel extensively around the world. Because travelling to me is all about passing through someone else's reality, I like to experience new places the way the locals do. In addition to writing about travelling, arts and culture, I also write about socio-economic challenges and development.
Favourite quote
"One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things". (Henry Miller)
Chiara Avezzano
Amani for Africa NGO
I was born and grew up in Caserta, Italy, and today Home is the people I love and when I travel is because I go visit someone. The first time I set foot in Kenya I was 19: since then it's one of the places of my life that I go to more regularly. I like to write impulsively, and just to tell true stories. To me, Amani means looking for a meaning.
Favourite quote: “It is on the horizon. When I take two steps, it moves two steps forward. I take ten steps and it is ten steps further away. No matter how far I walk, I will never reach it. What is utopia for? It is for this, for walking." (Eduardo Hughes Galeano)
Benedetta Bacialli
Contributor
I’m a Service Designer born in 1991. I’ve always loved design, biomimesis and sustainability; I like to spend my time wondering around exhibitions. I lived in Shanghai for a year and a half, where I had the opportunity of learning Chinese and plunge myself into this country’s culture and traditions. I’m particularly interested in materials and their processing. I like to cooperate with inter-disciplinary teams, I’m fond of travelling and I’m a sportswoman.
Citazione preferita:
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” (Confucius)
Andrea Barolini
Contributor
I live in France, I love hiking in the mountains, Kapuściński's stories, snow, passionate people, Calvino's descriptions, De Gregori's songs, Britanny, Keynes, chili and the Marmottan Museum. I've been an economics and environmental journalist for ten years, in the hope to throw a stone into the pond: writing to echo the echo is useless. Having said this, my ideal afternoon is that passed cooking for a dinner with my friends.
Favourite quote:
“Nothing grows out of diamonds, but out of dung the flowers grow” (Fabrizio De André)
Edoardo Bassetti
Contributor
I was born in Milan but have spent much of my life going back and forth between Italy and Scotland. After having taught English in the small Rwandan village of Nyamyumba, worked at the Kitezh orphan community in Russia and completed an internship at Reuters in Milan I decided to study anthropology at University College London. Currently, I am an Erasmus programme student in Barcelona. I am a passionate writer and avid story teller, and I revel in the opportunity to have my work reach a wider audience.
Francesco Bassetti
Contributor
Freelance journalist and editor dedicated to environmental issues and outdoor pursuits. I strive to deliver high quality, accurate and compelling content on the topics I hold dear to my heart. In my free time, you will find me in the mountains.
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Favourite quote: “The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way… As a man is, so he sees.” (William Blake)
Rosy Battaglia
I put passion in everything I do and am constantly searching for the best way to keep doing one of the most beautiful jobs in the world. I've always fought for the right to know and inform. Social issues, protecting the environment and health, as well as respecting the law and justice are the pillars of my work. I've lived many lives. Today I'm an investigative journalist, but also a civic one: conscious of the fact that behind data and facts there are always people. I have a son and a dog. I like travelling, but also enjoy social networking. I love walking, being in nature, music, poetry and theatre.
I'm the creator of Cittadini Reattivi (Reactive Citizens), a crowdsourced journalism project on health, the environment and legality. We received a prize from Ahref Foundation in 2013. I'm a FOIA activist and my investigations have been published in Valori, Donna Moderna, Wired Italia, Nòva, Il Sole 24 Ore and La Nuova Ecologia. I've been a DIG awards finalist twice, and won the Premio Eternot 2018, Pioniere del Futuro 2017, Premio al Giornalismo d'Inchiesta – Gruppo dello Zuccherificio 2016 and Reporter per la Terra 2015.
FAVOURITE QUOTE
"Things being as they are doesn't mean this is how they must go on. But, when it comes to rolling up our sleeves and starting to change things, there's a price to pay. And it's then that the vast majority of people prefer to complain, rather than do something" (Giovanni Falcone)
Daniele Bellocchio
I'm a journalist with a degree in History from the University of Milan and have been working on Africa since 2002. I've covered the continent's major crises and wars, and conducted reportages in Central America, the Balkans, Caucasus and Asia too.
My work, published by the most important news media (Italian and non), has been awarded the following prizes: “Fogli di viaggio, Tiziano Terzani 2012”, “Ucsi 2013”, “Giornalisti del Mediterraneo 2014”, “Giuseppe De Carli 2014”, “Tonino Carino 2014”, “Indro Montanelli Prize 2015, special mention”, “Gaspare Barbiellini Amidei 2018”, “Marco Luchetta 2019” and ''Cristiana Matano 2019''.
My ebook “Viaggio al centro della guerra” is published by Mondadori.
Estella Beltramelli
I have a degree in Oriental languages and literature, and I'm passionate about anthropology. Ever since I was taught to, I write not to forget.
I'm drawn to the humanity and resilience of those living in the shadows and on borderlines, even invisible ones.
I root for the environment, awareness and simple words chosen carefully.
Favourite quote
"The real noise is the echo that things have in us" (James Joyce)
Cecilia Bergamasco
Contributor
Marine biologist, eternal lover of the sea and cetaceans. I have been writing and been involved in communication on the themes of energy and the environment for 15 years, with the objective of making the concept of “living sustainably and reducing environmental impact” accessible to all, especially my children. I am editor responsible for content published on Behind Energy. I am particularly interested in renewables and climate change. I also collect boats, shells, stones – anything interesting I find on beaches – and enjoy hiking in the mountains.
Favourite quote
“Being at sea isn’t a school, there are no teachers. There’s the sea and there’s you. The sea doesn’t teach, the sea does, in its own way.” (Erri de Luca)
Alessio Bertallot
Creator and Presenter of "Casa Bertallot"|Creator and Presenter of "Casa Bertallot"
Singer of Aeroplanitaliani, journalist, newspaper collaborator, DJ and radio presenter, Alessio Bertallot is one of the most famous and influential personalities, as well as a unique voice, in Italian radio. His work has been shaped by the search for new sounds and channels to create contact with the public through the use of interactive digital tools. He is one of the few free and unconventional selectors in Italy.
Happy Family BIOcycling
Contributor
La bicicletta sarà il nostro mezzo, inteso sia come veicolo fisico di spostamento, che come oggetto simbolico dell’andare lenti, dell’essenzialità, del basso impatto ambientale e culturale.
Visiteremo aziende biologiche e produttori del ComES che riforniscono anche negozi specializzati in Italia e presteremo servizio all’interno di realtà nazionali facenti parte di WWOOF (World Work Opportunities in Organic Farms), in cambio di ospitalità. Così facendo avremo modo di apprendere tecniche di coltivazione biologica in contesti e condizioni ambientali/culturali differenti.
Visiteremo produttori del Commercio Equo e Solidale certificati e non, per capire da dove provengano i prodotti di importazione venduti in Europa (Italia in particolare) e quali condizioni di lavoro ed ambientali stiano alla base di questi beni.
Approfondiremo la nostra conoscenza sulle realtà di produttori locali che stanno mettendo il propio impegno a favore delle tutela della biodiversità.
Andrea Bollini
Sales Manager
I’ve been working as a head of advertising management for ten years and since the beginning I've been aiming to find an ethical lifestyle respectful of other people and the world in which we live - one that, unfortunately, revolves solely around profit. LifeGate has given me the opportunity providing the market with communications solutions for products, services and businesses focused on improving our daily job and, at the same time, the economic return necessary to foment this virtuous cycle.
In the last few years I’ve explored the digital world, mostly in its active aspects and in those linked to accessibility and user-friendliness. I’m sure that we should examine further those features and the communication opportunities with other companies, which represent a great challenge for us.
Favourite quote:
"Curiosity is the daughter of ignorance and the mother of knowledge, which gives birth to wonder" - Giambattista Vico
|I’ve been working as a head of advertising management for ten years and since the beginning I've been aiming to find an ethical lifestyle respectful of other people and the world in which we live - one that, unfortunately, revolves solely around profit. LifeGate has given me the opportunity providing the market with communications solutions for products, services and businesses focused on improving our daily job and, at the same time, the economic return necessary to foment this virtuous cycle.
In the last few years I’ve explored the digital world, mostly in its active aspects and in those linked to accessibility and user-friendliness. I’m sure that we should examine further those features and the communication opportunities with other companies, which represent a great challenge for us.
Favourite quote:
"Curiosity is the daughter of ignorance and the mother of knowledge, which gives birth to wonder" - Giambattista Vico
Emanuele Bompan
Contributor
I'm a journalist and geographer. I travel to write. My focus areas are climate change, energy and the green economy. American politics is my favourite sport, I covered Obama's first term from Washington. I've written books including “Bioarchitettura” (Hachette editions) ; “Il mondo dopo Parigi. L’accordo sul clima visto dall’Italia: prospettive, criticità e opportunità” (Ambiente editions) and “Che cosa è l’economia circolare” (Ambiente editions). I'm now working on a new book on water grabbing. I won the European Journalism Center Grant four times, as well as the Middlebury Environmental Journalism Fellowship (once) and was nominated as Earth Journalist (Giornalista per la Terra) 2015. My religion? has two wheels.
Favourite quote
One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge. (Michel Foucault)
Maurizio Bongioanni
Contributor
Freelance journalist, born in 1985. I have a degree in Communication Sciences, have worked with a number of news outlets at the local, national and international level. I am sensitive to environmental sustainability themes and have authored documentaries on the topic of soil consumption. I am an activist, my "cause" are landscapes, as well as a passionate musician.
Favourite quote: "How do I explain to my wife that when I look out the window I'm working? (Joseph Conrad)
Chiara Boracchi
Digital Editor
I first joined LifeGate's editorial staff in 2006, after graduating in Archaelogy and completing a Master's in Environmental Communication. Since then I have had excellent teachers, found wonderful friends and written about ecology and environmental safeguard, which is what I am really interested in.
I take notes by hand and have a lot of notebooks and post-it notes to write down dreams and ideas. I buy organic vegetables and detergents on tap and am a source of concern for my friends and relatives, as I try to convince them to do the same every time they come shopping with me. I love herbalist shops' scent, silence in museums, I practise Aikido and read all kinds of things.
I write about eco-friendly lifestyles, natural health and events.
Favourite quote:
"Fall seven times, get up eight" (Japanese proverb)
|I first joined LifeGate's editorial staff in 2006, after graduating in Archaelogy and completing a Master's in Environmental Communication. Since then I have had excellent teachers, found wonderful friends and written about ecology and environmental safeguard, which is what I am really interested in.
I take notes by hand and have a lot of notebooks and post-it notes to write down dreams and ideas. I buy organic vegetables and detergents on tap and am a source of concern for my friends and relatives, as I try to convince them to do the same every time they come shopping with me. I love herbalist shops' scent, silence in museums, I practise Aikido and read all kinds of things.
I write about eco-friendly lifestyles, natural health and events.
Favourite quote:
"Fall seven times, get up eight" (Japanese proverb)
Patrick Bracelli
Translator
I grew up in the Italian Alps, where I developed a great love for nature and the outdoors by going for long mountain walks and revelling in the stunning scenery. After high school, I moved to the UK to study Politics and East European Studies at University College London. Here I became passionate about sociology and sustainable development, and I feel very fortunate to be translating articles for LifeGate on topics about which I care deeply. Translation is also a great outlet for my love of language and writing, and the process makes me feel connected to the different cultural environment that each language is an expression of.
Favourite quote: "There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest." (Elie Wiesel)
Lorenzo Brenna
Web Content Writer
Since I was child, I have had a vocation for naturalism. I would spend hours watching kestrels drawing circles in the sky or frogs swimming under water. Throughout the years, I have managed to combine this passion with another hobby: writing. When I'm not tackling the green economy and corporate sustainability, I try to use writing to give voice to the most vulnerable creatures.
Favourite quote:
"Know all the men by these presents, that I, Henri Thoreau, do not wish to be regarded as a member of any incorporated society which I have not joined" (Henry David Thoreau)
Rudi Bressa
Contributor
I am a professional environmental journalist, and being a naturalist is my hobby and academic training. I write to tell what fascinates me most and am hopeful to break stubborn apathy towards the planet. Every day, I find a way to reduce my ecological footprint and consumption without giving up the 21st century lifestyle.
I always bring some fruit with me, as well as a flask of water, always filled with tap water, and my smartphone.
Favourite quote:
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change" (Charles Darwin)
|I am a professional environmental journalist, and being a naturalist is my hobby and academic training. I write to tell what fascinates me most and am hopeful to break stubborn apathy towards the planet. Every day, I find a way to reduce my ecological footprint and consumption without giving up the 21st century lifestyle.
I always bring some fruit with me, as well as a flask of water, always filled with tap water, and my smartphone.
Favourite quote:
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change" (Charles Darwin)
|I am a professional environmental journalist, and being a naturalist is my hobby and academic training. I write to tell what fascinates me most and am hopeful to break stubborn apathy towards the planet. Every day, I find a way to reduce my ecological footprint and consumption without giving up the 21st century lifestyle.
I always bring some fruit with me, as well as a flask of water, always filled with tap water, and my smartphone.
Favourite quote:
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change" (Charles Darwin)
Daniela Brovelli
Creative and Graphics Director
Developing communication projects on sustainability is perfectly in tune with my convictions and lifestyle.
I find it inspiring to be able to spread these values through my daily job.
Since I was young, I’ve always loved colours, flowers, plants, animals (insects included), drawings and being in the open air.
Nothing is as perfect as a natural landscape to me.
When I started university, the confrontation with the metropolis of Milan in the 90s was really “strong” for me, as I grew up in a small country town on the banks of Lake Como. Since then I have been travelling to discover our planet’s ecosystems: forests, seas, mountains…
Even if I work mainly in an office, my job is always a source of interest, curiosity and passion. And it is often fun!
Favourite quote:
"A day without laughter is a day wasted" (Charlie Chaplin)
Sean Brown
Translator
I’ve been fascinated by the beauty and mysteries of the natural world for as long as I can remember. As a child, I was amazed to see my pet tadpoles slowly transform into fully grown frogs, like magic. Whether it's going for a run or hiking up a mountain, I love to be out in nature. Traveling is another great passion of mine, which has let me discover new cultures and explore different countries throughout Asia. I’m currently living in South Korea, hoping to make a difference by translating articles about issues that really matter.
FAVOURITE QUOTE
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” (Lao Tzu)
Laura Brown
Translator
I’ve lived in Italy and the United Kingdom and am currently based in São Paulo, Brazil. I’ve always been really curious about experiencing different cultures. I’m passionate about ethical fashion and design; eager to explore the overlap between the creative industries and sustainability. I love to run and hike in nature; while getting lost in my own thoughts.
Favourite quote: “There’s no path to happiness. Happiness is the path” (Buddha)
Mara Budgen
Head International Editor
I have several passions: discovering new cultures, learning languages, exploring nature, climbing and eating well, of course. I studied in the United Kingdom, have worked in Italy and traveled in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Sometimes I get dizzy because I can’t stay still. I still want to see the world and discover different lifestyles, because diversity is what fascinates me most.
Favourite quote: “Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same” (Michel Foucault)
Philip Budgen
Contributor
“The pen is mightier than the sword,” until you stab yourself with a fork. Writing and eating go hand in hand together like travelling and meeting new people, all passions I carry with great pleasure. Born in the USA, raised in Italy, studied in the UK and travelled across continents I am a keen citizen of the world, eager to share it with everyone else.
Okada Buluma
Koinonia Community NGO
Okada Buluma was born in Kenya, near Lake Victoria in 1982. He coordinates the educational project of NGO Koinonia community for children and young people. He has lived on the street in his past and loves to play.
Veronica Caciagli
President of Italian Climate Network
My mission is to contribute to the transition of a low carbon future and win the climate challenge. I am involved in communications as a blogger, social media manager and environmental journalism: it's imperative that people be informed and that initiatives for climate are communicated competently and effectively. I have worked in diplomacy on environmental and energy themes and have been involved in projects for CO2 emissions reduction. Since 2011, I have been president of the Italian Climate Network, the Italian movement for climate: an NGO launched to spread information on climate issues and ensure Italy a sustainable future.
Favourite quote:
"When the wind of change blows, some build walls, others build windmills" (Chinese proverb)
Maurita Cardone
I'm from Abruzzo, and I always have a pen in my hand. I started off as a journalist when Italy was discovering atypical contracts. I've worked for Il Tempo, Il Sole 24 Ore, La Nuova Ecologia and so many others that I've lost count – but my curiosity has never dwindled. I moved to New York in 2011, and here I continue telling stories and exploring worlds, suffering constantly from FOMO. Passionate about social themes and crazy for contemporary art, the perfect astral alignment, to me, is when the two spheres overlap.
Editor-in-Chief from 2008 to 2018. After freelance job experiences at "Quark" and "Focus" and four books, in 2002 I began working for LifeGate. It was a dream come true: psychology, health, nutrition, the environment, all things which interest me. And music, a lot of great music I had never heard before. The things that make me proud of myself are: having been part of the first news programme in Italy on ecoculture; and my contribution to expand and supervise LifeGate’s website during its ongoing progress towards the future.
Favourite quote: "Decision. This is the best advice" (Immanuel Kant)
Paola Castellani
Contributor
Having studied as a dietician and herbalist, forever an advocate of accompanying good and healthy nutrition to natural remedies, I have been working in the field of phytotherapy for fifteen years.
I have taught nutritional courses aimed at women who want to undertake activities related to nutrition.
During my activity as a herbalist I frequented innumerable courses conducted by important physicians and researchers in the sector.
I received an attendance certificate for the "Psychosomatic" course at the SIMO naturopathy school.
In 2008 I attended, with great satisfaction, an Australian Floratherapy course with Ian Wite, certificate which gave me the opportunity of recommending and divulging through meetings the wonderful functions of these flowers as potent as the content that is their home.
Mother of three children, I have tried to transmit to them the importance of "nourishing" oneself correctly and the ability to find in nature, as much as possible, remedies for ill health.
As well as phytotherapy, I have used omeopathic remedies for them, which I studied for a long time and have learnt to use in targetted ways.
I am currently attending a Counseling course at the ANEB psychology school, which will give me further opportunities to support individuals in their journeys of healing.
Luca Cereda
With a degree in Philosophy, I’ve always been fascinated by the reasons underpinning facts and events. My passion for writing and for telling stories, such as those of people and what goes on in the world, stem from my keenness to listen and observe. As an aspiring journalist I try to absorb everything around me to then share it in the form of written text, as well as narrated using my voice. I privilege giving voice to social issues, to people who often don’t have one.
I love travelling, both through films and books, but especially on foot; returning home with my rucksack full of new encounters and stories to put onto paper with ink.
Favourite quote
“I should not like my writing to spare other people the trouble of thinking. But, if possible, to stimulate someone to thoughts of his own” (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Grazia Chiappa
Administration
Before LifeGate was established I was employed in Fattoria Scaldasole. Now I am working for LifeGate as an administrative employee. I’m grateful to these two companies because I’ve learnt a lot from them, including respect for the environment.
I spend my spare time reading and walking.
Favourite quote:
"Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have" (Oscar Wilde)
|Before LifeGate was established I was employed in Fattoria Scaldasole. Now I am working for LifeGate as an administrative employee. I’m grateful to these two companies because I’ve learnt a lot from them, including respect for the environment.
I spend my spare time reading and walking.
Favourite quote:
"Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have" (Oscar Wilde)
Joslyn Chittilapally
Contributor
I work in the field of Responsible Investment and ESG in India working for India’s first active engagement ESG fund called ECube Investment Advisors. I’ve been working in the field of Responsible Investments for over 10 years in organisations like EIRIS, PIRC, UN PRI in London and Aditya Birla Capital in India, after finishing my MSc Sustainability from University of Leeds, UK. My passions are sustainable finance (and its power to make the world more sustainable), travelling, veganism (and vegan food) and gardening. Through my writings, I hope to highlight the challenges faced in India and how sustainable finance can be the answer, talk about my travels, cover inspiring sustainability stories from all over India, make the case for veganism and environmentalism and write generally about positive things that make my day.
Favorite quote:
“You can’t call yourself an environmentalist if you’re still consuming animals” (James Cameron)
Novella Ciceri
Contributor
My passion is writing. I lived in London for four years and returned to Italy with a bachelor’s degree in International Relations and a suitcase full of memories. I love my country, food, TV series, documentaries, politics, animals and Quentin Tarantino. I’ll read anything, all day, every day. I have 3,000 vinyl records and a boundless passion for the 60s. I live in the countryside with a bearded husband and three cats.
Favourite quote:
Nothing is complicated if observed from the inside. The woods seen from above are an impenetrable smear, but you can get to know them tree by tree. (Stefano Benni)
Francesca Clemente
Translator
I obtained an MA degree in editorial translation from English and Spanish. At university, I’ve come to know and appreciate English and American postmodern literature and contemporary Latin American classics and I’ve rediscovered my passion for writing. I adore music, in particular alternative rock music, and I often go to my favourite artists' concerts. I like cooking, trying exotic dishes, discovering new cities and cultures, taking part in amateur poker tournaments and going out with my friends.
Favourite quote: “In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.” (J.G. Ballard)
Erika Colciago
Business Development Coordinator
My position as Business Development Coordinator reflects the experience gained in designing and managing sustainable development projects for medium and large businesses, as well as the will to achieve something new every day. My training as a designer is expressed in the motto “Why not?”. My actions are characterized by a systemic approach, both to strategic consulting activities, and marketing and communication projects for consumer and B to B markets. I love being inspired: cooking, art, lifestyle, in order to fulfill my curiosity. My radar is always on for detecting the latest news in the fields of design and sustainability.
Favorite quote:
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” (Marcel Proust)
Roberto Colombo
IT Manager
I have been working for LifeGate since forever! I knew since the beginning that I could turn my passion into a career. I read the non-compiled source code to not weigh the server down and if anybody prints in colour I cut off his/her hands. I’m addicted to cinnamon.
Favourite quote:
"Leave this world a little better than you found it" (Baden-Powell)
Antonella Colombo
Desk
And so, after Fattoria Scaldasole, now I work for LifeGate... I’m the first person who believed in this project... I’ve been working with the Rovedas for over twenty years.
I like to spend my spare time with my friends. I enjoy dancing and singing!
Favourite quote:
"It is a crime not to be in a hurry to be happy when one can be" (Frédéric Beigbeder)
Alberto Colvara
Stakeholder Management Director
Law graduate, lawyer, with a postgraduate specialisation in Business Strategy and Management. I started my professional career as a lawyer. In 1995 I moved to Zimbabwe and South Africa, starting my international experience as General Manager (in the natural stone industry) and then as entrepreneur. Since 2005, back in Italy, I founded and have been managing a Real Estate activity. In 2008 I moved to London, carrying on with legal and fiscal consultancy activities.
As LifeGate’s associate, I was nominated Board Member in 2004 and Stakeholder Management Director in 2014.
Favorite quote:
“It doesn't matter how many times you fall, but how many times you get back up.”
Stefano Corti
General Manager
After a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Business, I studied abroad, first in Rotterdam and, after working for a few years, in Paris. Here I was conferred a Master's degree, the MBA at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, one of the most prestigious international business schools: it was a unique experience.
For many years I worked at Bain & Company, dealing with strategic consulting for Italian and multinational businesses, with significant experience in emerging markets (India, Russia, Turkey, etc.). And then…I arrived at LifeGate.
I’ve been working at LifeGate since 2004 and I supported the development of this "project" with my professional experience, together with that of the entire team: a company aimed at supporting people and businesses in acting responsibly to contribute to the development of a more sustainable planet.
I greatly respect the world we live in: I decided to make this a personal approach and professional commitment.
I love learning, I’m “structurally” curious. In my life and at work I’ve always been attracted to new challenges, ideas and projects. I love travelling to get in touch with different cultures; I travel as soon as I can.
Favorite quote:
“Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. We combine theory and practice: now nothing works and we don't know why!” (Albert Einstein)
|After a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Business, I studied abroad, first in Rotterdam and, after working for a few years, in Paris. Here I was conferred a Master's degree, the MBA at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, one of the most prestigious international business schools: it was a unique experience.
For many years I worked at Bain & Company, dealing with strategic consulting for Italian and multinational businesses, with significant experience in emerging markets (India, Russia, Turkey, etc.). And then…I arrived at LifeGate.
I’ve been working at LifeGate since 2004 and I supported the development of this "project" with my professional experience, together with that of the entire team: a company aimed at supporting people and businesses in acting responsibly to contribute to the development of a more sustainable planet.
I greatly respect the world we live in: I decided to make this a personal approach and professional commitment.
I love learning, I’m “structurally” curious. In my life and at work I’ve always been attracted to new challenges, ideas and projects. I love travelling to get in touch with different cultures; I travel as soon as I can.
Favorite quote:
“Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. We combine theory and practice: now nothing works and we don't know why!” (Albert Einstein)
|After a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Business, I studied abroad, first in Rotterdam and, after working for a few years, in Paris. Here I was conferred a Master's degree, the MBA at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, one of the most prestigious international business schools: it was a unique experience.
For many years I worked at Bain & Company, dealing with strategic consulting for Italian and multinational businesses, with significant experience in emerging markets (India, Russia, Turkey, etc.). And then…I arrived at LifeGate.
I’ve been working at LifeGate since 2004 and I supported the development of this "project" with my professional experience, together with that of the entire team: a company aimed at supporting people and businesses in acting responsibly to contribute to the development of a more sustainable planet.
I greatly respect the world we live in: I decided to make this a personal approach and professional commitment.
I love learning, I’m “structurally” curious. In my life and at work I’ve always been attracted to new challenges, ideas and projects. I love travelling to get in touch with different cultures; I travel as soon as I can.
Favorite quote:
“Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. We combine theory and practice: now nothing works and we don't know why!” (Albert Einstein)
|After a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Business, I studied abroad, first in Rotterdam and, after working for a few years, in Paris. Here I was conferred a Master's degree, the MBA at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, one of the most prestigious international business schools: it was a unique experience.
For many years I worked at Bain & Company, dealing with strategic consulting for Italian and multinational businesses, with significant experience in emerging markets (India, Russia, Turkey, etc.). And then…I arrived at LifeGate.
I’ve been working at LifeGate since 2004 and I supported the development of this "project" with my professional experience, together with that of the entire team: a company aimed at supporting people and businesses in acting responsibly to contribute to the development of a more sustainable planet.
I greatly respect the world we live in: I decided to make this a personal approach and professional commitment.
I love learning, I’m “structurally” curious. In my life and at work I’ve always been attracted to new challenges, ideas and projects. I love travelling to get in touch with different cultures; I travel as soon as I can.
Favorite quote:
“Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. We combine theory and practice: now nothing works and we don't know why!” (Albert Einstein)
Andrea Cutolo
Translator
Being able to act as a bridge between two people who otherwise could never have communicated is why I chose to be a translator. Whether it is in the form of a written document or an oral translation, seeing people understand each other without speaking the same language is something that has always made me smile.
My main task here at LifeGate is to translate articles that span from environmental issues to politics, so that I may help you understand what my Italian colleagues are trying to say.
My love of nature and animals is what makes me feel connected to the world. Individual sports, mainly martial arts, are what make me feel connected to myself. I believe these connections are necessary to be truly happy.
FAVOURITE QUOTE:
“Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.” (Miyamoto Musashi)
Ilaria D’Ambrosi
Contributor
I have an art education, culminating in a degree in Architecture. I am an urbanist. Actually, I am a food urbanist, as I'm devoted to fair and healthy nutrition. I like cooking for people I love. I travel for love, play the violin to feel alive and paint with passion. My favourite colour is green and I mistrust those who don't love animals. Besides writing, I my dream of opening an organic bakery.
Favourite quote:
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” (Marcel Proust)
|I have an art education, culminating in a degree in Architecture. I am an urbanist. Actually, I am a food urbanist, as I'm devoted to fair and healthy nutrition. I like cooking for people I love. I travel for love, play the violin to feel alive and paint with passion. My favourite colour is green and I mistrust those who don't love animals. Besides writing, I my dream of opening an organic bakery.
Favourite quote:
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” (Marcel Proust)
José Graziano da Silva
Columnist
José Graziano da Silva has been the Director-General of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) since 2012. He has worked on food security, and rural and agricultural development for over 30 years. At the helm of the FAO he has emphasised the importance of addressing the connections between social, economic, and environmental factors that can lead to hunger and malnutrition. An agronomist and academic, he previously led the Zero Hunger (Fome Zero) programme in Brazil, that has helped lift millions out of hunger and extreme poverty.
Marcella Danon
Contributor
I'm a journalist, an Ecopsychologist...
...and a poet by vocation. I don't write poems, but encourage poetic views of reality, using written, spoken and dreamed words, as well as pictures, wherever the medium allows me to do so.
I fell in love with Ecopsychology in 1996 and have been promoting it in Italy since 2004. Today, I'm promoting it in Brasil and Greece too.
I was born in Milan, but moved to Brianza to be more in contact with nature. I am responsible for personal evolution coaching in educational and corporate spheres. My coaching takes place... in nice locations.
I would like to take a stroll with Harry Potter and Arien, my two cats who cheer up our home.
Favourite quote:
"We don't need anyone to teach us sorcery, because there is really nothing to learn. What we need is a teacher to convince us that there is incalculable power at our fingertips." (Carlos Castaneda)
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I'm a journalist, an Ecopsychologist...
...and a poet by vocation. I don't write poems, but encourage poetic views of reality, using written, spoken and dreamed words, as well as pictures, wherever the medium allows me to do so.
I fell in love with Ecopsychology in 1996 and have been promoting it in Italy since 2004. Today, I'm promoting it in Brasil and Greece too.
I was born in Milan, but moved to Brianza to be more in contact with nature. I am responsible for personal evolution coaching in educational and corporate spheres. My coaching takes place... in nice locations.
I would like to take a stroll with Harry Potter and Arien, my two cats who cheer up our home.
Favourite quote:
"We don't need anyone to teach us sorcery, because there is really nothing to learn. What we need is a teacher to convince us that there is incalculable power at our fingertips." (Carlos Castaneda)
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I'm a journalist, an Ecopsychologist...
...and a poet by vocation. I don't write poems, but encourage poetic views of reality, using written, spoken and dreamed words, as well as pictures, wherever the medium allows me to do so.
I fell in love with Ecopsychology in 1996 and have been promoting it in Italy since 2004. Today, I'm promoting it in Brasil and Greece too.
I was born in Milan, but moved to Brianza to be more in contact with nature. I am responsible for personal evolution coaching in educational and corporate spheres. My coaching takes place... in nice locations.
I would like to take a stroll with Harry Potter and Arien, my two cats who cheer up our home.
Favourite quote:
"We don't need anyone to teach us sorcery, because there is really nothing to learn. What we need is a teacher to convince us that there is incalculable power at our fingertips." (Carlos Castaneda)
Cecilia Dardana
Contributor
For many years athletics and sport were my daily bread, but then I took my life in a different direction. Today, I'm proud to be a professional journalist. I write about a lot of things – except for finance. I started off with a blog, and now I listen to stories and my job is to tell them. I love travelling alone, reading on a plane – although I try to walk wherever possible – and overhearing snippets of other people's conversations in the street. Generally speaking, I love cities and the people who give me something to write about.
FAVOURITE QUOTE
"Seasons change, conditions change, but there's something that stays unaltered. That is, the set of values that give meaning to life and the human condition: a person's dignity, the common good, respect for others, a sense of responsibility towards those around us. This set of values is what culture helps us find and make ours" (Sergio Mattarella)
Samir de Chadarevian
Columnist
Entrepreneur, advisor, and expert on social innovation, impact investing, systemic approach, SDGs (United Nations Sustainable Development Goals), and ethics as resources for a sustainable development.
I work together with companies, family offices, foundations, social enterprises, start-ups, profit and non-profit organisations. I’m also Research Director of “Investing for Global Impact”, a global research on philanthropy and impact investing of the Financial Times, as well as coordinator of Carovana Etica, an initiative of the Cusani Foundation.
Alessia de Luca Tupputi
Contributor
I've been a journalist since 2005, I write about Africa and the Middle East. If I'm not in Rome look for me in the southern or eastern Mediterranean, lost in a suq or under the shade of a minaret. On Twitter I am @mokarabika.
Favourite quote: "Ex africa semper aliquid novi – There is always something new coming out of Africa" (Pliny the Elder)
Giacomo De Poli
LifeGate and Sound Art Director
I hold a bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies and a post-graduate degree in Musical Communication for the record industry and radio.
I was radio writer for The Bridge before I began to work for LifeGate, where I started off as music programmer. I’m now in charge of LifeGate’s musical world.
Favourite quote:
"97X, BAM! The future of rock and roll" (Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man)
Simona Denise Deiana
Contributor
When I'm not holding a pen, I'm backpacking, looking for special places that I love telling about. I walk as far as I can, because it's the only way to be completely immersed in my surroundings. I travel, take pictures and have learned a lot in a state of happy solitude. Writing allows me to extend my journeys and add new stops, whilst taking photographs captures unforgettable moments.
Favourite quote:
"Leaving means changing lifestyle, for a more or less long period of time." ("In Praise of Walking", David Le Breton)
|When I'm not holding a pen, I'm backpacking, looking for special places that I love telling about. I walk as far as I can, because it's the only way to be completely immersed in my surroundings. I travel, take pictures and have learned a lot in a state of happy solitude. Writing allows me to extend my journeys and add new stops, whilst taking photographs captures unforgettable moments.
Favourite quote:
"Leaving means changing lifestyle, for a more or less long period of time." ("In Praise of Walking", David Le Breton)
|When I'm not holding a pen, I'm backpacking, looking for special places that I love telling about. I walk as far as I can, because it's the only way to be completely immersed in my surroundings. I travel, take pictures and have learned a lot in a state of happy solitude. Writing allows me to extend my journeys and add new stops, whilst taking photographs captures unforgettable moments.
Favourite quote:
"Leaving means changing lifestyle, for a more or less long period of time." ("In Praise of Walking", David Le Breton)
Cesare Delaini
Project and Marketing Manager
My international academic experiences have enriched my knowledge and interest in looking beyond social limits and barriers.
I took part in professional projects that shaped my technical and creative skills, allowing me to gain a new global vision of marketing, brand communication and services activities.
From designing aesthetically useful objects to promoting the creation of a more sustainable conscience.
Mistakes made along the way?
Imagine if all mistakes were like that!
Paola Di Pietro
Contributor
My passion for medicinal herbs began when I was 17. I then became fascinated with holism. I live enthusiastically and shared the "pioneers" period with my husband: during the 1980s and 1990s I wrote for Secondo Natura Erbe and was director of Giornale della Natura. Meanwhile, I studied Homeopathy, Ayurveda, Pedagogy, Anthropology...
Scientific dissemination is the biggest challenge of my life. It means being able to convey useful and correct information in a simple and pleasant way, something I never give up doing. I write for magazines such as Repubblica Salute, Astra, Friendly, Starebene and others. I also publish books: "La mia gravidanza", "I primi mesi di vita del bambino", "Come difendere i nostri figli dall'inquinamento" and "Sopravvivere alla scuola di tuo figlio" for RED, "Bimbi in forma senza diete" and "Solo ciccia e brufoli?" for Urra-Feltrinelli, and "L'aggressività degli adolescenti" for Mondadori. In these activities I combine what I have learned during years of study and my life experience as mother of two wonderful girls. I am willing to keep on learning and disseminating scientific knowledge.
Favourite quote:
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas" (George Bernard Shaw)
|My passion for medicinal herbs began when I was 17. I then became fascinated with holism. I live enthusiastically and shared the "pioneers" period with my husband: during the 1980s and 1990s I wrote for Secondo Natura Erbe and was director of Giornale della Natura. Meanwhile, I studied Homeopathy, Ayurveda, Pedagogy, Anthropology...
Scientific dissemination is the biggest challenge of my life. It means being able to convey useful and correct information in a simple and pleasant way, something I never give up doing. I write for magazines such as Repubblica Salute, Astra, Friendly, Starebene and others. I also publish books: "La mia gravidanza", "I primi mesi di vita del bambino", "Come difendere i nostri figli dall'inquinamento" and "Sopravvivere alla scuola di tuo figlio" for RED, "Bimbi in forma senza diete" and "Solo ciccia e brufoli?" for Urra-Feltrinelli, and "L'aggressività degli adolescenti" for Mondadori. In these activities I combine what I have learned during years of study and my life experience as mother of two wonderful girls. I am willing to keep on learning and disseminating scientific knowledge.
Favourite quote:
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas" (George Bernard Shaw)
|My passion for medicinal herbs began when I was 17. I then became fascinated with holism. I live enthusiastically and shared the "pioneers" period with my husband: during the 1980s and 1990s I wrote for Secondo Natura Erbe and was director of Giornale della Natura. Meanwhile, I studied Homeopathy, Ayurveda, Pedagogy, Anthropology...
Scientific dissemination is the biggest challenge of my life. It means being able to convey useful and correct information in a simple and pleasant way, something I never give up doing. I write for magazines such as Repubblica Salute, Astra, Friendly, Starebene and others. I also publish books: "La mia gravidanza", "I primi mesi di vita del bambino", "Come difendere i nostri figli dall'inquinamento" and "Sopravvivere alla scuola di tuo figlio" for RED, "Bimbi in forma senza diete" and "Solo ciccia e brufoli?" for Urra-Feltrinelli, and "L'aggressività degli adolescenti" for Mondadori. In these activities I combine what I have learned during years of study and my life experience as mother of two wonderful girls. I am willing to keep on learning and disseminating scientific knowledge.
Favourite quote:
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas" (George Bernard Shaw)
|My passion for medicinal herbs began when I was 17. I then became fascinated with holism. I live enthusiastically and shared the "pioneers" period with my husband: during the 1980s and 1990s I wrote for Secondo Natura Erbe and was director of Giornale della Natura. Meanwhile, I studied Homeopathy, Ayurveda, Pedagogy, Anthropology...
Scientific dissemination is the biggest challenge of my life. It means being able to convey useful and correct information in a simple and pleasant way, something I never give up doing. I write for magazines such as Repubblica Salute, Astra, Friendly, Starebene and others. I also publish books: "La mia gravidanza", "I primi mesi di vita del bambino", "Come difendere i nostri figli dall'inquinamento" and "Sopravvivere alla scuola di tuo figlio" for RED, "Bimbi in forma senza diete" and "Solo ciccia e brufoli?" for Urra-Feltrinelli, and "L'aggressività degli adolescenti" for Mondadori. In these activities I combine what I have learned during years of study and my life experience as mother of two wonderful girls. I am willing to keep on learning and disseminating scientific knowledge.
Favourite quote:
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas" (George Bernard Shaw)
Frida Doveil
Contributor
Over the course of my profession as an architect who has lent herself to design, materials have always been at the heart of my competencies and passions. A passion that I feed constantly through curiosity, research, travel and the desire to confront myself with the responsibilities, including moral ones, entailed in our relationship with materials. Writing about design is an endeavour that has occupied me for many years, another way to understand them and for them to be understood: I truly believe this a privileged way to learn how to take care of and respect them.
FAVOURITE QUOTE: “Beauty will save the world” (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Michela Dozio
Administration
With a degree in Economics and Business Administration, I first entered the job market in the banking sector, in the Finance and Administration office of an Australian multinational in its start-up phase. As well as being formative, this experience was rich and dense in contents, one that taught me the value and the importance of a person and teamwork in a company, values that I've cherished, brought with me and tried to apply also in successive jobs.
Today I become part of the LifeGate team, a company with which I share values and ideals and in which I very much desire to give my all and my best in work and with people.
I love travelling with my husband discovering the customs, foods and traditions of the place we visit. I like reading and listening to good music. I love great food and good wine, nature and animals, especially dogs.
Favourite quote:
There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live. (Dalai Lama)
Giulia Ficicchia
Contributor
I’ve been told that my unpronounceable surname originates in Sicily, from the area where Camilleri drew inspiration for Montalbano’s Vigata, but I was born in Rome on a Sunday in September. I would bring carry my unaffectionate cat and piles of books to the meadows and mountains. I mainly nurture myself with food, flowers, rocks and light.
Favourite quote: “Think, dear Sir, of the world that you carry inside you, and call this thinking whatever you want to” (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Giovanni Fontana
CFO
In 1991 I graduated in Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Business Management at Cattolica University in Milan. At the time I was also involved in my first work experience in the Milanese office of Swiss Trading company Serica Trudel S.p.A., in which I then progressed to become Head of Administration.
I continued my career as Head of Administration and Financial Affairs in sectoral leaders such as Frangi Spa, Como-based printing company, and Enervit Spa, whose floating on the Stock Exchange in 2008 I contributed to personally.
In all the places I've worked, regardless of the structure, executives or managers, I've always operated in relation to the Ownership, sharing company strategies, but also missions and lifestyles, for example in Enervit and especially here in LifeGate.
My great passion is sport, or rather the sport spirit, in all its forms and manifestations, as a medium and tool to well-being.
FAVOURITE QUOTE: “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard” (Tim Notke)
Elizabeth Fraser
Columnist
Elizabeth is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Oakland Institute, focusing on land, agriculture, and food policy.
Elizabeth holds a Master of Arts in Global Governance from the University of Waterloo’s Balsillie School of International Affairs in Canada, where her research focused on understanding national and international responses to famine, and examined whether commodity exchanges help or hinder agricultural development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Elizabeth was nominated for the Governor General’s Gold Medal for her work at the University of Waterloo.
Before her Master's, Elizabeth was the Partnership Manager at Community Food Centres Canada (Toronto) where she worked with communities across Canada to build alternatives to food banks, ensuring people of all incomes have access to safe, healthy, and affordable food. She also worked with The J. W. McConnell Family Foundation (Montreal), conducting a cross-country scan of community food security initiatives in Canada, which led to the creation of a multi-year granting program on sustainable food systems.
Elizabeth has published articles on topics ranging from genetic engineering to land policy in Ukraine to the role of the informal economy in addressing food security in Sub-Saharan Africa. In her spare time, Elizabeth works with grassroots organizations to end mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex in California.
Vittoria Gallo
Media Network Sales Manager
My passion for sales is far-reaching. Over the years I have developed a great commercial and public relations sense, originally in the tourism industry and then in communications.
I arrived at LifeGate in 2008. I support businesses by creating and planning costumised communication projects, in order to transversely complement content on LifeGate’s platform. Using digital tools, planning unconventional communication campaigns and musical/publishing project sponsorships, the aim is to define business development strategies, towards a sustainability and lifestyle oriented target.
I love travelling and spending time with friends. If I believe in a project, nothing and nobody can stop me. The most interesting experience of my life? Have lived 6 months on a boat!
My favorite sport: scuba diving. My greatest joy: my daughter.
Favorite quote:
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart” (Confucius)
Valentina Gambaro
Contributor
After studying Communications and Marketing, I merged my two greatest passions into one: WRITING about MUSIC. I like telling stories with a happy ending, but only because someone believes in them, observing the world from different points of view, sometimes the most uncomfortable ones, talking about personalites who have contributed (and still contribute) to changing the world through music. My iPod contains several B-sides and... oddities. I love self-production and people who give new life to second-hand objects.
Favourite quotes:
"If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don't, you will find an excuse” (African proverb)
|After studying Communications and Marketing, I merged my two greatest passions into one: WRITING about MUSIC. I like telling stories with a happy ending, but only because someone believes in them, observing the world from different points of view, sometimes the most uncomfortable ones, talking about personalites who have contributed (and still contribute) to changing the world through music. My iPod contains several B-sides and... oddities. I love self-production and people who give new life to second-hand objects.
Favourite quotes:
"If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don't, you will find an excuse” (African proverb)
|After studying Communications and Marketing, I merged my two greatest passions into one: WRITING about MUSIC. I like telling stories with a happy ending, but only because someone believes in them, observing the world from different points of view, sometimes the most uncomfortable ones, talking about personalites who have contributed (and still contribute) to changing the world through music. My iPod contains several B-sides and... oddities. I love self-production and people who give new life to second-hand objects.
Favourite quotes:
"If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don't, you will find an excuse” (African proverb)
Carlotta Garancini
Contributor
The three commandments I follow: eat (well), travel (as much as you can), write (from the heart). I respect nature and don't judge others. I'd love a world with fewer passwords and more chocolate, with less noise and more apple cake. I'm a real sweet tooth! I wish I could spend my Sundays cooking desserts for my family and friends in an old farmhouse on the Tuscan hills (which I don't have). But don't they say that dreams can come true?
Citazione preferita: Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. (Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
Federica Garofalo
Contributor
Lover of life and hard worker. Eclectic and dynamic, assertive. Passionate about people, sustainable lifestyles and out of the box thinking. I like to get lost in my flows of thought and always get things done! Naturally curious, I LOVE experiencing new things, meeting new and open-minded people and getting out of my comfort zone. I’m an architect but not a conventional one. I find discomfort in cities and my soul is in nature. My favorite house would be a tree house and Nature is the master architect.
Favourite quote
"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone" (Neale Donald Walsch)
Luisa Gattone
Contributor
I'm an enthusiast supply chain professional. I love languages, the tech world and sustainability and how each can actually help the other to improve. The first place I look for in a city is the library, in nature it's a river. I always strive to understand how other people interpret what we say with our words and gestures, and I'm very careful to figure out what they are really trying to tell beyond the mere sound of their words.
Favourite quote: "He who is happy is right" (Lev Tolstoj)
Gemma Ghiglia
Action against Hunger
Born in Milan, Italy in 1990, I’ve always showed a great interest in the world. While growing up, I’ve started turning this interest into thoughts and words for the Università Statale di Milano’s newspaper – which I ran from 2012 to 2016 –, VICE Italia, WU Magazine, The Submarine and New Life Radio.
I joined Action against Hunger in 2017, where I’m Head of communications and press office.
In my spare time I ride my bike and collect ugly sunglasses.
Favorite quote:
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Tamara Giovanettoni
Administration
With a degree in Accounting, my first work experiences were with an accounting firm where I truly learned the meaning of "double-entry bookkeeping".
After that I moved to small companies before I decide to leave the mountains that are my home and move to Milan...A radical change for someone like me who grew up in a town where everyone knows each other!
A new challenge which I welcomed with my usual smile, and with the idea that change, though it can be frightening, brings good news! And now LifeGate: a young, dynamic group with which I too want to do my bit.
Favourite quote:
"The best ideas don't come from reason but from a lucid visionary folly" (Erasmus of Rotterdam)
Martina Girola
Web editor
Animals have always been my passion. I grew up watching National Geographic documentaries with my dogs. I love great movies, unknown music and most of all spending time with my Pippi Longstocking. One day I dream of opening a sanctuary for animals in need.
Favourite quote: "Magic exists. It just lives inside the heart of animals. If you’re lucky, sometimes, they’ll share it with you".
Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall, Ph.D., DBE, is founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace.
In July 1960, she began her landmark study of chimpanzee behaviour in what is now Tanzania. Her work at Gombe Stream would become the foundation of future primatological research and redefine the relationship between humans and animals.
In 1977, Dr. Goodall established the Jane Goodall Institute, which continues the Gombe research and is a global leader in the effort to protect chimpanzees and their habitats. The Institute is widely recognised for innovative, community-centred conservation and development programmes in Africa, and Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots, the global environmental and humanitarian youth programme.
Dr. Goodall founded Roots & Shoots with a group of Tanzanian students in 1991. Today, Roots & Shoots connects hundreds of thousands of youth in more than 130 countries who take action to make the world a better place for people, animals and the environment.
Dr. Goodall travels an average 300 days per year, speaking about the threats facing chimpanzees, other environmental crises, and her reasons for hope that humankind will solve the problems it has imposed on the Earth.
Dr. Goodall’s honours include the French Legion of Honour, the Medal of Tanzania, and Japan’s prestigious Kyoto Prize. In 2002, Dr. Goodall was appointed to serve as a United Nations Messenger of Peace and in 2003, she was named a Dame of the British Empire.
For more information about Dr. Goodall and the work of the Jane Goodall Institute, please visit www.janegoodall.org.
Lucia Grenna
Columnist – Connect4Climate
Lucia Grenna is the driving force and leader of Connect4Climate, the unit specializing in Communication for Climate Change at the World Bank Group’s Global Engagement division. She serves as Connect4Climate Program Manager.
Grenna has been with the World Bank since 1998 and she created Connect4Climate in 2011, realizing the overwhelming need for effective and engaging climate change communications. The initiative has since grown into a major global partnership of concerned individuals and committed organizations. She was the task manager for the First World Congress on Communication for Development (WCCD, Rome 2006) that brought together for the first time more than 800 communication professionals engaged in development initiatives, policy- and decision-making, NGOs, community representatives, and academics from around the world to discuss how to mainstream development communication into development policies and practice.
She is author of several articles and publications on communication for development. Prior to joining the World Bank, Grenna worked as a journalist in print and electronic media and produced hundreds of interviews on issues related to economic and social development. She worked in production and marketing of movies and documentaries, and was a team member of the World Bank/CNN Millennial campaign.
Ezio Guaitamacchi
Creator and Presenter of "Rock Files Live"
From Milan and AC Milan fan, traveller and tennis player, Ezio Guaitamacchi fills his time with fun activities: he is a television and radio writer and presenter, a writer, musician, teacher and performer.
If he is not directing JAM, a monthly magazine, or broadcasting on LifeGate Radio, not teaching at the CPM Music Institute or writing an essay on rock or his "Dark Side" page on XL, if he's not on stage or in front of a video camera to talk about "RockFiles", he reads detective novels and rockstar biographies, or watches Fox Crime and History Channel documentaries.
He has already published around 15 essays on rock music, among which 1000 canzoni che ci hanno cambiato la vita (published by Rizzoli), Figli dei fiori figli di Satana (published by Arcana), 100 dischi ideali per capire il rock” (published by Editori Riuniti), Delitti Rock (published by Arcana) and RockFiles – 500 storie che hanno fatto storia (published by Arcana)
After DELITTI ROCK, Ezio Guaitamacchi returns to the crime scene. PSYCHO KILLER – Omicidi in Fa maggiore (published by Ultra) is his first "rock thriller", but it won't be the last...
Favourite quote:
“Rock music didn't save my life but it helped me live better”
Barbara Gugliotta
Zero Impact®: Aftersales and Administration
I have a diploma in Accounting and Commercial Consulting, worked in the field of IT for a few years and arrived at LifeGate subsequently. For 10 years I have been following the project Zero Impact®. I am in charge of contracts, aftersales service, trademark use and protection, carbon credits management and certification. I don’t have an iPod or iPhone…my son, Samuele, is more ahead of the curve than I am!
My favorite movie is The Lake House.
The last book I read is Memoirs of a Geisha.
I am mother of Samuele, a pest, and Angelica, a little girl who is only “angelic” only by name!
I love taking care of my family, cooking with my kids and if I have any spare time left…I love shopping!
Favorite quote:
“If I could bring the world back, I would certainly bring you back” (Negramaro)
Lise Josefsen Hermann
Contributor
I’m a freelance correspondent, born in Denmark but my home is (also) in Latin America among the Andes, the Amazon, the hummingbirds and on my beloved mountain Ilaló (near Quito).
My 3 dogs have 3 nationalities.
I’m a yogi, lover of the flower Mimosa Quitensis, and the silence of the mountains. While rock-climbing or losing myself in the pages of an old book is when (at times) I don’t think about the next stories or words that I’m going to write.
I love to challenge myself, to put myself in situations that I’ve never experienced before. Sometimes the outcome isn’t so wrong.
Favorite Quote:
“There’s a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” (Leonard Cohen)
Iqbal Hossain
I was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1984. In 1994, photographer Dr. Shahidul Alam of the Drik Picture Library gave me a camera to start taking photographs from a child’s point of view. That was the beginning of my work as a photographer.
In 1997, through Drik I met Jeremy Seabrook, who was working on a book on child labour, “Children of other worlds” (Pluto Press, London, 1999). I was his guide for several months in Dhaka, visiting the places where children worked, and translating interviews for him.
In recent years I’ve worked as a freelance photojournalist, including for the New Internationalist, The Daily Star, UNICEF, A&G Italia, UNFPA Bangladesh, Save The Children, Southampton University, Oxfam Bangladesh, Amnesty Italia, Drik Picture Library, Ekushey Television, World View International, Young Asia TV, BRAC, Carers Worldwide UK, CRP Bangladesh, Panos South Asia, Chobi Mela, the Danish Centre for Culture & Development and others.
My principal interest is in documentary photography and reporting.
FAVOURITE QUOTE
"A journey of a thousand miles starts right at your feet" (Chinese proverb)
Andrea Indiano
Contributor
I am a journalist with a passion for cinema and innovations, and I've been living in Los Angeles for a few years. From here, I write about everything, positive or negative, happens in the United States.
Favourite quote: "I think, I didn't build this railroad, I didn't invent anything, I enjoy other people's inventions, and yet I'm happy to be a man because whoever built these things was a man too, and it seems like I have a bit of his talent." (Lucio Mastronardi - Vigevano schoolteacher)
Brigida Isella
Energy: Billing and Customer Service
I work in the Renewable Resources division and I calculate the value of gas and electricity bills. I support customers in managing invoices and contracts. I'm hyperactive and always on the move… Resting bores me. I love sweets... I enjoy baking them and giving them to others.
Favourite quote:
“Remember, there’s always a smile in your pocket...check carefully”
Athanasia Karamerou
Contributor
I'm a Business graduate from the University of Piraeus and I hold an MSc in Sustainability (Business, Environment & Corporate Responsibility) from the University of Leeds. My experience lies in banking, CSR in tourism and sustainability consulting.
I've been a recycling and environment enthusiast for as long as I remember and I love pastry cooking and discovering new recipes for a greener everyday life. I also like discovering new places and people from all over the world. Last but not least, I'm part of a vibrant volunteer community (Atenistas) in Athens and try to be an Athenian citizen in practice.
Favourite quote: “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” (Albert Einstein)
Alexander Kershaw
Contributor
I studied History and Politics in Vancouver, Canada and now study international relations in London, UK. I am really passionate about a number of things, including politics, sports, and learning about what shapes the world we live in. I believe that whilst we all have our own beliefs about how the world works, we should always be looking to learn and keeping an open mind and for me these are two of most important things a person can do. When I am not studying or writing, I like to cheer for my football team Liverpool and improve my limited guitar playing skills.
Favourite quote
"If something is important enough you should try, even if the probable outcome is failure" (Elon Musk)
Natalia Koper
Contributor
I am a postgraduate student at the Institute of the Americas, University College London. I am fascinated by indigenous rights and social movements in Latin America. My favourite country is undoubtedly Mexico, where I spent year and a half studying, travelling, and discovering alternative ways of life. I love trying new cuisines, dancing, and long late night conversations.
Laura La Monaca
Contributor
I graduated in Management of Cultural and Artistic Assets and subsequently worked as musical event and tour planner, to then move on to a publishing house. In 2010, I started dailybreakfast.net to share my greatest passions through pictures: of food, art and travels.
During these years, I have deepened my study and research in photography and food and today, luckily, I'm working as a photographer and freelance food stylist, cooperating with magazines and companies.
People will tell you that most of the time photogenic food is inedible. As a personal choice, I only take pictures of real food. Despite not being very photogenic, it doesn't deserve to be wasted.
Favourite quote:
“Dreams mean work” (Paulo Coelho)
|I graduated in Management of Cultural and Artistic Assets and subsequently worked as musical event and tour planner, to then move on to a publishing house. In 2010, I started dailybreakfast.net to share my greatest passions through pictures: of food, art and travels.
During these years, I have deepened my study and research in photography and food and today, luckily, I'm working as a photographer and freelance food stylist, cooperating with magazines and companies.
People will tell you that most of the time photogenic food is inedible. As a personal choice, I only take pictures of real food. Despite not being very photogenic, it doesn't deserve to be wasted.
Favourite quote:
“Dreams mean work” (Paulo Coelho)
|I graduated in Management of Cultural and Artistic Assets and subsequently worked as musical event and tour planner, to then move on to a publishing house. In 2010, I started dailybreakfast.net to share my greatest passions through pictures: of food, art and travels.
During these years, I have deepened my study and research in photography and food and today, luckily, I'm working as a photographer and freelance food stylist, cooperating with magazines and companies.
People will tell you that most of the time photogenic food is inedible. As a personal choice, I only take pictures of real food. Despite not being very photogenic, it doesn't deserve to be wasted.
Favourite quote:
“Dreams mean work” (Paulo Coelho)
|I graduated in Management of Cultural and Artistic Assets and subsequently worked as musical event and tour planner, to then move on to a publishing house. In 2010, I started dailybreakfast.net to share my greatest passions through pictures: of food, art and travels.
During these years, I have deepened my study and research in photography and food and today, luckily, I'm working as a photographer and freelance food stylist, cooperating with magazines and companies.
People will tell you that most of the time photogenic food is inedible. As a personal choice, I only take pictures of real food. Despite not being very photogenic, it doesn't deserve to be wasted.
Favourite quote:
“Dreams mean work” (Paulo Coelho)
|I graduated in Management of Cultural and Artistic Assets and subsequently worked as musical event and tour planner, to then move on to a publishing house. In 2010, I started dailybreakfast.net to share my greatest passions through pictures: of food, art and travels.
During these years, I have deepened my study and research in photography and food and today, luckily, I'm working as a photographer and freelance food stylist, cooperating with magazines and companies.
People will tell you that most of the time photogenic food is inedible. As a personal choice, I only take pictures of real food. Despite not being very photogenic, it doesn't deserve to be wasted.
Favourite quote:
“Dreams mean work” (Paulo Coelho)
|I graduated in Management of Cultural and Artistic Assets and subsequently worked as musical event and tour planner, to then move on to a publishing house. In 2010, I started dailybreakfast.net to share my greatest passions through pictures: of food, art and travels.
During these years, I have deepened my study and research in photography and food and today, luckily, I'm working as a photographer and freelance food stylist, cooperating with magazines and companies.
People will tell you that most of the time photogenic food is inedible. As a personal choice, I only take pictures of real food. Despite not being very photogenic, it doesn't deserve to be wasted.
Favourite quote:
“Dreams mean work” (Paulo Coelho)
|I graduated in Management of Cultural and Artistic Assets and subsequently worked as musical event and tour planner, to then move on to a publishing house. In 2010, I started dailybreakfast.net to share my greatest passions through pictures: of food, art and travels.
During these years, I have deepened my study and research in photography and food and today, luckily, I'm working as a photographer and freelance food stylist, cooperating with magazines and companies.
People will tell you that most of the time photogenic food is inedible. As a personal choice, I only take pictures of real food. Despite not being very photogenic, it doesn't deserve to be wasted.
Favourite quote:
“Dreams mean work” (Paulo Coelho)
Alessio Laguda
Director of Adminsitration and Finance
I hold a degree in Accounting and an MSc in Business Administration from Bocconi University, Milan. I've been passionate about economics since I was young, when I first entered the world of work in the family business. In 2006, I left Italy to explore the world, first on an Erasmus programme in Maastricht and then in France, England and the US thanks to General Electric's Financial Management Program. Back in Italy I became Finance Manager for General Electric, working with southern European countries in the context of maintenance contracts for gas turbines and, subsequently, Commercial Manager for western Europe. My last role before arriving at LifeGate was as a consultant for Bain & Company in the Utilities and Aeronautics sectors.
After these experiences I have come to LifeGate to assist the company in the extraordinary challenge of helping businesses and people become more conscientious and adopt a more sustainable approach to personal and company life.
Favourite quote:
“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift” (Steve Prefontaine)
|I hold a degree in Accounting and an MSc in Business Administration from Bocconi University, Milan. I've been passionate about economics since I was young, when I first entered the world of work in the family business. In 2006, I left Italy to explore the world, first on an Erasmus programme in Maastricht and then in France, England and the US thanks to General Electric's Financial Management Program. Back in Italy I became Finance Manager for General Electric, working with southern European countries in the context of maintenance contracts for gas turbines and, subsequently, Commercial Manager for western Europe. My last role before arriving at LifeGate was as a consultant for Bain & Company in the Utilities and Aeronautics sectors.
After these experiences I have come to LifeGate to assist the company in the extraordinary challenge of helping businesses and people become more conscientious and adopt a more sustainable approach to personal and company life.
Favourite quote:
“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift” (Steve Prefontaine)
Francesca Lancini
Contributor
For fifteen years, which went by rather quickly, I've been trying to narrate the world and its inhabitants. I've known the frenetic world of news, the exploration offered by reportage journalism and the complexity of investigative journalism. Asia was my gym. I left it to embark on other paths, though I often return. I'm especially interested in civil rights and who fights for them: from Nepal's disappeared to Albanian children victims of feuds. L'Unità, Peacereporter, East, Skytg24, L’Espresso, Popoli e Missione, Le Monde Diplomatique are among my travelling companions. I love rock and nature, even when they're not in vogue.
Favourite quote:
"The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it: basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them" (Charles Bukowsky)
Davide Lemmi
Contributor
Contentious, bipolar and peevish. I’m pretty similar to Beirut, or maybe I just want to be. I was born in Tuscany in 1989. High school, university, underpaid collaborations with local papers and a one-way ticket to Lebanon. I work like a freelance and live like a freelance. I decide what to write and what to photograph, without upsetting my wallet too much.
Stella Levantesi
Contributor
As a journalist and photographer, I travel the world in search of stories to tell. Born and raised in Rome, I live between Italy and New York where I obtained my degree at New York University’s school of journalism. Words and images are part of my storytelling narrative: from my experience with the mountain gorillas in Uganda, to the destruction of native lands in the US plagued by Trump’s anti-environmental agenda, and again, from the struggle of a mother with opioid use disorder in New York’s most drug-ridden neighbourhood, to the social and environmental crisis of those Caribbean islands wiped out by violent hurricanes. I believe in the power of stories that go beyond the predictable, stories that are able to offer new and unusual perspectives even for the most commonly recurring issues in the media. I've worked with the BBC, Il Manifesto, Internazionale, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in Puerto Rico, NBC and others. Travelling, nature and good food take care of my body and my soul.
Favourite quote
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music" (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Laura Loguercio
Freelance journalist from Milan, I’ve lived in Auckland, New York and London. After obtaining degrees in Philosophy and then Communications, I’m currently studying Journalism at New York University. I write about politics, human rights and gender equality, to remind myself that there’s a lot to be said, but that many good things remain in the world.
Favourite quote: “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” (Jack Kerouac)
Eric J. Lyman
Contributor
I am a U.S.-born freelance writer based in Rome. I have more than 20 years experience writing about environmental issues, and have covered more than 50 UN climate negotiations, more than any other journalist.
My work has been published by around 250 media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Economist, Time Magazine, and Bloomberg-BNA.
My Twitter handle is @EricJLyman.
Filippo Maggioni
Web and Sound Engineer
My role in LifeGate consists in organising the radio schedule and managing audio frequencies, sound recordings and sound editing. I supervise online banners and the network sound platform.
Favourite quote:
"There is no worse deaf man than the one who doesn't want to hear" (Jesus)
|My role in LifeGate consists in organising the radio schedule and managing audio frequencies, sound recordings and sound editing. I supervise online banners and the network sound platform.
Favourite quote:
"There is no worse deaf man than the one who doesn't want to hear" (Jesus)
Paola Magni
Digital Editor
In LifeGate I’ve turned my passions (ecology and natural nutrition) into a career. I think divulgation generates consciousness and eating good, seasonal and unprocessed food is one of the most satisfying ways for me to connect to the environment. Something about me? I’m not vegetarian, I have two kids, Diego and Naima, I drive a Prius and I’m about to finish reading “L’ultima riga delle favole” by Massimo Gramellini.
Favourite quote:
“How do I explain to my wife that when I look out the window I'm working?” (Joseph Conrad)
Giulio Magni
Sustainability Consultant
I'm very passionate about nature and the environment, which motivated me to pursue a Bachelor's Degree in Biological Sciences and a Master's in Sustainability. I believe in the existence of immutable values such as respect for people and the planet and I try to transmit this also through my profession as consultant.
Favourite quote:
The best is yet to come…
Basudev Mahapatra
Contributor
Born and brought up in a typical Indian village, nature has been my first love since childhood. Poverty, inequality and discrimination in the Indian society are the drivers bringing me to journalism and pursuing me to act as a voice amplifier for the oppressed and deprived. It’s only after becoming a journalist, in 1992, that I realised the need to learn continuously in order to fulfil my passion and grow as a professional. I am still learning and enjoying it at LifeGate.
Favourite quote: “As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.” (Ernest Hemingway)
Eleonora Mangano
Back Office
I organise clients’ databases and am involved in back office work.
LifeGate and its philosophy have brought me closer to energy saving and environmental issues. I’m lucky to be part of a strong and close-knit family. I enjoy going to the seaside, swimming and walking.
Favourite quote:
"Sometimes the winner is simply a dreamer who never gave up" (Jim Morrison)
|I organise clients’ databases and am involved in back office work.
LifeGate and its philosophy have brought me closer to energy saving and environmental issues. I’m lucky to be part of a strong and close-knit family. I enjoy going to the seaside, swimming and walking.
Favourite quote:
"Sometimes the winner is simply a dreamer who never gave up" (Jim Morrison)
|I organise clients’ databases and am involved in back office work.
LifeGate and its philosophy have brought me closer to energy saving and environmental issues. I’m lucky to be part of a strong and close-knit family. I enjoy going to the seaside, swimming and walking.
Favourite quote:
"Sometimes the winner is simply a dreamer who never gave up" (Jim Morrison)
|I organise clients’ databases and am involved in back office work.
LifeGate and its philosophy have brought me closer to energy saving and environmental issues. I’m lucky to be part of a strong and close-knit family. I enjoy going to the seaside, swimming and walking.
Favourite quote:
"Sometimes the winner is simply a dreamer who never gave up" (Jim Morrison)
|I organise clients’ databases and am involved in back office work.
LifeGate and its philosophy have brought me closer to energy saving and environmental issues. I’m lucky to be part of a strong and close-knit family. I enjoy going to the seaside, swimming and walking.
Favourite quote:
"Sometimes the winner is simply a dreamer who never gave up" (Jim Morrison)
Sara Manisera
Contributor
Freelance journalist. I was born on the night of the falling stars, my parents are both migrants, the children of farmers who themselves had migrated to Germany after the war. The Earth, sacrifice and family are my compass. I live in Beirut where I completed a Master's in Mediterranean Studies and work as a freelance journalist for various international media organisations. I dream of returning to the Vallo di Diano to collect memories and folklore stories.
FAVORITE QUOTE: “To go slowly is to know a thousand variations of one’s way of life, the names of friends, colours and rain, games and vigils, confidences and slanders” (Franco Cassabile, Pensiero Meridiano)
Francesca Marzo
eCommerce Specialist
Before joining LifeGate I filled a number of roles in the fields of photography and advertising graphics. I love creating, regardless of the context. Watching things actuated drives me to improve myself constantly. In LifeGate I work in the field of LED Trade Development and am Promoter Project Manager. LifeGate Promoter is a real revolution in the LifeGate lifestyle, as it is interactive and benefits everyone.
I firmly believe in my work. The idea of gathering all national enterprises operating in organic food and ecosustainability represents a dream which is now beginning to show its fruits.
Favourite quote: “Even a stopped clock is right twice a day” Herman Hesse
Leo Mas
Array
Historic resident at Amnesia, godfather of Balearic sound and house music legend, Leo Mas is also one of the great music selectors on the scene, capable of varying and experimenting at 360°.
Mimmi Maselli
Contributor
Expert in media communication, I worked in the areas of marketing, events and institutional communication for MTV Italy. I was a project manager for Elita Milano and worked on many international events. For the past few years I've been working as a content editor for Red Bull Italy, as well as an editorial coordinator. As a music consultant and deejay I've specialised in organising the sound for corporate events and have collaborated with many prestigious brands, especially in the world of fashion. I worked with Alessio Bertallot in the editorial development and communication of Casa Bertallot webradio and as artistic consultant for Radio Mercato Centrale in Florence and Rome. I'm part of team Jackleg, a sound design and music production studio in Milan; I teach a workshop on the relationship between brands and music in the Masters in Music Communication at Cattolica University in Milan and am co-creator of the Baby DJ Lab project, a music lab for children and young adults.
Favourite quote: "I do some stupid things, but my heart's in the right place" (Things the Grandchildren Should Know, Eels)
Novrida Masli
Contributor
I have a Master’s Degree in Sustainability, Environment and Development from the University of Leeds in England, and studied Soil Science at undergraduate level at Bogor Agricultural University in Indonesia.
In Indonesia, until recently, I served as a consultant to the Adaptation Marketplace initiative of Indonesia WWF and previously to the Climate Change Unit of UK’s DFID in Indonesia. In the years prior I was a Climate Change Specialist at Yayasan Bina Usaha Lingkungan, one of Indonesia’s leading NGOs in the field of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Before that I worked for the Indonesian Ministry of the Environment.
Married to an Indonesian diplomat, our family just welcomed our second child. I’m a columnist and editor of the newsletter of the Indonesian ladies association of the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra, Australia.
I love living a good life by exercising, applying healthy habits and being religious. I love gathering with family and friends, reading, watching movies and travelling when possible.
Luigi Mastrodonato
Contributor
I'm a freelance journalist, born in 1990. I write about human rights, migration and social issues, perhaps because they're the themes that most inspired me during my studies in Political Science, first in Milan, then in Brussels, with a few months spent studying abroad in Beirut. I always look for the personal stories behind macro-themes, and I believe they're best told through people's own words.
FAVOURITE QUOTE
"I read in self-defence" (Woody Allen)
Manlio Masucci
Navdanya International
I’m a journalist who focuses on environmental, commercial and labour market issues, exploring the connections between the economic interests of multinational corporations, commercial politics that are influenced by lobbyists and the damaging effects that systems of industrial production and distribution have on the environment as well as the health of workers and consumers.
In the past few years I’ve devoted my attention to new generation free-trade treaties and to the quality of nutrition, with a particular focus on the behaviour of corporations regarding questions of intellectual property and biodiversity conservation.
I’ve worked for the principal Italian media outlets, such as Ansa, Il Messaggero and Il Manifesto, and as a correspondent from New York, Buenos Aires and New Delhi. Additionally, I recently worked for the press office of the Monsanto Tribunal in The Hague, and in the communication departments of several Italian NGOs, as well as for the ILO (International Labour Organisation). I currently work for Navdanya International.
Favourite quote: “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing” (Oscar Wilde)
Alessia Mauri
Energy Account Manager
I sell renewable energy and natural gas to SMEs. I firmly believe in what I do and I think it is right to encourage a sense of environmental respect in businesses, especially through renewable energies because they are an important element to safeguarding the planet. I also provide costumer care and back office activities. Client relationships are everything: kindness, helpfulness and competence are cornerstones to a positive and effective collaboration. Nowadays, these qualities are taken for granted, but they shouldn't be!
I’m an energetic girl…my job is part of who I am!
Favorite quote:
"He whose face emits no light shall never become a star."
|I sell renewable energy and natural gas to SMEs. I firmly believe in what I do and I think it is right to encourage a sense of environmental respect in businesses, especially through renewable energies because they are an important element to safeguarding the planet. I also provide costumer care and back office activities. Client relationships are everything: kindness, helpfulness and competence are cornerstones to a positive and effective collaboration. Nowadays, these qualities are taken for granted, but they shouldn't be!
I’m an energetic girl…my job is part of who I am!
Favorite quote:
"He whose face emits no light shall never become a star."
Phil McCabe
Columnist
I’m a father of three and husband of one, an activist, a surfer, a business owner and a single member of a wonderfully rich community of people in a small town on the west coast of New Zealand’s North Island.
I have no qualifications but have had a few experiences and every one of them is valued. I am dead scared of failing but I’ve learned that each action I take sets me up for the next and I trust that when intuitive inspiration is acted upon, anything is possible… So I tend to “give things a go”.
Favourite Quote:
Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. (Thich Nhat Hanh)
Andrew McIndoe
Contributor
Andrew McIndoe is Managing Director of Hillier Nurseries and Garden Centres in Hampshire, UK. As designer of the Hillier exhibit at the Royal Horticultural Society's Chelsea Flower for the past 25 years he has upheld the company's unprecedented record of 66 consecutive gold medals at the show. He is a tutor and blogger at the online gardening school MyGardenSchool.
Fabio Merafino
Communication Project Manager
With a degree in Economics, I began my career as a business consultant, to then move into the world of media/entertainment and events (that I never left!) as a project manager.
I became increasingly involved in themes connected to food, sustainability, non-profit, managing communications, contents and fundraising.
In the past few years as account manager I've focused on developing partnerships with entities and businesses for (public and corporate) events and communications projects.
Now working at LifeGate, I share its themes, spirit and great passion for music... A perfect way to express all prior experiences.
Pascal Mittermaier
Columnist
Pascal Mittermaier is the Global Managing Director for Cities at The Nature Conservancy, a US based conservation NGO active in over 35 countries. He leads a new team at the Conservancy focused on transforming how the world’s growing cities manage their natural resources.
Most recently, Pascal served as the Head of Sustainability, Europe and Managing Director for London’s Elephant & Castle Regeneration at Lend Lease, a global property and construction company. In this role, Pascal was responsible for embedding innovative environment and social approaches across all of Lend Lease’s businesses. Pascal also led the Elephant & Castle regeneration project in central London, a 10-year project to develop 3,000 of the UK’s most energy efficient homes, including an on-site clean energy plant, a cycle-walk-public transport infrastructure and the largest new park in Central London in 70 years. The project incorporates many green innovations and is part of the C40 Cities Climate Positive Development Program, a network of leading cities from around the world committed to implementing meaningful and sustainable climate-related policies and programmes.
Pascal was also a Board Director of FSC UK, and a frequent lecturer at Cambridge University’s Programme for Sustainable Leadership.
Prior to finding his career path in sustainability, Pascal worked at the Swiss healthcare company Roche, where he was Managing Director of Roche in Canada and Italy. Whilst in Italy he met Marco and Enea Roveda, working with LifeGate on optimising Roche’s sustainability performance. The partnership with Lifegate helped Roche Italy reduce its carbon footbprint by 45%. This included optimization of logistics, energy procurement and planting new trees on the Monza campus. Roche also built a 1.4 MW photovoltaic covered parking lot on its site, one of the largest in Italy.
Pascal fell in love with LifeGate’s vision, becoming shareholder in 2010.
He studied Economics and History at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and completed his MSc. in Climate Change and Sustainable Development from DeMontfort University.
He is now based in Boston, Massachusetts where he lives with his family. Along with nature conservation, his lifelong passions are kitesurfing and drumming.
Matia Molteni
Energy Account Manager
I work to provide SMEs with 100% renewable energy and natural gas. I look for potentials customers through telemarketing activities and offer consulting on energy consumption and tariff plans in order to guarantee customers targeted offers. I am also a customer care representative and aim to establish long-lasting relationships of trust and transparency with clients. I love all sports and if I could, I would be involved in all of them. I’ve got a Harley Sportster 1200, I adore riding it but when I race… I always arrive last.
Favourite quote:
“Don't build your happiness on someone else's unhappiness”
|I work to provide SMEs with 100% renewable energy and natural gas. I look for potentials customers through telemarketing activities and offer consulting on energy consumption and tariff plans in order to guarantee customers targeted offers. I am also a customer care representative and aim to establish long-lasting relationships of trust and transparency with clients. I love all sports and if I could, I would be involved in all of them. I’ve got a Harley Sportster 1200, I adore riding it but when I race… I always arrive last.
Favourite quote:
“Don't build your happiness on someone else's unhappiness”
Simone Molteni
Scientific Director
I lived abroad for 7 intense years. My base was the Solar Energy Laboratory at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland. I worked as a researcher, and Lausanne was my home as well as a formidable springboard to then deepen my understanding of sustainability and innovation issues in London, Paris and Boston.
These were beautiful years in which I travelled a lot, founded a university spin-off and had the honor to work at the Louvre Museum (an unforgettable experience).
In 2002 I returned to Italy to launch Zero Impact®. In LifeGate I found my vision and values: my first project couldn’t have been developed elsewhere. The project was the first to educate the general public on the theme of climate change and the concept of the “environmental cost” of our lifestyles. It was a dream that exceeded my expectations.
I followed the start-up phase of the LifeGate Energy division and, as its Scientific Director, I support the definition of sustainability paths for those large businesses that decide to work with us.
I was member of the Ecolabel and Ecoaudit Committee of the European Commission and Board Member of ENEA, CESI Ricerche and ERSE. I was awarded the Rotary Prize for professionalism and the title of “Paul Harris Fellow”.
I’ve always been fond of start-ups: being awarded the Swiss-American “Venture Leaders” Prize I became NETS Ambassador for coaching high-tech start-ups.
My imprint has been the same throughout all my experiences: raising the general public’s awareness on sustainability issues and our lifestyle’s impact on the planet.
My 3 ideal conditions are: travelling in remote countries, underwater in warm seas and on top of a mountain – best with skis and three metres of snow.
Favorite quote:
“My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.” (Charles F. Kettering)
Sara Moraca
Contributor
Environmental journalist and science writer, as a little girl I wanted to be a judge. Then I chose to dedicate my pen to the service of scientific journalism, treating controversies related to science, technology and society with particular zeal.
Favourite quote
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." (Eleanor Roosevelt)
Cassia Moraes
I dedicated my studies and career to fostering international cooperation for climate action in the public, private and nonprofit sectors. I’m currently the Deputy Executive Coordinator of the Brazilian Forum on Climate Change, and also the Founder and CEO of Youth Climate Leaders (YCL). YCL won the 2017 MIT Climate CoLab Contest and I had the honor of presenting the organization on a private meeting with President Obama during his visit to Sao Paulo in 2017. I have an MPA degree in Development Practice from Columbia University, serving at the Lemann Fellows board of the Columbia Global Center Rio de Janeiro.
Andrea Morello
Sea Shepherd
President of Sea Shepherd Italy
He has been the national coordinator of Sea Shepherd Italia ever since the organization was founded in 2010, and he is also a volunteer for Sea Shepherd Global, the most efficient and fiercest worldwide species conservation movement founded by Captain Paul Watson.
When the ship Steve Irvin arrived in the Mediterranean during Operation Blue Rage, in the course of which 800 bluefin tuna illegally caught were set free, Sea Shepherd began its defence of the mare nostrum. On that occasion, a deep friendship with the Maiorca family originated. From that, the first Italian campaign arose. The aim of this campaign was to protect the fragile, wonderful ecosystem form the more and more threatening actions of poachers. In 2012 Sea Shepherd received by the Italian authorities an award as the best organization for the defence of the seas.
In 2017 he launched Operation Jairo Med, aimed at protecting turtle nests and, during the same year, on board the Sam Simon, he led to 74 kilometres of illegal fishing equipment (Fad) being seized in the waters of the Aeolian Islands. As the years go by, he has been leading Sea Shepherd to being more and more present in Italy. In this, he is supported by Enrico Salierno, his second-in-command and deputy national coordinator. Currently, his organization has hundreds of volunteers, who are present in almost every region. They organise beach cleaning, projects in schools, and they cooperate more and more closely with authorities, institutions and other environmental organisations, to defend and conserve our oceans.
Favourite quote: "What I've dared, I've willed; and what I've willed, I'll do!" (Captain Ahab)
Dalia Morosini
Project Manager
I completed my degree in Psychology in 2010 and since then I've always been involved in project management on the one hand, managing both B2B and European research projects, and the creation, planning and realisation of formative experiences and courses through the use of new technologies. My passion, and my work, have brought me to study and understand how the principal technological innovations can be used to the benefit of people and businesses, with a particular emphasis on the world of gamification and serious games. I've always tried to unite work with fun and that's why I started working at LifeGate, where I bring my experience in accompanying businesses and people towards leading a more sustainable lifestyle.
My greatest passion is backpacking: I love uncovering the most remote places in the world, confronting myself with different people and cultures and having my breath taken away by beautiful landscapes.
Favourite quote:
“Happiness is real only when shared” (Into the wild)
Frédéric Mousseau
Columnist
Frédéric Mousseau is the Policy Director at the Oakland Institute where he coordinates the Institute’s research and advocacy activities on land investment, food security and agriculture. He has conducted numerous reviews and studies on food and agriculture and authored many reports and articles on these issues. Trained as an economist, Frederic has worked as a staff member and consultant for international relief agencies for nearly two decades, including Action Against Hunger, Doctors Without Borders, and Oxfam International.
Rossella Muroni
Columnist
Presidente nazionale Legambiente
Direttrice generale dal 2007. Rossella Muroni è arrivata in Legambiente come volontaria nel settore comunicazione e ufficio stampa nel 1996. Dopo alcuni anni da Responsabile Comunicazione delle campagne itineranti dell’associazione, nel 2002 è diventata Responsabile e Portavoce del settore campagne curando le principali attività di informazione e sensibilizzazione di Legambiente: da Goletta Verde al Treno Verde, da Spiagge e Fondali Puliti alla rete internazionale dei campi di volontariato ambientale.
Dal 1999 fa parte del direttivo e dal 2003 della segreteria nazionale dell’associazione. Sociologa, esperta nei temi della sostenibilità ambientale nell’ambito turistico e di organizzazione dei servizi territoriali, ha contribuito a numerose pubblicazioni associative. Molto interessata al tema dei diritti e particolarmente impegnata per tutelare quelli delle donne a tutti i livelli, nella società, nella politica e nel lavoro. Ha una passione per l'Aikido ed è mamma di Simone e Samuele.
"Nella vita non c'è nulla da temere, solo da capire” (Margherita Hack)
Mike Mwenda
Contributor
I’m passionate about understanding humanity and the environment we live in. I want our generation to be known for something incredible. I graduated in journalism and public relations, I have a blog where I document and write about environmental issues affecting the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC). I have had the privilege of visiting Scotland, Italy and South Africa. Because traveling to me is adventurous; especially making new friends. In addition to writing about arts, environment and culture, I also advocate for women’s rights and empowerment in the Southern part of Africa.
Favourite Quote
“A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.” (Joyce Brothers)
Valentina Neri
Contributor
Since I was very young, when I would ask myself what I would become as a grown-up, I always gave myself the same answer: a writer. At 22 I found myself treating the economy, environment, sustainability, lifestyles, uncovering a world that – fortunately! – isn't only for insiders, but quite the contrary. I'm a freelancer by choice, my field is that of communications (from press offices to social media) and I'm even more motivated when I can make my services available to brave associations and projects. When I'm not in front of a keyboard I run, read, bake cakes and go to concerts.
Favourite quote:
"That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones" (Raymond Carver)
Flavia Olivieri
A recent graduate in Msc in Environmental Sciences, this degree has given me the strong sense of urgency and desire to spread awareness on environmental issues. I integrate sustainable practices such as limiting plastic usage and general waste in my daily life, while also believing that writing news articles may be an equally (if not more) effective way to act upon environmental concerns. I plan on furthering my technical and scientific knowledge with more studies, which will hopefully give me a stronger voice in this.
Panta Rei (Heraclitus)
Babatunde Onabajo
Contributor
I am studying for an MSc Brazil in Global Perspective at the Brazil Institute of King’s College, London. I am also completing external modules with the Lau China Institute, the Institute of North American Studies and the Department of European & International Studies. Furthermore, I am taking the Associateship of King’s College, a special award offered by the university to those with an interest in theology. Prior to postgraduate studies, I studied BSc Economics at Cardiff University. I am currently improving my German in my spare time and recently completed the King’s College, London Experience Global Award narrating my interest in German culture. I intend to continue in my studies at the Ph.D. level either in the field of Political Economy or International Relations.
Lara Orezzi
I've been working for LifeGate for about a year, since the launching of Lifegate Products (sale and installation of LED lighting). I'm lucky enough to be involved in two different sectors: administration and sales...let's just say that I don't have time to get bored, in fact, every day I am more motivated to reach new objectives. But you might not believe me when I tell you that, at home, I love staying in the dark and try to never switch the lights on.
I love dancing...even though, since becoming mother to Beatrice, I can let loose only at home in front of the mirror. My hope is that in a few years' time we'll be able to dance together.
Favourite quote:
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” M.Gandhi
Yamina Oudai Celso
Contributor
Early on I began manifesting the symptoms of two incurable vices, philosophy and writing: I channeled the former into a PhD in research, the publication of a book about Freud published by Bollati Boringhieri and an academic career divided between Venice, Geneva and Paris. The latter found its expression in a ten year journalistic collaboration with printed and online newspapers, with a particular focus on art, literature and travel. I'm always in search of a leitmotif between culture, arts, architecture and landscapes, because the most intense emotions and most instructive reflections are, in my case, always provoked by Beauty - which inevitably implies, and often coincides with, a harmonious dialogue with the environment and the rest of the planet. My favourite "drugs"? A Keith Jarret or Itzhak Perlman concert, a film by Luchino Visconti, a Baudelaire poem, a "Don Giovanni" sung like it should be or a Shakespeare play, or a whole day spent in the kitchen inventing recipes, or the contemplation of my animal "alter egos", that is, cats (house ones and non), cheetahs, lions and felines in general: if they don't come to my couch, I'll go to the savannah to look for them.
Favourite quote:
“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star" (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Brunella Paciello
Contributor
I have been a journalist since 1982. After years of fashion, beauty and science writing, I founded a monthly magazine dedicated to dogs (Dog) that is now a portal (Dognet.it). Animals, especially dogs, and nature are my great passions — as well as a substantial component of my work.
Favourite quote: “Nature heals, the doctor cures” (Georg Groddeck)
Rocco Passafaro
Contributor
My passion for health, nutrition and sustainability are my driving force. I was born and raised in Italy, and lived eleven years in the fast-paced and densely populated city of Los Angeles.
Recently, my curiosity and true love for nature brought me to the Pacific Northwest, where evergreen trees are the canvas, where astonishing beauty meets grace and open mindedness, where I can take my commitment to health, environment and self-sufficiency to the next level.
Favorite Quote:
In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life. (Vandana Shiva)
Silvia Passini
Digital Editor
I listen, am easily moved and write. I have always liked stories, both those written in books and those told by people, which sometimes overlap. I like discovering and helping other people discover those who try to do some good for themselves and the world. I'm obsessed with words, their sound, their importance and elegance.
I like nice things, I'm a compulsive buyer of books and stationery, I drink a lot of infusions and eat a lot of fruit jellies.
I write interviews, reviews and lifestyle articles for LifeGate.
Favourite quotes:
"The best things shimmer with fear" (Don DeLillo)
|I listen, am easily moved and write. I have always liked stories, both those written in books and those told by people, which sometimes overlap. I like discovering and helping other people discover those who try to do some good for themselves and the world. I'm obsessed with words, their sound, their importance and elegance.
I like nice things, I'm a compulsive buyer of books and stationery, I drink a lot of infusions and eat a lot of fruit jellies.
I write interviews, reviews and lifestyle articles for LifeGate.
Favourite quotes:
"The best things shimmer with fear" (Don DeLillo)
Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio
Columnist
Lawyer, journalist, MP since 1992, Minister of Agriculture in 2000/2001 and of the Environment in 2006-2008. From 2001 to 2008, Alfonso was elected president of the Greens Federation (Federazione dei Verdi) three times. Since 2008, he has been President of the Univerde Foundation. He teaches at Bicocca University, in Milan and Tor Vergata University, in Rome.
Tommaso Perrone
Editor in Chief
Demonstrated leader and team manager focused on issues surrounding climate change, both the problems it creates and the solutions being sought.
I'm an environmental journalist, but I started as a blogger. I graduated in International Relations.
Favourite quote: "Shy people notice everything but don't get noticed" (Titta Di Girolamo in “The Consequences of Love”)
Simon Perrott
LifeGate UK
My life has been an eclectic mix of very different experiences having lived in several different continents and changed career multiple times but something that never changes is my love of nature.
From my earliest memories of riding through a forest on the back of my father's bicycle to ski touring through the Alps as an adult, the beauty of our planet continues to harmonise my nervous system, sooth my frustrations and open me up to be my best self.
My background is scientific having studied Physics then a postgraduate at Cambridge University. After almost two decades of working for companies big and small in the UK and US, I now split my time between Europe and Asia, teaching yoga and somatics as well as coaching.
FAVOURITE QUOTE:
“Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better” (Albert Einstein)
Daniele Piacenza
Business Development Manager
I have recently started work in this great company, something which I'm very proud of. With it I share moral ethics of solidarity, which the company professes and that we must all, in some way, follow.
Favourite quote
"Add life to your years not years to your life"
Stefania Piloni
Contributor
I'm a doctor by choice, a gynecologist for female solidarity, homoeopath and phytotherapist for love of humane medicine that is vast and integrated. I teach Phytotherapy at Milan University, grow medicinal herbs, have the privilege of being mother to Sofia, Sara and Giacomo. I am author of books about health and sexuality and a novel on love and eroticism.
Favourite quote:
“Who throws seeds into the wind will make the sky blossom” (Ivan, street poet)
Enrico Pirotta
Contributor
I have been involved in marine science since 2007, first as part of my studies and in recent years as a researcher. My passion has always been the biology and ecology of marine predators, particularly marine mammals. With my work, I hope to shed light on the fascinating life of these magnificent creatures, in order to support their conservation in the face of growing human pressure on the sea.
Favourite quote:
"If I tell you that the city toward which my journey tends is discontinuous in space and time, now scattered, now more condensed, you must not believe the search for it can stop" (The Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino)
Luca Poma
Columnist
Journalist, author of the Sole 24 Ore Group, professional associate of FERP, the Federation of Public and Institutional Relations, member of the "Business Communications Club" at the Industrial Union of Turin, associate of the National Union of Medical-Scientific Information. Professor of Communications Strategy for the "Health Systems" Master's at Bicocca University, Milan and in Digital Communications Strategy at the "Business Communications and Institutional Relations" Master's (Rome) and "Digital Communications and Media" Master's (Milan) of the Sole 24 Ore Business School. In merit of his communication projects he was awarded the Targa d'Argento from the Italian President in 2007 and, in 2011, the "Public Affairs Award" in "Excellence in Communications", delivered in the Sala Capitolare of the Senate. Since 1990 he has worked on communications projects and PR in 21 countries. In the 16th Legislature he was Adviser to the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, and was subsequently nominated member of the Working Group for Communications Strategy Policy of the Italian Ministry of Defense. His newsletter is creatoridifuturo.it.
Favourite quote:
"μέσον τε καὶ ἄριστον - In medio stat virtus" (Aristotle)
|Journalist, author of the Sole 24 Ore Group, professional associate of FERP, the Federation of Public and Institutional Relations, member of the "Business Communications Club" at the Industrial Union of Turin, associate of the National Union of Medical-Scientific Information. Professor of Communications Strategy for the "Health Systems" Master's at Bicocca University, Milan and in Digital Communications Strategy at the "Business Communications and Institutional Relations" Master's (Rome) and "Digital Communications and Media" Master's (Milan) of the Sole 24 Ore Business School. In merit of his communication projects he was awarded the Targa d'Argento from the Italian President in 2007 and, in 2011, the "Public Affairs Award" in "Excellence in Communications", delivered in the Sala Capitolare of the Senate. Since 1990 he has worked on communications projects and PR in 21 countries. In the 16th Legislature he was Adviser to the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, and was subsequently nominated member of the Working Group for Communications Strategy Policy of the Italian Ministry of Defense. His newsletter is creatoridifuturo.it.
Favourite quote:
"μέσον τε καὶ ἄριστον - In medio stat virtus" (Aristotle)
|Journalist, author of the Sole 24 Ore Group, professional associate of FERP, the Federation of Public and Institutional Relations, member of the "Business Communications Club" at the Industrial Union of Turin, associate of the National Union of Medical-Scientific Information. Professor of Communications Strategy for the "Health Systems" Master's at Bicocca University, Milan and in Digital Communications Strategy at the "Business Communications and Institutional Relations" Master's (Rome) and "Digital Communications and Media" Master's (Milan) of the Sole 24 Ore Business School. In merit of his communication projects he was awarded the Targa d'Argento from the Italian President in 2007 and, in 2011, the "Public Affairs Award" in "Excellence in Communications", delivered in the Sala Capitolare of the Senate. Since 1990 he has worked on communications projects and PR in 21 countries. In the 16th Legislature he was Adviser to the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, and was subsequently nominated member of the Working Group for Communications Strategy Policy of the Italian Ministry of Defense. His newsletter is creatoridifuturo.it.
Favourite quote:
"μέσον τε καὶ ἄριστον - In medio stat virtus" (Aristotle)
Claudio Pomo
Columnist
Claudio has been engaged in animal rights since 1992, year in which he became vegetarian. A few years later he veered towards the vegan choice, pioneering at the time, and began being involved on the frontline in a number of causes related to ecology and animals. He is one of the founders of the campaign that brought to the closure of the Stefano Morini and Green Hill laboratory animals breeding centres and worked for a decade in a dog pound, in which he learned a lot about animals' language.
He lives in the province of Milan and is co-founder and head of campaigns at Essere Animali, organisation created in 2011 to promote a future free of cages or animal exploitation. A future that is possible, even though it a lot of effort will be required to build it.
Favourite quote
"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them" (Aristotle)
Rebecca Pozzi Taubert
Contributor
I moved abroad for the first time to study in the United Kingdom and, since then, never stopped wanting to experience new places and cultures. Curiosity and wonder have led me to work first in the US, then Tanzania and now in Myanmar; next, who knows?
Hand in hand with my passion for exploring goes my love for outdoor activities like scuba diving, horseback riding and snowboarding.
I’m interested in international development, my field of work, and I'm thrilled at the idea of writing about environmental and social issues.
Favourite quote:
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.Discover." (Mark Twain)
Chiara Riccio
Contributor
Student of Editorial Fashion Communications, I love writing and keeping myself updated on the latest fashion news. I am passionate about fashion, travelling and lifestyle, my dream is to make of writing a veritable job because this is how best express my energies.
Favourite quote:
"In life it is sometimes necessary to know how to fight, not only without fear, but also without hope" (Sandro Pertini)
|Student of Editorial Fashion Communications, I love writing and keeping myself updated on the latest fashion news. I am passionate about fashion, travelling and lifestyle, my dream is to make of writing a veritable job because this is how best express my energies.
Favourite quote:
"In life it is sometimes necessary to know how to fight, not only without fear, but also without hope" (Sandro Pertini)
|Student of Editorial Fashion Communications, I love writing and keeping myself updated on the latest fashion news. I am passionate about fashion, travelling and lifestyle, my dream is to make of writing a veritable job because this is how best express my energies.
Favourite quote:
"In life it is sometimes necessary to know how to fight, not only without fear, but also without hope" (Sandro Pertini)
|Student of Editorial Fashion Communications, I love writing and keeping myself updated on the latest fashion news. I am passionate about fashion, travelling and lifestyle, my dream is to make of writing a veritable job because this is how best express my energies.
Favourite quote:
"In life it is sometimes necessary to know how to fight, not only without fear, but also without hope" (Sandro Pertini)
|Student of Editorial Fashion Communications, I love writing and keeping myself updated on the latest fashion news. I am passionate about fashion, travelling and lifestyle, my dream is to make of writing a veritable job because this is how best express my energies.
Favourite quote:
"In life it is sometimes necessary to know how to fight, not only without fear, but also without hope" (Sandro Pertini)
Emanuele Rigitano
Contributor
I'm a blogger dedicated to cross-media environmental communication and social media. I write about ecology on ecodellaterra.blogspot and politics on Linkiesta, in the Ego Politico blog, and founded the alternative information website Nuova Repubblica. I have worked with the environmental newspapers Terra and Greenreport and in 2011-13 I was part of the web communications team at the Federazione dei Verdi after having obtained a Master's in Environmental Communications. In my spare time I like to cook, read, take photographs, run and use my bicycle, as well as participate in socio-political community initiatives to make a difference, however small, in my society.
Favourite quote:
"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act" (George Orwell)
Martina Rogato
Contributor
I am a Corporate Social Responsibility Specialist and a human rights activist. I graduated in International Relations at LUISS and in Green Management and CSR at Bocconi University. After an internship at the European Commission’s Directorate General for Enterprise and some research experiences in the field of sustainability, in 2012 I started my career as a CSR Consultant. I love travelling and over the past years I have had the chance to live in Italy, France, Belgium, China and Turkey.
Favourite Quote:
“…the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.” (Immanuel Kant)
Rosalaura Romeo
Columnist
Rosalaura Romeo is Programme Officer at the Mountain Partnership Secretariat, hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Paola Roncareggi
Media Project Manager
Texts, images and sounds are instruments that have always told the history of humankind. Today more than ever, communication opportunities have multiplied, offering an infinite range of analogical and digital tools.
Working in this world is an ongoing challenge, as well as an honor: the objective is to spread a clear message, choosing the most appropriate channels and languages.
This is translated into the creation and planning of cross-media campaigns on LifeGate’s platform (radio, web and social media) and other media, centred on open dialogues that are focused on individual communication needs. Projects concern publishing activities, online campaigns as well as real events, aimed at describing all aspects of a sustainable lifestyle. This is an activity requiring a shared understanding and a close-knit team. I believe in teamwork, I’m a sportswoman and I'm curious.
I’d rather not to be boxed into a predefined label.
Favorite quote:
“Change three behaviors a year and you’ll obtain phenomenal outcomes”. (Anonymous)
Giulia Rosmarini
Contributor
After completing my degree in Philosophy I began working in the field of communications until making my debut, almost by chance, in press offices. I like cinema and narration, especially when the structure of the story is classical.
I love William Somerset Maugham and the strips of Schulz's Peanuts. I also like photography, with which my relationship is more instinctive than rational. I believe in the possibility of everyone having the right to choosing their own life.
Favourite quote:
"The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea" (Karen Blixen)
Enea Roveda
Chief Executive Officer
I’ve been working at LifeGate with great passion since 2000. Initially, I worked on the establishment of LifeGate Radio as Art Director and then as CEO, building a community of people who share a love for music and the planet. Beginning in 2010, as Marketing and Communications Director, I employed my competencies to extend LifeGate’s community through digital development, and work with businesses to create sustainable value, through consulting activities and communication projects. Since 2014 I am CEO of the LifeGate Group.
The key words of my work are: innovation, transparency, coherence.
I believe sustainability is synonymous with respect, both as far as people and businesses are concerned. I devote my life to promote this value. I eat organic and local food, and animals as little as possible. As soon as I can I backpack or get out my hybrid car to experience two-wheeled freedom.
Favorite quote:
“Be the change you wish to see in the world” (Mahatma Gandhi)
|I’ve been working at LifeGate with great passion since 2000. Initially, I worked on the establishment of LifeGate Radio as Art Director and then as CEO, building a community of people who share a love for music and the planet. Beginning in 2010, as Marketing and Communications Director, I employed my competencies to extend LifeGate’s community through digital development, and work with businesses to create sustainable value, through consulting activities and communication projects. Since 2014 I am CEO of the LifeGate Group.
The key words of my work are: innovation, transparency, coherence.
I believe sustainability is synonymous with respect, both as far as people and businesses are concerned. I devote my life to promote this value. I eat organic and local food, and animals as little as possible. As soon as I can I backpack or get out my hybrid car to experience two-wheeled freedom.
Favorite quote:
“Be the change you wish to see in the world” (Mahatma Gandhi)
|I’ve been working at LifeGate with great passion since 2000. Initially, I worked on the establishment of LifeGate Radio as Art Director and then as CEO, building a community of people who share a love for music and the planet. Beginning in 2010, as Marketing and Communications Director, I employed my competencies to extend LifeGate’s community through digital development, and work with businesses to create sustainable value, through consulting activities and communication projects. Since 2014 I am CEO of the LifeGate Group.
The key words of my work are: innovation, transparency, coherence.
I believe sustainability is synonymous with respect, both as far as people and businesses are concerned. I devote my life to promote this value. I eat organic and local food, and animals as little as possible. As soon as I can I backpack or get out my hybrid car to experience two-wheeled freedom.
Favorite quote:
“Be the change you wish to see in the world” (Mahatma Gandhi)
|I’ve been working at LifeGate with great passion since 2000. Initially, I worked on the establishment of LifeGate Radio as Art Director and then as CEO, building a community of people who share a love for music and the planet. Beginning in 2010, as Marketing and Communications Director, I employed my competencies to extend LifeGate’s community through digital development, and work with businesses to create sustainable value, through consulting activities and communication projects. Since 2014 I am CEO of the LifeGate Group.
The key words of my work are: innovation, transparency, coherence.
I believe sustainability is synonymous with respect, both as far as people and businesses are concerned. I devote my life to promote this value. I eat organic and local food, and animals as little as possible. As soon as I can I backpack or get out my hybrid car to experience two-wheeled freedom.
Favorite quote:
“Be the change you wish to see in the world” (Mahatma Gandhi)
|I’ve been working at LifeGate with great passion since 2000. Initially, I worked on the establishment of LifeGate Radio as Art Director and then as CEO, building a community of people who share a love for music and the planet. Beginning in 2010, as Marketing and Communications Director, I employed my competencies to extend LifeGate’s community through digital development, and work with businesses to create sustainable value, through consulting activities and communication projects. Since 2014 I am CEO of the LifeGate Group.
The key words of my work are: innovation, transparency, coherence.
I believe sustainability is synonymous with respect, both as far as people and businesses are concerned. I devote my life to promote this value. I eat organic and local food, and animals as little as possible. As soon as I can I backpack or get out my hybrid car to experience two-wheeled freedom.
Favorite quote:
“Be the change you wish to see in the world” (Mahatma Gandhi)
|I’ve been working at LifeGate with great passion since 2000. Initially, I worked on the establishment of LifeGate Radio as Art Director and then as CEO, building a community of people who share a love for music and the planet. Beginning in 2010, as Marketing and Communications Director, I employed my competencies to extend LifeGate’s community through digital development, and work with businesses to create sustainable value, through consulting activities and communication projects. Since 2014 I am CEO of the LifeGate Group.
The key words of my work are: innovation, transparency, coherence.
I believe sustainability is synonymous with respect, both as far as people and businesses are concerned. I devote my life to promote this value. I eat organic and local food, and animals as little as possible. As soon as I can I backpack or get out my hybrid car to experience two-wheeled freedom.
Favorite quote:
“Be the change you wish to see in the world” (Mahatma Gandhi)
Matteo Rubbi
Cherimus NGO
Artist. After graduating in Chemistry somehow, I carefully enroll at the Brera Academy. There I get to know Emiliana Sabiu and Marco Colombaioni: my life changes and we start the adventure of Cherimus.
I spent the last ten years travelling the world, immersed into exciting projects that often surprise me.
Favourite quote: "Carnival is the celebration of being what you want” (Willy, un bimbo di Kivuli)
Roberta Sala
Administration
After 14 years working as a secretary for Fattoria Scaldasole, I began working at LifeGate in 2000, in the Accounting and Administration office.
I spend the little spare time my family “grants” me reading and listening to music.
Favourite quote:
"One of the most beautiful things in life, is to find someone who can understand you, without the need to give many explanations" (Khalil Gibran)
|After 14 years working as a secretary for Fattoria Scaldasole, I began working at LifeGate in 2000, in the Accounting and Administration office.
I spend the little spare time my family “grants” me reading and listening to music.
Favourite quote:
"One of the most beautiful things in life, is to find someone who can understand you, without the need to give many explanations" (Khalil Gibran)
Sebastiano Salvetti
Contributor
Freelance journalist and photographer, I have a degree in law in a drawer somewhere. I'm a four-wheel specialist, both in modern and vintage cars, but my heart beats for mountain sports and cycling. World citizen, I prefer Yosemite National Park to Piazza San Marco. Born in Val Camonica (in the province of Bergamo, Italy), weaned (journalistically speaking) in Milano and Venetian (of Veneto) by adoption, I'm a country boy at heart; in the good and the bad.
Favourite quote:
"I never bring flags on mountains: I never leave anything on peaks, if not my tracks, very briefly, before the wind erases them" (Reinhold Messner)
Simone Santi
Contributor
I'm a sports journalist but have been working as a political reporter for a long time. Sometimes I travel and always come back too early. I was born, grew up and have always lived in Rome, with all its advantages and limits. I'm convinced that attention to civil rights and environmental protection is the foundation for good politics.
Favourite quote:
“All books about all revolutions begin with a chapter that describes the decay of tottering authority or the misery and sufferings of the people. They should begin with a psychological chapter, one that shows how a harassed, terrified man suddenly breaks his terror, stops being afraid” (Ryszard Kapuscinski)
Silvana Santo
Contributor
34, from Naples, freelance environmental journalist. I've been in the field of communications and sustainability, especially for the web, for almost a decade. I've written and write about renewable energy, sustainable construction, climate change, biodiversity, protected areas and recycling. I have a husband, a cat and two children, Davide and Flavia, born respectively in 2013 and 2014. In my blog “Una mamma green” I tell of my daily attempt to raise my children in the most environmentally respectful way possible, in close contact and in conformity with their (and my) needs. I love reading, taking photographs and travelling with my children and their dad
|34, from Naples, freelance environmental journalist. I've been in the field of communications and sustainability, especially for the web, for almost a decade. I've written and write about renewable energy, sustainable construction, climate change, biodiversity, protected areas and recycling. I have a husband, a cat and two children, Davide and Flavia, born respectively in 2013 and 2014. In my blog “Una mamma green” I tell of my daily attempt to raise my children in the most environmentally respectful way possible, in close contact and in conformity with their (and my) needs. I love reading, taking photographs and travelling with my children and their dad
Flavio Santoro
Managing Director of LifeGate Rome
After many years working in strategic consulting for top management tiers, I focused my professional activity on developing consulting and communication projects to improve environmental performance and businesses' positioning in various commodities sectors.
In this context, the encounter with LifeGate was inevitable, since its team and network represent excellence in these fields.
Since 2007 I have been closely collaborating with LifeGate to develop projects for those clients who work or have HQs in Rome and southern Italy.
At a personal level, I really believe in the need to adopt a sustainable lifestyle. I am thus careful about my choices, in life and concerning what I consume. I love travelling and to do so I prefer to sail!
Favourite quote:
“The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the others find an excuse” (African proverb)
Patrizia Scarzella
Contributor
I've been writing about design and architecture for many years and I realise social design projects in Italy and abroad. What did I love the most of my works? The three years I spent in Africa and Asia for a design training and product development project for women in situations of social unrest, with the aim to lay the foundations of a sustainable microeconomics. Photography is a passion and an important mean for my creative work. I have a daughter who lives in San Francisco, the world's most beautiful city to me.
Favourite quote: "We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop." (Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
Gloria Schiavi
Contributor
A newbie freelance journalist, I knowingly chose this path whilst enrolling in a Master’s Degree at the City University of London: the experience as news correspondent for the United Nations and collaborations with mostly foreigner newspapers made me conscious of the goodness of my decision. I’ve always been sensible to sustainability, social justice and the environment. Indeed, I write about these issues, trying to work in the public's interest.
Favourite quote:
"Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie" (Khaled Hosseini)
Gaetano Scippa
Contributor
I graduated in Economics, but my passion for music pushed me in the world of communications, working in the press office, as a journalist and Art Director. I worked for MTV Italia in the period of cross-media experimentation (Flux/Qoob), participated in the development of Pig Magazine writing about modern rhythms and sounds for ten years. I contribute to musical contents for Wired. I curate and promote musical and sustainability reviews with enthusiasm.
Favourite quote:
"What came first, the music or the misery?" (Nick Hornby, "High Fidelity")
|I graduated in Economics, but my passion for music pushed me in the world of communications, working in the press office, as a journalist and Art Director. I worked for MTV Italia in the period of cross-media experimentation (Flux/Qoob), participated in the development of Pig Magazine writing about modern rhythms and sounds for ten years. I contribute to musical contents for Wired. I curate and promote musical and sustainability reviews with enthusiasm.
Favourite quote:
"What came first, the music or the misery?" (Nick Hornby, "High Fidelity")
|I graduated in Economics, but my passion for music pushed me in the world of communications, working in the press office, as a journalist and Art Director. I worked for MTV Italia in the period of cross-media experimentation (Flux/Qoob), participated in the development of Pig Magazine writing about modern rhythms and sounds for ten years. I contribute to musical contents for Wired. I curate and promote musical and sustainability reviews with enthusiasm.
Favourite quote:
"What came first, the music or the misery?" (Nick Hornby, "High Fidelity")
Elisabetta Scuri
Digital Editor
I grew up in a small town in the North of Italy, but I love traveling and I’m always ready to leave. I studied languages and international relations, then my passion for writing led me to the London School of Journalism. I like spending my time in the countryside and I’m keen on horse-riding, which I’ve been practicing for many years.
Favorite quote: “If you really want to dream, wake up!” (Daniel Pennac)
Beatrice Selleri
Contributor
Journalist, graduated in marketing and management, passionate about communication and mother of Sofia and Jacopo. I love to travel and discover the world day after day, even through the eyes of my children. I was born and grew up in Bologna and lived in Milan for few a years, a city full of energy and in continuous evolution. Now I’m living on the other side of the world, in Tokyo, enjoying this new adventure discovering Japan and its wonders.
Favourite quote
"Take life lightly, that lightness is not superficiality, but gliding above things, not having weights on your heart” (Italo Calvino)
Vandana Shiva
Navdanya
Dr. Vandana Shiva, scientist, ecologist, activist, and author, is one of the world’s most dynamic and provocative thinkers on agricultural systems and the environment, women’s issues, and global systems. She is founder and director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Natural Resource Policy in India, Navdanya and more recently of Europe-based Navdanya International Association in Italy. Winner of the Right Livelihood Award in 1993 (the alternative Nobel Peace Prize), Time Magazine identified her as an “environmental hero” and in 2001 Asia Week named her one of the five most important persons of Asia.
Ruchi Shroff
Navdanya International
Director of Navdanya International, based in Rome, Italy, which is the international arm of Navdanya, an organisation headquartered in India that has been working for over 30 year towards the conservation and rejuvenation of agro-biodiversity, traditional knowledge and a transition towards a food system that ensures ecological sustainability, climate resilience, health and nutrition, equity and social justice.
She co-ordinates the international programs and campaigns related to Seed Freedom, food sovereignty as well as resistance to GMOs, free trade agreements, seed monopolies and biopiracy. One of her interests lies in investigating the true costs of the industrial food system paradigm and its impacts on agro biodiversity, socio-economic and ecological sustainability. Trained in physics, economics and management, she has worked for over a decade with social movements in the defence and protection of the environment as well as democratic rights of minorities and indigenous communities.
Favourite quote: “Today's food is so toxic that when you sit down eating, rather than saying ‘Enjoy your meal’, it would be better to say ‘Good luck’” (Pierre Rabhi)
Marco Simoncelli
Adventurer born in Rome, in 1988. Crazily in love with Africa and its peoples, but also interested in the discovery of all that concerns developing countries in general. Freelance journalist by choice. I love that type of journalism in which the reporter doesn't seek personal glory but remains blurred in the background. Just a witness trying to interpret the world's complexity through human beings. The only real protagonists.
Favourite quote
"I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none" (Macbeth, William Shakespeare)
Gurvinder Singh
Contributor
Being an environment lover, journalism has offered me a perfect platform to write on the most pressing issues of nature that are threatening our existence thanks to the mindless assault by human beings. Since donning the hat of a journalist in 2010, I have written on several important topics including the environment, social issues and poverty. Journalism is a passion for me that keeps my inquisitive mind always awake to search something new to awe readers.
Favourite quote:
"Believe you can and you’re halfway there" (Theodore Roosevelt)
Camilla Soldati
Digital Editor
I've always been fascinated by the world of languages because, to me, it means bringing people together. It also offers the precious opportunity of learning new things every day, whilst discovering new cultures and exploring things from new perspectives.
I like travelling, meeting new people, and exchanging ideas. I love strolling with my four-legged friend, the “waldeinsamkeit”, and eating well in good company. I love mountain air, the breath after hiking, the sound of the snow under my skis, and the sound of silence underwater.
Favourite quote: "The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?". (David Attemborough)
Chiara Soletti
Italian Climate Network
Human rights and climate consultant, I've been passionate about gender issues since being denied the opportunity to play football "for being a girl". I collaborate with the Italian Climate Network, coordinating the Women, rights and climate section: I develop awareness-raising and informational activities on the connection between the climate and human rights, and participate in negotiations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as an observer. I've been living in a green corner of London for a few years now, where I work for the Climate Bonds Initiative, a non-profit organisation that promotes investment in fighting climate change.
Favourite quote
"The third world is not a reality, but an ideology" (Hannah Arendt)
Atossa Soltani
Columnist
Founder and former Executive Director of Amazon Watch, Atossa is the Hillary Institute of International Leadership's 2013 Hillary Laureate and serves as the chair of the board of trustees of The Christensen Fund, board member of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs, advisor to the Peruvian organisation, The Arkana Alliance, and advisor to the InterAmerican Clean Energy Institute. Before founding Amazon Watch in 1996, Atossa directed campaigns at the Rainforest Action Network to end logging in endangered ecosystems.
She is currently President of the Board of Directors for Amazon Watch and has been a member since 1997. Amazon Watch is a nonprofit organisation founded in 1996 to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. It partners with indigenous and environmental organisations in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability and the preservation of the Amazon's ecological systems.
Gioia Sottocasa
Contributor
For many years now, I've been working for companies, editors and ad agencies in PR and press office roles, editorial and creative writing, and the creation and production of content for Brand content and Brand storytelling projects.
I think the world is a place full of beautiful stories that still haven't been shared and being able to tell them is a great privilege.
Favourite quote:
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere" (Albert Einstein)
Beatrice Spagoni
Contributor
Fotoreporter e stylist, collaboro con importanti testate e aziende legate al mondo del cibo, dell'arredamento e della decorazione. Mi occupo della realizzazione di servizi fotografici curando la preparazione dei piatti, lo styling, lo scatto e i testi, ispirandomi a reportage e viaggi gourmand. Amo il bello e il cibo è bello, amo mettere le mani in pasta e il cibo è creazione.
Maria Spanò
Grafica
Before I began working for LifeGate I was employed by an Internet Service Provider. I enjoy turning everything into graphics. To me it is important to always create beautiful things, whilst respecting people and the environment. I persist in doing everything on my own and I always test myself because I’m searching for my limits. I love photography but I don’t like being photographed.
Favourite quote:
"Jokingly, we can say everything, even the truth" (Sigmund Freud)
Attilio Speciani
Contributor
Clinical immunologist and allergies specialist, Director of SMA (Servizi Medici Associati) and GEK. Scientific Director of Eurosalus, he was professor of nutrition in Master's in Phytotherapy courses at the Universities of Bologna and Milan. He also practices medicine in the UK and is registered with the General Medical Council, is an active associate of the New York Academy of Science and the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI). His most recent research looks at the immunological aspects of nutrition and the study of inflammatory cytokines in relation to food. In his clinical practice he puts into practice the dialectic between classical scientific medicine and an ample vision of medicine and the human.
Favourite quote:
“The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time” (T. S. Eliot)
Roberto Sposini
Automotive Division Director
Cars, cars and more cars (some of them not so "green", I must confess). As a child my dad would sit me on his knees letting me hold the driving wheel of his Alfa. My grandfather trailed me around in his motorbike (when I was three...), whilst I hugged the Guzzi's tank and was inebriated by the air and petrol fumes. The dream has been repeating itself for years: bringing together journalism and cars, my two great passions. Since 1991 I've been writing about engines on the pages of major magazines (such as the English magazine Evo and the motorcycling one Cafe Racer. Up to the historic magazine GenteMotori, which I had the fortune and honor of directing). It's obvious, I grew up on bread&motors. The relationship we have today with cars and mobility is changing radically. My current challenge is to tell stories of the 2.0 car on LifeGate's virtual pages. This car, little by little, is moving along the trail of innovation and sustainability, trying to conjugate (with much effort...) environmental respect and its primary role: to move people, helping them live and discover the world. I hope it succeeds, whilst saving some of its passion. But we will only discover this together, travelling...
Favourite quote:
“But the true voyagers are only those who leave
Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons,
They never turn aside from their fatality
And without knowing why they always say: 'Let's go!'
Those whose desires have the form of the clouds"
(Charles Baudelaire)
Courtlin Stoker
Contributor
I have lived, worked and made a positive change in eight countries including Honduras, India, South Africa, and the DRC. Through my experiences abroad, working on several different types of projects, I have gained significant insight into the world of international development. Some of the projects I have worked on involve capacity building, youth in development, and women's empowerment. I received my bachelors from University of California, Santa Barbara and recently obtained my masters from the University of Cambridge in Development Studies. My goal is to bring a more sustainable and constructive approach into the field of international development through my expertise in development theory alongside with my practical experience. More specifically, I plan on having a positive impact in the areas of poverty alleviation, community cohesion, women’s empowerment, and sustainable livelihoods.
Favourite quote:
"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others” (Nelson Mandela)
Emanuela Taverna
Senior Project Manager
I’m Senior Project Manager in LifeGate Consulting & Media. I came to LifeGate after working as a professional journalist, culminating in the amazing experience of Expo Milan 2015, where I was a member of the newsroom at ExpoNet, the World Fair’s official magazine. I’ve writtenfor a number of Italian and international media. In LifeGate I coordinate projects, contents and events on the topics I care about most: sustainability.
A true Milanese now in Monza, I don’t trust who isn’t in a rush. I love stories: my passions are cinema, theatre, books and exhibitions. My heart is split between two men – Raffaele and Jacopo – but fortunately I don’t have to choose between them.
Favourite quote:
“For since happiness is man’s last end, it must consist in that which has the greatest hold on man’s affections” (Saint Thomas Aquinas)
Fabio Treves
Creator and Presenter of "Life in Blues"|Creator and Presenter of "Life in Blues"|Creator and Presenter of "Life in Blues"
The father of "BLUESMADE IN ITALY".
2014 was the 40th anniversary year of the Treves Blues Band. LIFEGATE was their media partner, covering 40 years of "devil's music" with consistency and passion. The Treves Blues Band was the first Italian band to introduce a musical genre with distant roots but able to captivate a large public. Celebrations for its 40th year took place in a variety of venues, such as summer festivals, Blues festivals, public venues, schools, universities, radios and televisions. During an intense and lucky 40 year-long career, Fabio Treves and his band have launched festivals and important events for the genre, as well as for quality music in general, borne of a deep passion for and meticulous research into the origins of traditional North American music.
Favourite quote:
"If you want something to be done, do it yourself"
|The father of "BLUESMADE IN ITALY".
2014 was the 40th anniversary year of the Treves Blues Band. LIFEGATE was their media partner, covering 40 years of "devil's music" with consistency and passion. The Treves Blues Band was the first Italian band to introduce a musical genre with distant roots but able to captivate a large public. Celebrations for its 40th year took place in a variety of venues, such as summer festivals, Blues festivals, public venues, schools, universities, radios and televisions. During an intense and lucky 40 year-long career, Fabio Treves and his band have launched festivals and important events for the genre, as well as for quality music in general, borne of a deep passion for and meticulous research into the origins of traditional North American music.
Favourite quote:
"If you want something to be done, do it yourself"
Vinciane Tricoire
LifeGate France
I would define myself as someone curious and always eager to discover new domains, people and places.
Graduated in Business administration, I’ve held various functions in the Energy sector from sales to marketing, audit to digital project management.
My concern for the environment protection has been increasing all along the past years.
I have always felt connected to nature: I grew up by the sea, and the smell of ocean always makes me feel at home. I'm keen on outdoor activities: hiking, ski touring and kite surfing, to mention the main ones.
I've constantly been attracted by travels, since my early twenties when I spent six months in Argentina as a student, until recently when I took a sabbatical year to do a world tour. Travelling slowly and lean definitely cut me off from modern lifestyle, leading me through an inner journey and allowing me to enjoy incredible people and landscapes on my way, along with material simplicity. I saw a lot of breathtaking views as well as I witnessed the excesses of our economic model and its social and environmental consequences.
I'm looking forward to having more impact on the change to be enforced throughout Humanity to face climate change and make life more sustainable for the great number, and I'm extremely happy to collaborate with LifeGate in that perspective.
FAVOURITE QUOTE:
"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world” (Harriet Tubman)
Silvia C. Turrin
Contributor
After a degree in Political Sciences and a Master's in "Didactic History and Communications", I entered the world of journalism as a freelancer, working first with a number of music magazines (including World Music Magazine; Il Giornale della Musica; Jazz Magazine; Etnica), then with magazines that treat African themes and oriental disciplines.
For work and as a hobby I cover conscientious ecology, alternaive life models, well being (with a special regard for natural remedies), nutrition.
I'm a Food Lover, especially of healthy and good food, with a predilection for Provençal and vegetarian cuisine.
I founded the blog provenzadascoprire.info
I'm also a Mindfulness instructor and have published three books, with another that will be out soon and another two which are currently works in progress.
Glorianna Vaschetto
Contributor
After a degree in languages, ,I've been working as a beauty and hair journalist for twenty years. With Ilenia Messina I founded www.bellezzalnaturale.it, a website dedicated to all those who want to share with us a new idea of beauty which is sustainable and green. For a constant and constructive dialogue with whom - like us - believes that a valid alternative is out there, healthier and more natural, to foster beauty respecting our bodies and the environment. Promoting this idea is gratifying, it's a chance to encourage change.
Favourite quote:
"I like people like me, who conserve their beauty in imperfections, in traces of non-conventionality" (Charles Bukowski)
|After a degree in languages, ,I've been working as a beauty and hair journalist for twenty years. With Ilenia Messina I founded www.bellezzalnaturale.it, a website dedicated to all those who want to share with us a new idea of beauty which is sustainable and green. For a constant and constructive dialogue with whom - like us - believes that a valid alternative is out there, healthier and more natural, to foster beauty respecting our bodies and the environment. Promoting this idea is gratifying, it's a chance to encourage change.
Favourite quote:
"I like people like me, who conserve their beauty in imperfections, in traces of non-conventionality" (Charles Bukowski)
|After a degree in languages, ,I've been working as a beauty and hair journalist for twenty years. With Ilenia Messina I founded www.bellezzalnaturale.it, a website dedicated to all those who want to share with us a new idea of beauty which is sustainable and green. For a constant and constructive dialogue with whom - like us - believes that a valid alternative is out there, healthier and more natural, to foster beauty respecting our bodies and the environment. Promoting this idea is gratifying, it's a chance to encourage change.
Favourite quote:
"I like people like me, who conserve their beauty in imperfections, in traces of non-conventionality" (Charles Bukowski)
Joso Vásconez
Contributor
I studied Sociology in Ecuador but what I am really passionate about is music, books and the Internet. I don’t think I could ever survive without my guitar and my books. I am obsessed with challenging pre-set knowledge, in order to improve it and pave the way to a brighter future. For me, there is no definitive truth. There is always something to question, change and expand. Life is fleeting, but I believe it is more than enough to build a better world.
Favourite quote
There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will. (Albert Einstein)
Lorenza Vianini
Energy: Operations Provisioning
I’m in charge of helping clients stipulate their electricity and gas contracts and support them up to the invoicing stage. I love travelling and I alternate visiting mountain and seaside locations. I like reading and listening to every musical genre.
Favourite quote:
"There's a real magic in enthusiasm"
|I’m in charge of helping clients stipulate their electricity and gas contracts and support them up to the invoicing stage. I love travelling and I alternate visiting mountain and seaside locations. I like reading and listening to every musical genre.
Favourite quote:
"There's a real magic in enthusiasm"
Claudio Vigolo
Contributor
I'm a professional journalist, speaker and presenter with a passion for radio.
Editor, presenter and the official voice of LifeGate Radio from the station's founding to 2013. I now collaborate with LifeGate as a freelance journalist and speaker.
Over the years I've been involved in creating, producing and presenting a number of environmental and musical information programmes; as well as radio news programmes, for which I've selected news, conducted interviews and curated their recording and editing.
Previously I worked for Radio 24 – Il Sole 24 Ore as assistant for economic programmes. I received my degree in Business Economics from Milan's Bocconi University, with a focus on the organisation and culture of international business. Among the most notable experiences, I studied diction, acting, dubbing and interpretative reading as well as completing an internship at the Italian Embassy in Cuba after finishing my studies.
At LifeGate Radio I wrote and presented the programmes "LifeGate International", "World Gate", dedicated to world music; worked with Fabio Treves for "Life in Blues" and Ezio Guaitamacchi for a number of episodes of "Rock Files".
Paul Watson
Sea Shepherd
Paul Watson is the founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society – a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting marine wildlife worldwide. Over the years, Captain Watson has exhibited a remarkable diversity in his activism, including:
- Co-founder of Greenpeace in 1972 and Greenpeace International in 1979
- Founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in 1977
- Field Correspondent for Defenders of Wildlife, from 1976 to 1980
- Field representative for the Fund for Animals from 1978 to 1981
- Representative for the Royal Society for the Protection of Animals in 1979
- Co-founder of Friends of the Wolf in 1984
- Co-founder of Earthforce Environmental Society in 1977
- Director of the National Board of the Sierra Club USA from 2003 to 2006
At Sea Shepherd Watson has served as master and commander on seven different ships since 1978. Now he continues to lead Sea Shepherd campaigns to protect defenseless marine wildlife around the world.
“I have been honored to serve the whales, dolphins, seals – and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me. If the whales survive and flourish, if the seals continue to live and give birth, and if I can contribute to ensuring their future prosperity, I will be forever happy.”
Alice Zampa
Contributor
As soon as I obtained my degree in Languages I pursued my dream of becoming a writer and ended up taking on the perfect job for me: as a freelance journalist. I’m curious, outgoing, I have good communication skills, and really put all of myself in what I do. I have the good fortune of writing for LifeGate about two things I really care about: childhood and family. Since I gave birth to Margherita and Giulia I’ve become ever more interested in these topics and now I want to live my life consciously, trying to find the beauty in everything and everywhere.
Favourite quote:
“I’m deeply convinced that every time one has the opportunity of being humorous, it is a social duty to make sure that this opportunity is not lost.” (Carlo M. Cipolla)
Ottavia Zanetta
Contributor
I grew up in a small town on the shores of Lake Orta, I came to London to complete a Master’s degree at the London School of Journalism, after obtaining a degree in Languages and spending a year studying and living in Seville. I like travelling, discovering new music and would willingly lock myself in a cinema. I love art in all its forms, design, and I always carry a novel with me.
Favourite quote
"You need a hometown, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A town means not being alone, knowing that in the people, trees and soil, there is something of yourself, that even when you’re not there it stays and waits for you". (Cesare Pavese)
About Us
LifeGate was founded in 2000, stemming from the experience of Marco Roveda matured over the course of the 1980s with Fattoria Scaldasole, the first company in Italy to enter the large retail market with an organic product.
Ever since, the goal has been to promote a just and sustainable world, in which circularity is the future: like in friendship and love, taking and giving back are the foundations of relationships between people, businesses and the planet. A world in which sustainable lifestyles concern all aspects of each persons’ daily life, defining every individual’s relationship to their own set of values and those of others. A conscientious approach that redefines the concept of progress by taking environmental, social and economic factors into account.
LifeGate is a benefit corporation, considered the point of reference for sustainability in Italy, which brings together a community of over 6 million people interested or passionate about sustainability themes. LifeGate works with passion and determination to share information, projects and services engaging an expanding network of people, businesses, NGOs and institutions that are committed to building a sustainable future.
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Creating the largest international network of information and services for people, businesses, NGOs and institutions working towards a sustainable future. LifeGate wants to be the hub of sustainable innovation, helping companies position themselves, and engage with new generations through environmental and social projects aimed at building a better future.