French chefs gather in the name of organic cuisine
I cuochi promotori chiedono ai ristoranti di fare la loro parte per difendere l’ambiente, con una cucina che privilegi le produzioni locali e di stagione.
If you scrap your diesel car you’ll save the Arctic
If you have an old diesel car but you care about polar ice, maybe it’s time to buy a new car. Here is why.
Marco Zucchetti, Bee my Future’s first beekeeper: an update
Marco, you are a beekeeper hobbyist, since you actually have another job. Why do you have this passion? Everything started about 10 years ago when I first met a man, a 70-year-old beekeeper who let me discover an amazing brand new world. Thanks to him I decided to attend technical courses in order to learn
Forget about cycling lanes. Now it’s time for duck lanes
Forget about cycling lanes. Now, the new era of sustainable mobility begins with duck lanes. If once drivers should pay attention to cyclists, now cyclists and absent-minded pedestrians listening to music must have consideration of and share the space on British canals with those feathered animals. Many temporary lanes have been painted on
How is nature doing? The news in an EU report
Nella giornata dedicata alla biodiversità, la Commissione europea rivela qual è lo stato di salute della natura.
France, Hollande indicted: he fights for the environment but builds coal plants
A joint report of Oxfam and Les Amis de la Terre accuses France of being “hypocrite: it talks about climate and then it pollutes the Planet by burning coal”.
Watch extraordinary footage of a bee’s first 21 days of life
How do honeybees grow, becoming adult insects? The photographer Anand Varma, together with the laboratory UC Davis dedicated to the study of bees, captured the first 3 weeks of a bee’s life, showing details never seen before. The result is an amazing 60-second time-lapse footage. The video is promoted by National Geographic-Japan, and has been presented by
Damaged pipeline spills 400,000 litres of oil in California
On Tuesday, 19 May, a broken oil pipeline caused an oil spill of about 400,000 litres (105,000 gallons) in Santa Barbara, California. Officials already started removing the oil from rocks and sand, but the bad news is that 80,000 litres (21,000 gallons) are likely to have already reached the ocean. The leak has
Hundreds of kayaks row against Shell in Seattle
Hundreds of environmental activists filled the Elliott Bay, Seattle, United States, on board of kayaks, protesting against the decision of the Dutch oil company, Royal Dutch Shell, of exploring for oil off Alaska during summer. Kayakers formed a chain blockading the port of Seattle’s Terminal 5 in order to impede the Polar Pioneer
Seeds of Time: a documentary to plant the seeds of change
Have you ever heard about the Svalbard Global Seed Vault? It is a storage located in the Svalbard archipelago, Norway, which safeguards about 1 million seeds coming from all over the world, in order to protect them from possible man-made and natural disasters. It is the world’s most important seed bank, guided until 2012 by