Greenpeace calls for total ban on neonicotinoids in agriculture
Un nuovo studio conferma la nocività dei pesticidi neonicotinoidi per le api. Greenpeace ne chiede la messa al bando per tutti gli impieghi e tutte le colture.
Sustainer homes, the self-sufficient house respectful of the environment
Building a house that generates the hydraulic and electrical energy it needs to be completely self-sufficient is finally possible. That’s what a team of Dutch researchers demonstrated by starting the Sustainer Homes project, the container house exclusively fuelled with renewable energy. It’s a mobile house of 30 square metres realised thanks to the recycling
Mexican quinoa salad
This quinoa salad with Mexican scent makes us think we are still on holiday.
Rhassoul, a secret of beauty
Cosmetico naturale a base di argilla, il rhassoul si rivela un efficace rimedio per chi ha pelli impure e capelli grassi.
The road to happiness (the most beautiful, not the fastest one)
A group of experts is creating an algorithm that can calculate, according to the users’ photos and comments, the most pleasant and interesting itinerary, rather than the one usually suggested by GPS devices and applications.
Indian cuisine, well-balanced flavours
Ayurveda, one of the most ancient types of folk medicine, includes a theory on nutrition based on six fundamental flavours and three kinds of individual temperaments. The six flavours are sweet, sour, salty, bitter, pungent and astringent; the three types of dosha are Vata, Pitta and Kapha (or a combination of these) and are generated
Plum pie
La crostata di susine è una ricetta semplice da preparare. E’ perfetta a colazione.
Co-sleeping: why babies benefit from sleeping in their parents’ bed
Authoritative studies demonstrate that mother-baby co-sleeping is beneficial for newborns. Provided that the parents agree with it.
COAL, the French partnership between art and sustainability
Although art is free and unconditional par excellence, it can focus on specific areas of interest or cooperate with other disciplines or branches of knowledge. Therefore, it can be used as an effective tool for supporting an inter-disciplinary culture of ecology , as it’s being happening in France since 2008 with the initiative of the
Stephen Orlando, the photographer who captures music on a film
Stephen Orlando, a photographer based in Ontario, has always devoted himself to capture movement on a film through time and space, as if he was obsessed by it. So, in his last project Motion Exposure, he found a way of catching the movements of sound by photographing music. In effect, Stephen, by using LED lights carefully