In just 35 years it’s estimated that 6 billion people, the equivalent of the world’s entire population in the year 2000, will live in cities. With three quarters of humanity living in urban areas – the largest migration in human history – there will undoubtedly be major stress points. During this time, we’ll have to reimagine
Brazil has taken and is still taking big steps to contain illegal logging and save the Amazon, one of the Earth’s most important natural areas. Deforestation rates dropped by nearly 80% over 8 years, passing from an average of 27,000 square kilometres in 2004 to 5,000 in 2012. A significant result achieved thanks to laws
According to a new study, the conservation of the Brazilian Amazon reduces the incidence of some diseases.
Institutions, cooperatives, and companies producing chocolate team up to achieve a unique result: organic cocoa rather than coca leaves.
Within Milan’s global exhibition, there’s a place exclusively dedicated to organic farming and (agricultural but even non agricultural) biodiversity. It is called Biodiversity Park and it is an area of 8,500 square metres realised by BolognaFiere to highlight the importance of biological diversity as a universal precious thing we must protect everywhere in the world, in Italy
In this Latin American country there is a green university where students learn how to build a future with low environmental impact.
Few and simple rules to get fit in the summer with the help of the wide range of products that nature provides us.
Il surfista cileno, ambasciatore di Patagonia, si batte per proteggere Punta de Lobos e per trasformarla in una riserva naturale per il surf.
São Paulo is turning into a bike-friend city. On 28 June, a new cycle route was opened in Paulista Avenue, São Paulo main road and one of the most famous roads of Brazil, which is also renowned internationally. During the opening of the cycle route, car traffic was closed and the whole lane was reserved to
Cycle mobility is expanding in South America too. Ciclopaseo in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, is a remarkable example of such expansion. Ciclopaseo is a project supported by Ciclòpolis, a local association aiming to foster urban cycle mobility and sustainable transport in Quito. It is a route of 30 km stretching from the north to the
