Cesano is a small town located in the volcanic region of the Sibillini mountains, near Rome. In 1975 Enel discovered a geothermal fluid in the roots of this land that is particularly interesting for...
Lasting and devastating impacts on our society. Massive human losses and economic damage. We are not talking about the war in Ukraine, but the long escalation of humanity against itself linked to cl...
How short is the life of a toy? From The Steadfast Tin Soldier to Toy Story, many storytellers have sung the tale of the ephemeral, however shiny, existence of dolls, puppets and spaceships. From ki...
Chris Patermann is considered the father of the European bioeconomy and is still a central figure in the global bioeconomy community. In this exclusive interview, 10 years after the first Bioeconomy...
Ratti, a company listed on the Milan stock exchange, produces textiles and accessories for luxury and fashion brands. A leader in the realms of design and print technology, with legendary cultural h...
For fashion companies, whether large or small; the switch to the circular economy is inevitable. And the Covid pandemic has sped up the whole process.We’ve read, in its every possible form, that t...
As well as being a country with great designers and couture, Italy has always been the homeland of artisans and companies that can bring to life the ideas and visions of the most prestigious fashion...
Eliminating hazardous substances, reducing raw material consumption and radically changing recycling and also thanks to changes in consumption patterns, fashion brands are making progress in all the...
The Sustainable Products Initiative, included in the new Circular Economy Action Plan and one of the goals of the Green Deal, plans to establish a digital product passport (DPP) that collects data o...
Sanitary masks have been keeping us company for almost two years now. Every day we buy them, we wear them to protect us from the virus, and finally we throw them away when they exhaust their functio...
Five hundred billion tons. That's the amount of resources consumed globally over the past six years, between COP21 in Paris in 2015 and COP26 in Glasgow. The sum was calculated by the think-tank Cir...
We use over 4 billion tonnes of cement each year, and almost 3 billion tonnes of CO2 are emitted to manufacture it. And yet, we cannot do without this material. This is how companies are working to ...
One of the biggest challenges to electrifying a fleet of vehicles — aside from adjusting to the range and limitations of the vehicles themselves — is building up the expensive charging infrastru...
The road to the green economy is paved with geopolitics. A resource like steel makes this even clearer. Inaugurating a new era in transatlantic cooperation, on the sidelines of the G20 in Rome, the ...
“Our waste is our responsibility. Letting waste pollute the environment, end up in illegal dumpsites or in our oceans is a real loss of resources, which are precious for the EU’s transition to a...
“If plastic were a country, it would be the world’s fifth largest greenhouse gas emitter." Thus begins Judith Enck, president of the American NGO Beyond Plastics, in presenting a report with exp...
Climate action needs the circular economy. Jocelyn “Joss” Blériot, director of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, the most active think tank dealing with reducing the use of raw materials, maximiz...
The fight against single-use plastic consumption has never been harder than in the past two years. With the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, the (human) world's hunger for plastic has transformed fr...
The ocean is the largest carbon sink on the planet, and if managed sustainably it can aid in climate change mitigation and adaptation. But its ability to regulate climate is weakened by the direct a...
In the coming years, widespread use of wood in construction could radically change the appearance of our cities. This is the hope of Laudes Foundation, founder of Built by Nature, a new organisation...
