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Dalla Campania, dilaniata dai roghi tossici e dagli scarichi abusivi, muove la proposta di Legambiente di restituire dignità al futuro partendo dal nostro patrimonio culturale con Paestumanità, un'iniziativa finalizzata a rilanciare il sito archeologico di Poseidonia-Paestum, colonia greca in provincia di Salerno, coinvolgendo la comunità internazi...
Questa è la Banda musicale più rivoluzionaria d’Italia e da Arezzo sta conquistando l’Europa
di Elena Favilli Questa è la storia del laboratorio musicale più rivoluzionario d'Italia. È la storia di un paese di 5.000 abitanti della provincia di Arezzo che ha saputo trasformare la sua banda in uno degli esperimenti di musica contemporanea più apprezzati al mondo. È la storia di un compositore che ha osato immaginare che persone comu...
Lanciare all’estero le imprese green del Made in Italy: nasce l’Italian council for eco innovation
Incentivare il potenziale innovativo delle imprese green "made in Italy" e darne visibilità anche verso gli investitori e i mercati internazionali. Questo l'obiettivo dell'Italian Council for Eco Innovation, l'Osservatorio Innovazione e Tecnologia per la Green Economy, frutto di un partenariato tra il Ministero dell'Ambiente e la Fondazione per lo...
Developing new strategies to promote the Italian language worldwide
It may be because it sounds like music or because it is the language of one of the most influential literatures in human history, but Italian has been found to be the 4th most studied language in the world in 2014, following English, French, and Spanish. This significant result is something that the Italian government, as well as the insti...
Israeli orchestra honors Italian who saved 5,000 Jews from Nazis
One has to wonder if Steven Spielberg chose the right man to profile in film. Posing as a Spanish diplomat in Hungary during World War II, Italian import/exporter Giorgio Perlasca diverted some 5,200 Jews from extermination camps. (For comparison's sake, Oskar Schindler, the subject of the blockbuster Hollywood "Schindler's List," is credi...
MISSONI HOME Launches Luxury Tableware
The Italian fashion house MISSONI known for its colorful knitwear designs, began successfully making a name for itself in furniture. Now, MISSONI makes its first foray into tableware to expand their Home division. Rosita Missoni founded the MISSONI fashion house with her husband Ottavio in 1953. In 1997, she passed on the fashion side of t...
The Casa Rossa in Anacapri: made for idleness
The Casa Rossa (or Red House) in Anacapri, in the province of Naples, peaks through the memories recorded by Alberto Savinio – a master of Italian literature, although he was born in Athens, Greece – in what became the “Capri” collection, published in 1988 by Adelphi. “Gray sky. Great clouds sweep the top of Mount Solaro. On the road that...
We’re betting on lower taxes, simpler rules to attract foreign investors, deputy minister Calenda says
by Evelina Marchesini The massive presence of real estate firms, local administrations and real estate associations this year at the leading international real estate show MIPIM is already good news. Il Sole 24 Ore Italy 24 asked Economic Development Deputy Minister Carlo Calenda about the Italian real estate market and the new opportunities for f...
L'olio d'oliva solidificato che si spalma come il burro
di Camilla Pisani Dall'università della Calabria arriva una tecnica innovativa per solidificare l'olio di oliva, tramite un processo che si chiama di organogelazione. In questo modo l'olio si potrà spalmare come il burro e arriverà presto sul mercato, a partire dai fast food. Gel Oil è frutto di una rivoluzionaria scoperta nel campo dell'i...
The government bets on export managers to re-launch “Made in Italy”
The temporary export manager project announced last month by the Ministry of Economic Development Federica Guidi is ready to take off. By mid-April, a public recruitment will be launched with the objective of bringing foreign market experts to work at 2,500 Italian companies. This project is part of the extraordinary plan to re-laun...
The next SNIA project in Rieti, Italy: turning a disused industrial plant into the city’s engine of growth and innovation
How many of you heard about Rieti before? Not that many I bet. How many knew that Rieti, the geographic center of Italy (located at less then 80 km from Rome), was founded decades before Rome and gave birth to three Roman Emperors (including the ones who built the Coliseum)? Who knew that Italy's first sugar factory (one of Europe's oldest) was est...
Three Italian sites now part of the UNESCO Biosphere Reserves list
UNESCO has announced in Paris, during the Man and the biosphere Committee meeting, that three Italian sites have been added to the World Network of Biosphere Reserves, those "places where to learn about sustainable development aiming to reconcile the conservation of biodiversity with the sustainable use of natural resources". The three Ita...