News from the Earth

The aim is to raise public awareness of the health benefits of fruit and vegetable consumption, promote healthy diet and lifestyle, reduce food waste and food losses, improving food production by making it more sustainable through innovation and technology in line with UN development objectives.

The Covid-19 pandemic has encouraged smart working as a preferred mode of work, where possible, to contain infections by limiting the harmful effec...

Analyses indicate that homes and water treatment stations release microfibres that end up polluting the Arctic. There’s plastic all over our lives.

January is the perfect time to put yourself to the test: it's Veganuary month (a word born from the union of vegan and January, vegan and January), an initiative that helps people around the world to try the vegan diet and lifestyle for 31 days. Participants receive a daily email with information and insights, as well as tasty recipes and tips on how to replace ingredients that contain animal products.

If you own the seeds you own the food system. Access to open-pollinated seeds is the cornerstone of food citizenship because it creates non-market access to growing.

Many car manufacturers are saying goodbye to leather and are switching to natural, vegetable-derived or synthetic materials. From tweed to eco-leather, the new frontier of car upholstery is recycling and sustainability.

The use of land brings a fragmentation of habitats and a loss of biodiversity that tends to increase the possibility of contact with animal species capable of transmitting viruses to which humans are not accustomed. The climate and health emergencies may seem like separate crises, but this is not the case. 

According to a survey by The Economist, Sustainability ranks second among the strategic goals of the global fashion industry, preceded only by increasing customer satisfaction. 60% of the top fashion, retail and textile executives surveyed believe the green turn is crucial to the survival of their business.

We can all strengthen our relationship with nature, even if we live in cities we can find an urban park where we can do physical activity to oxygenate and relax. 

Christmas cardigans and sweaters are among the worst garments produced by fast fashion, because in addition to generating a huge amount of waste immediately after the holidays, they contain a large amount of plastic fibers that increase the pollution of our seas.

More resistant than wood, bamboo has quickly earned the name of vegetable steel. Although its use requires special precautions, including special protection from water and insects, it is a very elegant and ductile material, thanks to which it is possible to create a wide range of architectural and design solutions. In addition, bamboo grows very quickly, and within a few years provides new raw material ready for use. This characteristic makes bamboo one of the so-called Green Building Materials, together with hemp, wheat straw, and earth.

The agricultural sector boasts more than 10% of young people who do business and create jobs in Italy with 7 companies under 35 out of 10 that, in addition to cultivation, have developed activities of product processing and direct sales, educational farm, social farming for the inclusion of disadvantaged people, landscape care and production of renewable energy.