Green Innovation Needs Patient Capital
With no intention whatsoever to instigate legends on private companies, Pavan Sukhdev – interviewed in the last issue of this magazine – claims that the main driving fo...
Excellent Waste
Circular economy 2.0. This is how we could define the new phase of sustainable economy where the developments of the industrial supply chains generating waste are analysed, i.e. the processes that c...
Art that Walks in the World
This story was produced in partnership with FuturePerfect, www.resilience.org/stories/2015-06-08/art-that-walks-in-the-world# Daniel McCormick and Mary O’Brien have received plen...
Textile Mines in Search of An Author
Investing in recyclability planning strategies; increasing the volume of used clothing collection and used clothing resale and the volume of clothing manufactured using recycled fibres: this is GFA&...
Towards a Crackdown on Food Waste
“The problem at this point is that there is a problem.” – Captain Obvious(1) 2012 stands as a turning point. The Zero Hunger Challenge launched by the Secretary-Gen...
Expo's Second Life
Curiously enough, Expo 2015 life cycle is not over yet. Obviously it no longer involves thousands of participants (countries, civil societies and partners) and millions of visitors, but “objec...
Stop Wasting Food!
Manifesto of the Green Economy on Agri-Food for Expo 2015 “Spreading Eco Innovation and Good Practices” Promoted by Italian National Council for the Green Economy Documen...
Circularity Travels on Two Wheels
With a contribution by Luigi Bosio (Engineering Office Manager, Erica Soc. Coop.), Roberto Cavallo (CEO of Erica Soc. Coop.) and Andrea Pavan (Ride Green Project Manager for Eric Soc. Coop.) ...
Unsustainability Trap
According to Ellen MacArthur Foundation, an economic system can be defined as circular when it is able to self-replenish stocks of human, technological, social and natural capital. This regenerative...
New Scenarios
– from our partners – The current financial crisis has inevitably impeached the old mode of economic thought. On the one hand, the failures of the market mechanisms bo...
Biomass: Balance is the Secret
An ideal circular economy is one that, beyond circulating as much as possible materials in the community before giving them back to nature, gives them back paying attention to replenish natural stoc...
Water: A Contended Resource
“Water, water, everywhere, / And all the boards did shrink; / Water, water, everywhere, / Nor any drop to drink”. Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote these lines at the end of the eighteenth c...
Buildings: The Circular Economy's Challenge
This article is featured in Issue #16 (Summer 2015) of Revolve Magazine on pages 68-73, revolve.media/brussels-building-the-future Brussels is known for making its buildings more &ldqu...
Critical Mineral Resources for Renewable Energies in Germany
Contribution to Ecoscienza 6/2014. Challenge The German Federal Government’s energy concept ascribes renewable energies the role of an “important pillar of future energy supply...
How to Turn an Old Sofa into Biofuel
Old furniture, sofas, nappies and bar receipts are solid urban waste. Globally, according to a World Bank report carried out in 2012, we produce 1.3 billion tonnes of it every year. Only 34% is recy...
From Coal to Biomass
The strong presence of the chemical industry (the sixth European country by turnover, according to CEFIC, the European Chemical Industry Council, and first in the world on a per capita basis), with ...
The Soil's Perspective
“On a global scale, our analysis systems show that farmland expansion has reached a point of no return”, these are the words used by Johan Rockström in the interview published in is...
Biobased in the Spotlights
The biobased economy is growing at a steady pace. It represents a large share of the overall European GDP, with €2 trillion in annual turnover, employing over 22 million people. While the growt...
Cardboard Beats Decay
It is one of the areas with the highest population density in Italy. It is an old town centre. It is in Southern Italy, but recycling is working. We are talking about Rione Sanità in the cent...
If the Wolves of Wall Street Become Lambs
Turning the “wolves of Wall Street” – oblivious to any good cause – into lambs at the “planet’s sickbed:” a strenuous, nearly contrived, undertaking. And ye...