During the pandemic, lockdown people are forced to stay home to prevent any risk of spreading or contracting the Coronavirus. Thus, many stores are closed, including libraries and bookstores, and a lot of workers stayed home, doing their job remotely if possible, as well as many children, which cannot go to school. But what about…
Do you know how much water is used to make the pants you are wearing? The clothes that we buy and how we dress is not a simple choice. When we dress up, we are also wearing all the materials and the resources used to produce our clothes. The challenge for making fashion more sustainable…
Sea level rise is a phenomenon caused by the melting of the glaciers and partly attributable also to the warming of the surface oceans. Ocean and sea levels from all over the world are growing and this process is becoming faster and faster. Between 1991 and 2019 oceans have risen about 75 mm and the…
The Wildlife Recovery Centre Monte Adone, in the province of Bologna, was born in 1989 at the initiative of Rudi Berti, his wife Mirca Negrini, and their young daughter Elisa. Initially thought as a centre for the recovery of the autochthonous wildlife, in November of the same year it starts also the hosting of exotic…
Ever since the first vehicle rolled onto the streets in 1886, the world has had a love-hate relationship with the motor car. Today, with over one billion motor vehicles on the roads around the globe, it sometimes seems as if we cannot escape the pollution, noise, and danger that they produce. The car-free day is…
The Fair-Trade is a form of commerce based on dialogue, respect, and fairness, which focuses on the achievement of bigger equity between the North and the South of the world through international commerce. It wants to reach a fair price and at the same time ensure the territory safeguard, avoiding the maximization of profit developed…
Oxford Omnia is a transnational NGO born in 2017 thanks to Oxford University student Elena Bernini, who wished to give something back to the Vietnamese village where she was born and raised before being adopted by an Italian family. That is how the “Matteo Bertero English Centre” came into existence. This is an English school…
On the 9th of October 2020, in Oslo, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize to the World Food Programme (WFP), a historical result for the largest humanitarian organization which fights hunger by fostering peace. As we all know, hunger and food insecurity are the worst enemies of the poorest…
On Tuesday 1st December 2020, #GivingTuesday, the world’s largest giving movement, will hold its annual celebration. Born in 2012 as a day encouraging people to do good and come together to “give back”, this movement has expanded over the years in 55 countries: it became a true inspiration for millions of people across the world!…
Every October 16th, since 1979, is celebrated the “World Food Day”, founded by the member countries of the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations). This year, in the occasion of this day, the Ong CEFA (that deals with promoting people’s self-development), together with the Caritas of Bologna and the Bologna City’s patronage,…
