Photos credits: IDDRI In France, the municipal elections on the 28th of June surprisingly brought ecology on the front of the political scene in big cities such as Lyon, Bordeaux, and Strasbourg. In a government practically reluctant to take the climate emergency into consideration and prioritize concrete measures, the electionsRead More →
Monsanto is already world-wide known as the nightmare of farmers, and the developer of the polemical glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide in the 1970s. What the company traditionally does is called genetical and bio-engineering, using gene improved plants to better off the profits and efficiency of agricultural production. It is specialized inRead More →
The world is facing a global health crisis, but wasn’t the planet already sick? While the number of living vertebrates diminished of 60% between between 1970 and 2014, the oil production never stopped increasing (i.e chart below). In August 2018, the global world production passed the 100 billions barrels perRead More →
How has the future of electric vehicles been affected by the on-going pandemic? What could their potential role be in a much needed economic recovery? An article by Simone Cimadomo.Read More →
The symbiotic economy is a term coined by Isabelle Delannoy in her book “Symbiotic economy: Regenerate the planet, the economy and the society” published in 2017. In our series “Unlocking the locked, and the possible”, we are going to meet several concepts the author strongly uses to build herRead More →
A few weeks ago I stumbled across an article that analyzed an articles’ point of view on the benefits of sailing while being a kid. It basically described the benefits of taking sailing lessons while being a young child and adolescent. This sport can help in many ways to formRead More →
The Supreme Court of the United States has begun ruling from home on Monday, March 23, 2020 due to the outbreak of COVID-19 that, according to a recent death toll, has killed more than 50.000 people in the US. Although many eyes are staring at the current crisis, I believeRead More →
This, in my opinion won’t be the usual article that can be found in this blog, it lacks resource as I couldn’t find something fitting just precisely what I’m going to explain and, it just doesn’t want to go anywhere while simultaneously trying going forward. It can be considered asRead More →
Even if the world is so diverse and culturally different we have one thing in common and that is: we are all born free and equal in rights, this is what is said in the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights of December 10th 1948, but is this theory really appliedRead More →
In this academic article, based on Abas Amanat’s Iran, A Modern History (Yale, 2017) I will try to point a few key points in Iran’s modern history, showing how sometimes accidental, sometimes unavoidable events can lead to wide-ranging and consequential upheavals. I am especially interested in history’s inner logic, theRead More →
(Cute Laden) Folks, ya’ll in for a tough read over here. It might get a bit windy and confusing but bear with me. Afghanistan, the Crossroad of Asia, the Graveyard of Empires, land of the Afghanis (which raises the question “Who are the Afghanis?” but honestly, that’s a whole differentRead More →
It is now more than known : the movement that Greta Thunberg launched in August 2018 by sitting in front of the Swedish Parliament is spreading day by day, embracing already the youth and calling for every age, every social background, everyone. On 20th of September, the young Swedish girlRead More →
AICS, “Italian Agency for cooperation and development”, is a public agency that overall promotes international development. The presentation held at the EXCO, an exhibition based on international cooperation, mainly focused on the law 125 that entered into force in August 2014. This law revolutionized the system of international cooperationRead More →
Save the children is an association that was created in 1919. It is one of the largest International Independent Organizations that operates in more than 125 countries. Moreover, it is a non-governmental organization that focuses and intervenes in situations of emergencies and natural disasters. Save the Children does also operateRead More →
The aim of this article is to raise awareness on food allergies and intolerances, in particular to the celiac disease. From the 11thto the 19thof May, the AIC association celebrates its 5thedition of the “national celiac week” (“Giornata Nazionale della Celiachia”). This event is based on sensitizing people on thisRead More →
This year, as every year, the first year students (GG1) had the pleasure to go and visit the “Accademia Aeronautica” in Pozzuoli. The infrastructure is located near the commune of Naples, in an incredible place called Pozzuoli, with a beautiful view of the sea and the three isles Capri,Read More →
March 2019, Rome. Founded in 1992 by the day-dreamer actor and director Dario D’Ambrosi, the one of the “Teatro Patologico” represents a unique and avant-gardist reality: aimed at fostering the meeting between art and psychic diseases, the Theatre imagined by D’Ambrosi considers the encouragement of the free expression of anyRead More →
Part 1: Orange and Blue The griffin and the lion are staring at one another, and their wide mouths give me an idea of hostility and aggressiveness. Their bronze faces still present some golden reflex, symbol of an adventurous past and a mythological nature. The two opponents, facing themselves onceRead More →
How convenient is google? You need to know something, you google it, you find it. It is great, isn’t it? The search engine is so convenient that the term ‘to google something’ was even added to several dictonaries in various languages all over the world. If you think about itRead More →
Geometrical metaphors to explain the liberal and communitarian paradigms and to advance some proposals for a dimensional shift in the relationship between the individuals and the communities. “If you go away from a row, you can still come back into it. A row is an open formation. But a circleRead More →
