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18/01/2021We are thrilled to be part of this year's Virtual Charity Challenge!This is a 5 or 10 km solidarity run (or walk) to support a charity of your choice, including Eliante for the Ambiente group. Once the course has been completed, the organizer of the Challenge Runcard will donate one euro t...+ Read morePromoting
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17/01/2021We are thrilled to be part of this year's Virtual Charity Challenge! It is a 5 or 10 km run (or walk) in solidarity to support a charity of your choice, including Eliante for the Ambiente group. Once the course has been completed, the organizer of the Challenge Runcard will don...+ Read more
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25/03/2020In these days of isolation caused by the spread of Covid 19, our environmental education activities in schools have stopped, and it has become more difficult for everyone to feel in touch in nature. We want to stay...+ Read morePromoting
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30/07/2019The summer break gives the time for making a little bit of clarity on an alleged sentence by the Italian Constitutional Court that would authorize the killing of bears and wolves. This is a misleading interpretation, since the Court does not enter into the level of protection of species.Th...+ Read morePreserving
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04/03/2019High urbanization and intensive agriculture are worryingly fragmenting natural habitats, not allowing species to move around in their environment. This is a widespread condition in different areas of the Po Valley, which undermines the delicate balance between nature and human activities. To stop...+ Read more
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05/10/2018Negotiations for energy and resource efficient products including TVs and fridges will go ahead despite delays, the European Commission confirmed today. Consumers could soon benefit from mammoth savings, but only if EU governments will give them the green light by the end of the ...+ Read moreSupporting
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27/09/2018Together with 54 European organizations we have sent a letter to the President of the European Commission Juncker, the Secretary General of the European Commission Selmayr and the DG Environment, Energy and Growth asking not to postpone the adoption of a package of measures to the next legislatur...+ Read moreFacilitating
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14/09/2018Europe is densely populated - so densely, that many feel threatened by the return of large carnivores such as wolves, bears or lynxes. Wherever they find their way back into landscapes, there are calls for population limits, protection zones and culling programs. “Pathways", an outstanding inte...+ Read moreEducating
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08/06/2018The CLEVER Cities project starts! Milan municipality has been awarded over 2,5 million euros by EU's Horizon 2020 programme for the development of innovative urban environmental regeneration projects, particularly along the railway line between San Cristoforo and Porta Romana. The pro...+ Read moreSupporting
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06/06/2018A free web app will now allow consumers to compare and choose the most energy-efficient home appliances and cut energy bills. A consortium of NGOs has launched a new web app, known as PocketWatt, that tells consumers how much an appliance costs to run, enabling them to compare both the running co...+ Read moreEducating
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23/05/2018The 2018 edition of Bioblitz Lombardia brought to the Monte Barro Park a lot of people and many children who participated in naturalistic excursions and educational workshops. The weekend started on Saturday afternoon, when participants carried out an ant-sampling activity. Then, on Saturday even...+ Read moreEducating
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10/05/2018An enjoyable BioBlitz 2018 thanks to thw events organized by Eliante to discover nature from a naturalist perspective. For the weekend of May, 19-20 we organized a series of experiences that will stimulate the 5 senses of the participants.For more information about possible tour in E...+ Read moreFacilitating
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03/04/2018Yes, the presence of the wolf is a (partial) solution to limit the damages caused by wild boars in cultivated fields. Not because wolves devour dozens of wild boars, but because his mere presence intimidates them to such an extent that they tend to implement escape strategies that have a positive...+ Read moreEducating
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05/03/2018After two years, the Impollina-MI project has come to an end. During the project period we and our partners committed to encourage citizenship towards theoretical and practical activities aimed at favouring the presence of butterflies and other pollinating insects in the city of Milan.Supp...+ Read moreEducating
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development05/03/2018After two years, the Impollina-MI project has come to an end. During the project period we and our partners committed to encourage citizenship towards theoretical and practical activities aimed at favouring the presence of butterflies and other pollinating insects in the city of Milan.Supp...+ Read moreFacilitating
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01/02/2018100 volunteers chosen from over 500 candidates, 9 alpine pastures in the Bergamo Alps, 7 guard dogs and a common goal: improving the coexistence between shepherds and large predators through the mitigation of the risk of possible predations on domestic livestock. The final balance of...+ Read morePromoting
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24/01/2018We publish the interview carried out by Fondazione Cariplo to Chiara Vona, our responsible for the ViNO project: Can you tell us something about the ViNO project?ViNO is a concrete example of how it is possible to reconcile agricultural production with t...+ Read morePromoting
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12/12/2017With the call, we are looking for wineries involved in the accompanying process to define the methods for implementing the "vineyard management protocol for the ecological network in Oltrepò Pavese area". The interventions proposed by the protocol (maintenance of lawn areas, hedges and rows, etc...+ Read morePromoting
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14/11/2017The field studies of the "Vigneti and Natura in Oltrepò" (ViNO) project confirm: Oltrepò Pavese hosts a unique mosaic of environments where viticulture and nature coexist.To maintain this mosaic, coexistence must be transformed into shared management practices among all actors in the are...+ Read moreEducating
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03/10/2017A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR SCHOOLS CHOOSING MONTE BARRO PARKMonte Barro Park participates to the project NATURA IN MOVIMENTO, an educational program promoted by "Parks of Lombardy".The program is aimed at Lombardy schools (childhood, primary, secondary...+ Read moreEducating
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28/09/2017It has been presented on Wednesday 27 september 2017 the Book "Idea - Informatori di Educazione Ambientale" (Idea, Environmental Education Informers). Our Antonio Bossi also collaborated to draft one chapter of the book....+ Read moreFacilitating
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19/09/2017Read the article on http://wilderness-society.org/lets-worry-ungulates-not-wolves/While w...+ Read moreValorizing
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18/07/2017Discover all the proposals of activities for schools and groups at Parco Monte Barro on www.parcom...+ Read morePreserving
biodiversity
11/07/2017A lone wolf has been seen in Ticino Park. From the Middle Ages no wolves has been seen in Italian plains. Wolves are extraordinary indicators of biodiversity!...+ Read moreSupporting
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23/05/2017With the arrival of the hot season, air conditioners are back to the market. Thanks to eurotopten.it it is possible to keep our summer fresh while saving up to 50% on the bill....+ Read more
18/05/2017The EU has been supporting the conservation of our unique and precious natural heritage for 25 years. To celebrate this milestone and mark a quarter century of the EU Habitats Directive and Natura 2000 Network of protected areas, the 21st May is officially designated as "European Natura 2000 Day"...+ Read more
18/04/2017As of March 2017, consumers in selected shops in the UK and Spain have the opportunity to tr...+ Read more
28/03/2017Possibility to subscribe to the project untill the 7 AprilA real experience between sheeps, shepherds, nature and large carnivores! ...+ Read more
17/03/2017Martedì 14 marzo al Parco Monte Barro si è svolta una lezione all’aperto davvero speciale....+ Read more
21/02/2017Read the article by Vlado Vancura on our partner "European Wilderness Society" website...+ Read morePreserving
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03/01/2017The energy labels for household appliances is a well-established reality in our lives as consumers. We know that it is better to buy an A class product than a D class one and that the colour green indicates a low energy consumption. ...+ Read morePreserving
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19/12/2016The ortolan bunting is an important species for agricultural ecosystem because his presence - or absence - helps to immediately understand its health status, thus acting as a veritable "sentinel". In fact, the ortolan bunting is a typical b...+ Read morePreserving
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12/12/2016Excellent news from Brussels: the fitness check of the EU Bird and Habitat Directives ended with a clearly positive assessment. As a result, both Directives will not be neither rewritten ...+ Read moreEducating
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29/11/2016As well as at the Monte Barro Park and Museums of Lecco, our range of environmental education activities widens to Brighiera Briantea Park, where we offer a wide range of proposals for kids of primary and secondary schools who wish to know and explore this protected ar...+ Read morePreserving
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24/11/2016The field studies carried out by the project researchers confirmed that the Oltrepò Pavese constitutes a paradise for butterflies. Only in Oltrepò the community of butterflies consists of 122 species, a...+ Read morePreserving
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18/11/2016The results of the studies carried out by the project naturalists have confirmed that Oltrepò vineyards host animal and plant species of great value, which are an asset to be protected and promoted. 94 s...+ Read moreSupporting
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04/11/2016Green Public Procurement is an effective tool to limit the environmental impact of public administrations and promote methods of sustainable production and consumption. In the last 15 years both the EU bodies and the regional and nation...+ Read morePreserving
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20/10/2016The feasibility study of the Rotaie Verdi (Green Rails) project has been presented at the Urban Center in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, Milan. A possible hypothesis of development of the neglected railways around the city of Milan has been reached through in-the-fiel...+ Read morePreserving
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28/09/2016A summer of green volunteering that got in peaceful touch men, nature and large predators. The first phase of the Pasturs project has successfully ended, which involved 31 people and 5 shepherds working together in the name of environmental protection in order to reduc...+ Read moreEducating
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06/09/2016We organise many educational activities and educational trips at the Regional Park of Monte Barro. The rich list of proposals ranges from the most naturalistic ones to anthropological and historical ones.The a...+ Read moreValorizing
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31/08/2016Saturday, September 3rd at 20:00 we organise "The Night of the Goths", an evening during which stories and traditions of Gote populations living on Barro Mount sorroundigs over 1,500 years ago will be told to the participants. Moreover, it will be an opportunity to lea...+ Read morePreserving
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15/06/2016Thirty-five volunteers, five shepherds and an extraordinary environment to be protected and enhanced. The collaboration among volunteers and sheperds has officially started, with the double goal to implement a series of measures to mitigate the risk arising from large predators and to encourage a...+ Read moreSupporting
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01/06/2016The Topten project launches an online survey from its website www.eurotopten.it to ask its visitors to assess the quality of the site and allow us to improve....+ Read morePreserving
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16/05/2016The alpine pasture season is coming and the Pasturs project has just finished training courses dedicated to pastors and volunteers who, in the coming weeks, are going to work together to implement a series of measures aimed at mitigating the risk t...+ Read morePreserving
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27/04/2016The Ambrosiano project, which aimed at designing a feasibility study to improve the ecological connectivity between the Alto Milanese Park and the Ticino Park, came to an end....+ Read moreSupporting
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11/04/2016ANCI Lombardia, Eliante and the Department of Energy of the Politecnico di Milano have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for energy efficient purchases in the Public Administration. The goal is to spread among the municipalities of Lombardy region useful pro...+ Read moreSupporting
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30/03/2016Dishwashers, washing machines, hobs, ovens and TV sets: how to choose the best and the most efficient appliances and how to use them in the cheapest way? Help comes from Topten, whose goal is to provide consumers and large purchasers (public and private) with a pr...+ Read moreEducating
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15/03/2016Eliante and Legambiente Lecco bring Monte Barro Park to "Fa' la cosa giusta!", the largest fair dedicated to critical consumption and sustainable lifestyles.The collaboration between Eliante and Legambiente Lecco led inside the Park ...+ Read morePreserving
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23/02/2016Man and animals, shepherds and large carnivores; Orobie Alps communities say they are ready for a new coexistence. The credit goes to Pasturs, the project led by Eliante with the partnership of Orobie Bergamasche Park and WWF Bergamo-Brescia, the collaboration of Coldi...+ Read morePreserving
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14/02/2016The "Remote Areas for Bears" project had as main goal the identification and study of quiet areas suitable for colonization by female bears in their westward expansion from Trentino to the Western Alps.The pro...+ Read morePreserving
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04/02/2016With an overwhelming vote (592 in favor, 52 against), the European Parliament has spoken in favour of strengthening and implementing the Habitats and Birds Directives, two key Directives that design the necessary legal framework for the protection of b...+ Read morePreserving
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25/01/2016An effect of the barbed-wire fences built by some European countries to curb the flow of migrants from Syria, Iraq and other countries is the fragmentation of important habitats for endangered species such as bears, wolves and lynx. This is causing a double suffering f...+ Read moreEducating
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11/01/2016There are many innovations awaiting students who are going to visit the museums of the city of Lecco and who choose the Monte Barro Park for their teaching experience. Our activities have just started with a laboratory about rock paintings, which is one of the laborato...+ Read morePreserving
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23/09/2015GreenCity is an event taking place from 2 to 4 October throughout the city of Milan. Its goal is to promote all those experiences aimed at making Milan greener. In several parts of...+ Read moreEducating
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15/09/2015The school year has just begun and we are ready to start as well with our environmental education program at Parco Monte Barro.The range of proposals is very broad; it ranges ...+ Read moreValorizing
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09/09/2015In addition to environmental education activities, Mount Barro is also a charming tourist destination. There are two proposals that we offer: A mountain of biodiversity: the park is characterised by ...+ Read moreEducating
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31/08/2015Also this year we participate in Festambiente, an event taking place from August, 31th to September, 6th at Monte Barro Park, Galbiate (LC).In particular, on Saturday, 5th from 2 to 5 PM we will pr...+ Read moreEducating
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16/06/2015Sunday, June, 21st, in the frame of Ambrosiano project, we organize a bike ride to discover the natural treasures and the critical points of the ecological corridor between Alto Milanese and Ticino parks. Bicycle is indeed the ideal means to discover and appreciate the importance of ecological co...+ Read morePreserving
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09/03/2015Implemented thanks to the contribution of the Cariplo Foundation, the project has led to a feasibility study designing a local ecological network between the Adda and Lambro rivers, passing through the Monte Barro Park.Ecological netwo...+ Read moreSupporting
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09/02/2015According to a research made by Coolproducts, halogen bulbs (the less efficient on the market) are still sold by leading manufacturers throughout Europe such as "green".Halogen bulbs consume about 10 times more of the best LED bulbs on the market. In fact, if we look at th...+ Read morePreserving
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20/01/2015After the first year of work the Ambrosiano project has given its first results. They represents the basis for designing the final feasiblity study, which will list the needed actions meant to improve the ecological connectivity between Ticino Park and Alto Milanese Park. ...+ Read morePreserving
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18/12/2014In the past, the use of geographic information systems (GIS) was usually relegated to very specific areas. Nowadays, GIS systems are entering more and more into our daily routine, just think of smartphone applications, spatial tags of social networks and satellite navigation syst...+ Read more
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29/10/2014With the end of summer the monitoring of flora and fauna in the wetlands of the Groane Park ended as well. The findings have been presented to the public on October 28th, 2014 at the Park’s headquarters. THE IMPORTAN...+ Read moreEducating
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17/09/2014The naturalistic study along the Green Rails has been finished by our experts. It investigated the potential of the project area in terms of planti and animal species richness.The resulting scenario laid the basis for formulating management proposals and for building proje...+ Read moreEducating
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16/07/2014The new Rural Development Programme (RDP) has to take on several challenges related to the ongoing environmental and social changes and has the opportunity to do so in a sutainable and innovative way. The quality of Lombardy agriculture and farming is crucial for the presence and maintena...+ Read moreSupporting
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30/06/2014Improving European consumers’ behavioural habits in terms of energy consumption has the potential to make EU save millions of €. In a nutshell, this is the result found by Opower, a company specialised in providing services to utilities. The basic idea is simple as it is revolutio...+ Read morePreserving
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26/05/2014Expansion and maintenance of wetlands, containment of alien species and improvement of the northwest corridor of Lombardy’s Regional Ecological Network (REN) are the main actions of the project "Improvement of Groane Park ecological network" that in the next two years will implement con...+ Read moreEducating
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30/04/2014Something important is happening within the Sustainable San Siro project. After months of meetings and technical talks among the involved stakeholders, the project consortium (consisting of Eliante, Ecoistituto Lombardy and WWF Italy) signed with M.I. Stadio (the company managing the San Siro) a...+ Read morePreserving
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18/04/2014The goal of the project is to enable species migrating northward through a corridor between Northern Appenines and Western Alps in order to make them adapt to climate change. The two mountain ranges meet at the border between France and Italy, between the Rhone valley, French Riv...+ Read morePreserving
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08/04/2014The European elections are approaching and we tried to understand how Europe has helped us to protect the environment more effectively than we could have done as a single state.It all started with two key directives: the Birds Directive (79/409/EEC) and the Habitats Directive (92/4...+ Read morePreserving
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26/03/2014Maintaining and improving an important ecological corridor that connects the Alps of Lombardy to the Po Valley. This is the goal of the project "The ecological connectivity of the Brughiera Briantea", funded by the Cariplo Foundation and that brings together the Lombardy Foundati...+ Read morePreserving
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10/03/2014Connecting Lombardy’s natural areas through the maintenance and improvement of a east-west "natural highway" in the territory north-west of Milan. This is the goal of the project "An ecological corridor between Alto Milanese Park and Ticino Park" that in the next two years will produce ...+ Read morePreserving
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25/02/2014The 2013-2014 Italian presidency of the Alpine Convention, with the support of the Permanent Secretariat and in collaboration with Eliante and Legambiente Lecco organises a public workshop entitled "An infrastructure for green growth: the potential role of European alpine forests in the G...+ Read moreEducating
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20/02/2014Biodiversity conservation is a challenge that can ben took by each of us. At home and at school, during a trip and doing shopping, each of us can contribute to the protection of species and habitats by a sustainable use of natural resources and a responsible lifestyle in order to...+ Read moreSupporting
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07/02/2014It was a great adventure. After the article published in December about our work in the Baringo area (Kenya), we have not spoken anymore because we started a hard work and we literally disappeared inside Mau forest. MAU FOREST: BEAUTIFUL AND THREATENED...+ Read moreEducating
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03/02/2014At the beginning of this adventure, managing the whole environmental education and responsible tourism activities of a park was a task that made us on the one hand a little frightened, but on the other hand very stimulating.The work has given encouraging outcomes. Concerni...+ Read moreSupporting
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renewables
22/01/2014The result of the negotiations that took place at the European Commission (EC) on the new target to reduce carbon emissions and increase renewable energy production by 2030 has been released today.According to the EC, the 27 EU countries will have to produce at least 27% of its ene...+ Read morePreserving
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07/01/2014It is widely recognised that one of the major threats to biodiversity conservation is habitat fragmentation. Even the International Union for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN) asserts that an approach based only on protected areas is not enough to guarantee an effective preservation of speci...+ Read more
20/12/2013Eliante's blog goes on holiday, we come back on January.Best wishes from Eliante's staff....+ Read moreEducating
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10/12/2013The first year of the project has passed by between accelerations and sudden brakings, optimism and pessimism, between the belief that we can actually contribute to make one of the world's most important sports facilities more sustainable and the lack of confidence that the immensity of the task ...+ Read moreSupporting
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03/12/2013Last week was devoted almost entirely to a workshop with a group of 20 informants from Marigat and Salabani (the area south of Lake Baringo) chosen by the Necofa’s colleagues. It was a very interesting and formative experience for us. PARTICIPATORY MAPPING...+ Read moreSupporting
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28/11/2013Here things are going fine.The start was slow, we lost a few days doing little, stuck in a Nakuru’s hotel. But soon after, me and Adrien departed to the study area, Lake Baringo and the arid savannah that surrounds it, where the work started at a stagg...+ Read moreEducating
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20/11/2013According to a recent report released by the World Bank, over the past 10 years the economic losses caused by extreme weather events have risen to nearly $ 200 billion per year; moreover, they are going to grow further with the intensification of climate change. A group of United...+ Read moreSupporting
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13/11/2013The 19th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change has just started in Warsaw, Poland. This conference is expected to design a path that should lead to a binding international treaty that will limit greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate climate change effects. T...+ Read morePreserving
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05/11/2013A year has passed since the beginning of the project and we can display the first positive results, especially regarding the protection of one of the last Alpine wild rivers, the Tagliamento. Today the Tagliamento is less lonely than one year ago; in fact, thanks...+ Read moreValorizing
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24/10/2013There is a sort of analogy between fair trade and responsible tourism in terms of start and recent evolution. Whenever fair trade is mentioned, we start thinking of products coming from the other side of the world, such as coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar and spices. We use these products on...+ Read moreEducating
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14/10/2013Sustainable cooking: we hear so much about it, but do we really know what is it? How can we put its principles into practice? To answer these and other questions and to give many practical tips on how to make our menu as sustainable as possible, we are organising a party together with La ...+ Read moreEducating
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18/09/2013The European Commission has opened a public consultation on a new proposal for a directive on access to justice in environmental matters, which is open to all citizens, organizations and public bodies. The deadline is 2013, September, 23rd.This consultation is important fo...+ Read moreEducating
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12/09/2013The public garden between Ciconi street and Zurich street (Milan) is felt like a garden of their own by the inhabitants of the neighborhood. Thanks to the project "...+ Read moreEducating
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03/09/2013The school year is starting and, together with it, the environmental education activities organized by Eliante at Monte Barro Regional Park. The range of activities is very wide and gives pupils, young people and adults the opportunity to enjoy the park 365 days a year. Everybody...+ Read morePreserving
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10/07/2013It is widely recognised that one of the main threats to species and habitat conservation is fragmentation. Even the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) confirms that the protected-area approach is constraining because it does not allow a real connection among species...+ Read more
03/07/2013In the last few days we read some encouraging news about Obama administration's commitment to environmental issues. First, Obama’s speech about the Climate Action Plan (CAP) to address climate change, then the support to African people and institut...+ Read moreEducating
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21/06/2013The degradation of urban spaces is a common problem in many cities, also Milan. Not only urban blight makes cities uglier and less liveable, but it has a considerable economic cost as well. According to AMSA (the public company managing Milan’s waste collection and disposal), a...+ Read moreSupporting
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12/06/2013The U.S. government has just updated its estimates concerning the impact of carbon emissions on economy. According to the latest report drafted by a working group in close contact with the White House, the previous estimated costs were too low from 50 to 100% depending on the year and the...+ Read morePreserving
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05/06/2013We would like to revive an old Marina Trentin’s post; she is an Eliante’s member and one of the first who have believed in Green Rails project since 2011. We are publishing it because it is nice to think that even the most impossible dreams, if pursued with perseverance and dete...+ Read more
28/05/2013The melting of Alpine glaciers, and Lombardy’s ones in particular, is reality. Another confirmation comes from the Italian Glaciers Inventory made by the Department of Glaciology of the University of Milan, in collaboration with EvK2Cnr and A2A.According to the data, glaciers are...+ Read moreSupporting
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22/05/2013In 2008 the European Union (EU) ratified the "20-20-20" directive, with the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 20%, increasing to 20% renewable energy quota and increase energy efficiency by 20%, all by 2020. However, the EU realised the impossibility to reach those targets. In order to...+ Read moreEducating
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15/05/2013Taking advantage of the conclusion of the meetings organised in the frame of "Menu Friends of the Planet" project, we would like to offer a small "compass" useful to guide ourselves in the sustainable food world. In fact, during the meetings we realised that consumers easil...+ Read moreSupporting
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07/05/2013Designing international development cooperation (IDC) projects that, besides addressing poverty and promoting social and cultural development, take into account biodiversity preservation and responsible use of natural resources. This is the objective of the agreement reached between Eliante and A...+ Read moreEducating
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02/05/2013Eliante and Legambiente Lecco have won the call for bids issued by Monte Barro Regional Park concerning the management of the accommodation facilities, the organisation of environmental education activities and the tourism promotion of the Park’s Hermitage. Thanks to the suppo...+ Read morePreserving
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22/04/2013Making a linear park out of railways and railyards in Milan, where the concepts of public green and wild nature could live side by side. This is the ambitious goal of Green Rails, a project involving Eliante, the Municipality of Milan and WWF Italy and supported by Cariplo Founda...+ Read moreSupporting
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09/04/2013Today we would like to take apart the story telling that renewables benefits too many subsidies from governments. The recently released International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) report Energy subsidy reform: the way forward gives interesting insights of the budgets of 176 co...+ Read more
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this is the first article of Eliante’s blog. We decided to open this space the day we noticed that our site reflected our slogan (ideas, projects and actions for the environment) only in part: there were projects and actions, but no ideas. We realized that it would have been ...
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