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In the vibrant and often chaotic debate driving the Italian and European ecological transition, much of the media and political attention tends to focus on large infrastructure, such as colossal offshore wind farms or mega-factories for electric vehicle batteries, frequently neglecting what is, in fact, the true Achilles’ heel of our climate footprint: the building stock. Ita...

In the vast and complex landscape of the global ecological transition, the debate almost exclusively focuses on large manufacturing industries, multinational energy corporations, or individual consumer choices, often neglecting a silent but absolutely vital actor for the resilience of our communities: the Third Sector. In Italy, hundreds of thousands of non-profit entities, s...

In the unceasing vortex of modernity, the very concept of “work” has undergone, over the last decade, a genetic mutation that has dismantled secular dogmas. What was once a physical place to go to daily—the office, the factory, the glass and concrete building—has progressively dematerialized, transforming into a state of being, a digital flow that crosses time zones and creep...

With the arrival of the warm season and the inevitable rise in temperatures, the conditioned reflex of most consumers is to lighten their clothing, physically pouring into shopping malls or virtually onto e-commerce sites to update their wardrobes with fresh, colorful, and seemingly harmless garments like cotton t-shirts, light viscose dresses, or denim shorts. However, behin...

Advanced technologies patented by Italian researchers from ENEA and CNR are transforming the end-of-life of electric vehicles into a strategic urban mine, allowing the ecological recovery of critical metals and ensuring the full independence of the European automotive supply chain without weighing on the ecosystems of the Global South. The global transition towards electric m...