For the "Alberology" column (or better "treeology", from the Italian "alberologia"), I had the pleasure of exploring with forester Antonio De Bona the link that unites trees, and nature more generally, to a discipline that is apparently somewhat difficult...
Art has always been a reflection of reality. The artists express their everyday life with their works, accentuating their particular conditions. The socio-cultural changes (and also climate, now) are reflected in the art that depicts the salient and most...
Since ancient times trees have acquired a special meaning for men, who venerated them for their function of connection between the earthly and the otherworldly dimensions, and worshipped them as true gods. In the woods, man immediately found shelter,...
My research with forester and naturalist Antonio De Bona on the fascinating and mysterious world of trees continues. Today we want to take you on a journey to discover the many symbologies that have for centuries placed the tree...
Contrary to what one might think, the life of trees is not only based on individualism and competition, but also on cooperation and solidarity, as the 20th century French writer and academic Henry Bordeaux also stated with his famous...
We are now - hopefully - out of the emergency phase of the COVID-19 pandemic and have begun what I would dare to call a new 'era', that of the 'green' socio-cultural revolution. All great events in the history...
It is a journey in a camper van starring Gianna, a mischievous "camper girl", and with a crew on board made up of Leone, a cuddly dog, and Paolo Goglio, director and author of the new travelling television series,...
On the occasion of the reopening to the public of the Ethnographic Museum of Friuli, from Friday 7th May to 6th June, two exhibitions will enrich the offer of this important cultural institution of the Municipality of Udine: "Plastica...
Looking for Italy's Cormac McCarthy. The Source, the literary competition that will choose the best Italian climate fiction short stories, is now underway. The initiative, promoted by Gruppo CAP, manager of the integrated water service for the Milan metropolitan...
The call for entries for the 'Screen in Green' competition is now online on the website of the Italian Ministry of Ecological Transition. This is a film and audiovisual competition set up at the instigation of the Ministry for...
