Reworking with additions to the text of P.R. Ehrlich Global change and its influence on biodiversity (R.Casagrandi & P. Melia (Eds) Proceedings of the XIII National Congress of the Italian Society of Ecology, Como, 8-10 September 2003. SItE Acts 27: 35-45). The article begins with a reference to the impressive […]
Ecotonal spaces: spaces that Nature uses to connect different ecosystems, spaces that express new characteristics and which stimulate selection to give rise to new species. The Green World Café (GWC), a pleasant space for discussion, starting from the classical definition, extends the idea of the connection between ecological systems and […]
Earthgardening, making the Earth our garden. Take care of it as if it were our every corner, to find it more beautiful and to enjoy it as long as possible. But … how can we deal with the whole planet? Yet it is simple, just try to live in harmony […]
To define the current era, the term “Plasticene” has been proposed: plastic fragments throughout the world are continuously detected in oceans, soil, sediments and air. Just to have an order of magnitude, according to a recent study conducted by the University of Pisa, the amount of microplastics on Italian beaches […]
…. Thus amidst this immensity lies my thought: and TO shipwreck is sweet to me in this sea. Giacomo Leopardi’s twenty-one-year-old sea, however, was not water, it was the representation of that infinity that was the silence, the eternal, with which the poet measured the reasons and absurdities of life. […]