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Arts - 18 Gennaio

St. Francis and Giotto: The Saint and the Artist Started the Ecological Movement

Giotto revolutionized art by taking Byzantine iconography and humanizing it. St. Francis’ affinity for the environment influenced the artist Giotto (ca. 1270–1337), who revolutionized art history by taking Byzantine iconography and humanizing it. Giotto’s technique of integrating sacred images into the Earthly landscape was the most powerful form of popularizing religious ideas as illiteracy was widespread and the visual image spoke to the average person.

Train travel is an often overlooked, but wonderful way to travel. Photo: Michael Lepetit

Travel - 23 Ottobre 2019

Traveling “Green”: Hard Truths About Ecotourism and Being Carbon-Conscious

The average round trip flight from New York to London generates about 986 kg (2,173.76 lbs.) of CO2 per passenger; almost as much as some people use in an entire year. As an avid traveler, it forces me to face a truth that I had frequently hidden from: that despite all the ecotourism one can do, it cannot offset the damage done by merely getting to and from your long-distance destination.

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News - 14 Ottobre 2019

Climate Change and International Relations: Cognitive Dissonance of Nations

The informant talks about last month’s environmental issues in the Amazon forest, about the political reactions of world leaders and about the epochal turn that looms over us.

Guide in Amazon rain forest finds water in plants

News - 12 Settembre 2019

Death Comes to the Amazon, But Don’t Blame Nature, It’s Man Who Sets the Fires

In the minds of many, death looms over the Amazon like plague-infested Europe in the Middle Ages. But while drinking from a branch that spewed forth clean water, to me the Amazon was a place of mercy, of life, of survival. Today though, the Amazon is indeed a place cursed with death, not from the man-eating ants of Indiana Jones legends, but of man-made fires in Brazil. Still, while satellites show striking images of entire sections of the rain forest engulfed in flames, I see the life that sprouts up at every inch of the jungle….

Elephant on Zambezi River--Photo: Michael Lepetit

Travel - 6 Agosto 2019

Viewing Animals in the Wild: Lessons Learned and Never Forgotten

I had never seen an African elephant in the wild like this. He was not put here for a show and I was not protected by a safari truck. The grass through which he walked was the same grass I felt on my calves. The bugs the bird ate off his back were the same as the ones flying about my head. For such a large creature, he was silent, except for the sound the reeds made as he snapped them with his trunk.

TREEDOM

Lifestyles - 7 Maggio 2016

For Mother’s Day, Buy her a Treedom

Treedom.net is the only website where you can plant a real tree with a simple click and follow its growth online. The idea came from an Italian startup. We had a chat with its CEO Federico Garcea.

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