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" Florence I would like to "by Giovanni Rodella

In anticipation of the day dedicated to Florence and promoted by the new City Council, and gladly receive public a letter from John Rodella, an activist of the Friends of the Earth away from 1998.
John, a professional photographer, kindly gave us some of his photos, which we publish in support of the article, taken in the city and unfortunately shows what he says.

"Dear Michael, I'm glad
's initiative" Give a kiss to Florence "carried out by' current mayor, which allows me to make some considerations. The first is, I think, to awaken in us the" sense Civic "dormant now forgotten by many previous administrations: one of the involvement of all citizens, in other words those who would like a city, (our) most 'liveable and who will fight sincerely against the deterioration now it' s obvious a few years ago, enough to make us feel powerless in the face of prevailing laxity, often due to not taking account of the few forces that had a glimmer of initiative "to do"!
You know better than me, in attempts to make us promoters, when ten years ago we started with the 'Councillor then to' Environment Sergio Paderi with the implementation of "Environmental Watch" in the Florentine squares, in gardens, for " Forte Belvedere "for the" Loggia dei Lanzi "All the Real and the District Councils.
We had some little experience, then, but we wanted to start another path that seemed to say, "come out" even by those places in our members to be vigilant, to see the document and not to solve problems along the streets, sidewalks, trails those related to mobility 'light (pedestrians and bicycles). The first of our association and the Environmental Surveillance intended only make "recommendations" to the authorities, especially the Municipal Police, which at first we could find available, (remember the detachment of Porta Romana) with specific verification of abandoned motorbikes, ferrous scrap bike abandoned both in racks and on sidewalks, potholes in the pavement or asphalt missing, dead pigeons, fountains, dirty, dog faeces and not, flowerbeds trampled by various camps, road signs damaged or no longer 'readable etc ...
Unfortunately, all this hard 'little ... Maybe we gave annoy someone or felt that there claims the right to services that were commonly delegated to the traffic police, or those were too many "reports" that the city could not support? It 's so we were deprived even of what the historical site that was for us a very important observation in piazza S. Spirit given to us in that command of the brigade in a free loan. When I arrived in Florence in '85 Mantua, everything seemed fine, palaces, churches, ancient streets, I say to everyone: a city on a' man. I chose this city ', not for work (though they possessed one) and even to love someone.
I was bewitched by his light colors of its landscape, its hills e. .. also the sense of freedom that a single life I could give.
Sometimes during the 'year came to visit my mother and I remember that she went to visit museums, churches and then wander through the old streets of downtown. And I invite you to observe all that for me was the "beautiful" once told me: "But if I look in the air I do not see where you're going!" A safe distance of time I realized (now that my mother has disappeared and I have a few more years'), the difficulty of walking on uneven streets and sidewalks ... and girotondi between a bike and Gymkhana on allucchettata (already) narrow sidewalks or scooters on pedestrian crossings. And if you go by bike you can not go to that nonsense as the "sense right "it just gives the motorized vehicle, as if riding a bike in the center was a sport for someone to time wasters who have nothing to do. A cyclist has to pay attention to a myriad of details including the coach of tourists lost if air always take it very comfortable. so long now I enjoy more 'this city, I try to leave the house as little as possible ... What a shame! I thought something had improved over the years and yet it is precisely those "little things" that contribute to improving the quality of life that make you feel those who live in the heart a person is "lucky" that had been distorted.
with you Michael about these things we talked about it many times, but now I want to once again to express confidence in this new council, because the hope and the only thing I have left. I believe that many Florentines have left the old town to build a new home elsewhere, beyond the boulevards or in other metropolitan suburbs, for the reasons described above, because they understood that we live a bit more 'outside the village and interest (the houses in the center are too expensive!). Today the town is mainly inhabited by a humanity that pout pourry various exploits Florence for their own ends, but that often does not love her. This we can easily be found by looking at doors, the shutters, the sidewalks of homes often dirty, from which we get only a sense of abandonment. We see from 'misuse where waste bins are placed are not compatible, the rudeness of patrons of nightclubs that until then 'alba do not make you sleep, why come out of these, continue to speak out loud as if the decibels of the music were still present there, for not to mention the fact that makes the 'alcohol, urinating anywhere, leaving dirt everywhere. The times, we know, have changed and it is right to pursue the fashion to have the SUV or large-displacement motorcycles darting at night in the streets of Florence, just because it is especially important to "show" and "own" more 'to appreciate the world around us.
You can tell from this tourism "hit and run" where no one is prevented from bringing home some souvenirs, and when I see the "junk" or those ugly posters that make up the carpet in the center, where almost no image as Florence is concerned, I feel defeated by the culture of bad taste. To observe the tourists taking pictures without looking first, (because if so then they will see on the PC at home), it seems to me that we have lost the sense of emotional admire to know.
And, as a result of your post on the issue "rounds" to your blog: http://chepianetafaremo.blogspot.com/2009/07/tra-ronde-e-intendenti.html are d 'agreement that we can , we must react against a reaction that we recognize as instrumental to a more 'police (see the name) with a form of environmental surveillance as the 'we understood we had to first in the late nineties and that reminds me of the "Hells Angels" in Milan where even the "diversity" and minority groups (such as immigrants or homosexuals) are considered of these groups committed to solidarity. Here, it is from this basis that I would go to anti-discrimination even try to turn back to Florence a liveable city. "
Love, John Rodella

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Effecorta, a sale of all products on tap


The area could only be that: Capannori, the first town in Tuscany in 2008 to have achieved and exceeded the considerable share of 60% of collection and where it has long been the practice for domestic waste collection system called the "Porta a Porta."
The forward-looking administration of this town in the Province of Lucca has set itself the goal of becoming by 2020 a "zero waste town" and is also in this context that the initiative was born Effecorta.

This is the first shop in Tuscany and one of the first of its kind in Italy, which markets products that are on tap: wine, oil, beer, cereals of all kinds, as well as detergents and dairy products like cheese and dairy products. Already on sale are more than 100 different products on tap. But not only. How did
kindly explained Peter Angelini, one of six founding members of the cooperative at the head of this beautiful entrepreneurship: "All products purchased from us come from short chain, or from companies that produce them to no more than 70 km away from Capannori."
"Among the goals we have set ourselves is also what - Angelina continues to offer our customers the opportunity to purchase a product in the quantities that need really to each family and not to those which often require us to market and supermarkets and bargain always reusing the same container.

According to a survey Federconsumatori choosing instead of packaged products on tap, an average Italian family can save more than € 700.00 per year.
goes without saying then that this type of spending, removing cartons, bottles, and in general most of the packaging is not only cost-effective but prevents the production of a good chunk of our household waste and therefore pollute less.

In the future, the creators of Effecorta would be able to open several new stores of its kind in Tuscany and the wish to do them is what they really can do it.
Effecorta at the point which is located in Viale Europa, 224 loc. Marlia (Capannori - Lucca) was also activated an ATM environment where you can get all the useful information on new sustainable technologies, installation of photovoltaic panels on tax breaks.

For more info visit the website at : http://www.effecorta.it

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Oslo bus to bio-methane from solid waste human


The key to the ' clean energy? It can also pass on our poo ...
And 'what is going to do the city of Oslo in Norway.
Oslo, which it aims to become one of the capitals most environmentally sustainable the world (target: zero emissions by 2050), decided to follow the path of starting production of biomethane from its two sewage treatment plants and then use it as fuel for its 80 municipal buses.
The biomethane is biogas produced through a refining process that leads to a rate of about 95% purity, which has enabled it to be used as fuel for motor vehicles.
also a common landfill of municipal waste normally produces biomethane. The only difference is that in this case, its share is around 45%, too low to be used as fuel for vehicles, but still good enough to be burned to produce heat or electricity. In our case instead of the high proportion of the biogas is achieved through a controlled process in the absence of oxygen and that this is called anaerobic digestion.
A series of micro-organisms decompose any organic compound (human waste, kitchen waste, green waste, slaughterhouse waste, etc..) Producing precisely CH4, or methane.
Set up a production facility like this is not, to date, very economical. However, the accounts at hand, the product should be obtained to cost about 40 euro cents per liter less than the cost of a liter of diesel (0.75 € for biomethane against the current price of about € 1.15 a liter of diesel Norway).
The immediate benefits will be:
- will be intercepted much of the approximately 17,000 tons of CO2 that would otherwise have been produced through the incineration of the same waste
- each of the 80 buses will avoid placing itself in ' air about 44 tonnes of CO2;
- besides being neutral for the emissions of CO2 to the combustion of biogas produces 78% less nitrogen oxides, 98% less particulate matter than burning diesel oil, without considering the low noise of the same vehicles;
Contrary to bioethanol from grains and plants, biomethane has the added advantage of not affecting the food resources, or require the use of fertilizers and water.
close with a rather significant figure: a city like Oslo (250,000 inhabitants) is able to determine thus fuel sufficient to take a year to each of its 80 bus adapted around 100,000 km. Without the proper proportions
a city like Milan, with more than 1,300,000 inhabitants, could produce something like 10 million a year and a half gallons of fuel sufficient to work by bus 300 to 100,000 km each.
In Europe, this system has already been adopted in France, the city of Lille and Sweden in Stockholm.
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