Reading time: 8 minutes Black Friday is much more than the discounts delivered to your inbox or the huge posters inviting you to take your window shopping to the next level. Black Friday is [ … ]
Tag: environment
An Invisible Threat: Microplastics in Our Food
Reading time: 3 minutes According to a 2019 study, an average person could be ingesting as many as 1,900 microplastic particles a week, which is equivalent to eating a credit card. But how does [ … ]
Climate change hit 33 million people in Pakistan floods and the world is “sleepwalking”
Reading time: 4 minutes “Literally one third of the country is underwater” said the Climate Minister of Pakistan. “Millions are homeless, schools and health facilities have been destroyed, livelihoods are shattered, critical infrastructure wiped out, [ … ]
Fighting our battles: Can current green energy technologies save us from climate change?
Reading time: 4 minutes In 2015, the Paris Agreement was the first climate change treaty directly aimed at limiting the rise of global temperatures to between 1.5°C and 2°C (above pre-industrial levels). Ever since [ … ]
Gearing the importance of climate change towards all of society
Reading time: 6 minutes Behind the scenes of PreCOP26 and Officine Italia As we have been hearing often lately, we are the last generation to have the concrete power to do something against climate [ … ]
COP26 a common effort to keep the 1,5° degree in sight
Reading time: 3 minutes Going behind the scenes of the most important climate event of the year. On November 13 a deal was reached at COP26 named after the city that hosted it as [ … ]
From Carbons to Electrons: Shifting Powers in the Middle East and North Africa
Reading time: 4 minutes “The Gulf is one of the regions that will face the largest consequences of a future green transition, whatever this might entail. The time for the shift, however, is now”. [ … ]
Climate Change in India: a talk with young activist John Paul Jose
Reading time: 3 minutes John Paul Jose, 24 years old, is an activist from Indian region of Kerala. After his homeland was hit by extreme and unusual climate changes, he decided to raise his [ … ]
The price of being on top of the trends
Reading time: 3 minutes Living in Milan we are exposed to fashion on a daily basis. Even though fashion is a unique and interesting part of our culture many of us remain unaware of [ … ]
Park Clean-ups on November 20th
Reading time: 5 minutes Green Light for Business, in collaboration with the Plastic Free NGO, encourages you to participate in the park clean-up that will take place on the morning of November 20th in [ … ]