Pfas: Europe reverses bans
DuPont and 3M have known for decades that Pfas, used for example in the production of Teflon, are hazardous to health
Textiles: Forever 21 closes, blaming Shein and Temu who only do e-commerce
“Unfortunately, I think it’s pretty interesting to buy a $7 pair of jeans if you’re not rich,” Ken Pucker, professor of practice at Tufts University’s Fletcher School and former chief operating officer of Timberland, told me last year
Boycott KitKat’. Protest against deforestation for palm oil
The impression is that the pattern described in this article – ‘The position of West Papuans is very clear: we are a modern colony’ – is replicated in many of these realities. In other parts of Indonesia, in Malaysia, in Colombia, in Guatemala, in Nigeria and in Côte d’Ivoire
USA: Bird flu drives up price of eggs
The bird flu that started in 2022 led to the slaughter of 140 million animals. Duties could drive up their price again and they are in short supply in France
Why there will be a water crisis in Sicily even if it has rained for months
In many municipalities, water is already rationed. And we are still in the low season, as far as tourism is concerned, with Sicily being taken by storm for the holidays and the long bridge between Easter and the First of May, and with Agrigento, the Italian Capital of Culture 2025 which is expected to triple its number of presences. But with what water, if images of luxury B&Bs with water bins at the entrance for visitors and instructions in three languages on how to ‘wash up’ were already doing the rounds on the web last year?
The White House will remove the magnolia tree dating back to Andrew Jackson
Given the way the new administration is going about the environment by ‘running’ bird flu, cracking down on chemtrails (!!), denying climate change, and deforesting America, I’d say this is the last icing on the cake. The symbol of a nightmare
Intensively farmed chicken breast is full of fat
A test conducted by ‘Il Salvagente’ shows us, based on the analysis of 18 chicken breasts, that the nutritional composition of this meat seems to have changed radically in recent years, with a significant increase in fat content
‘Where Italy is going’: a 52% collapse of crops in Sardinia in the last 15 years
on unfair practices and the exploitation of workers there is little to celebrate. And the desertification of the Agricultural Institutes confirms this
Rolexes and luxury cars: the ‘Dolce Vita’ of former Conad executives under investigation for corruption
It might sound like the plot of a Totò film, but the story doesn’t even make one smile, because it was the thousands of families of dismissed employees, about whom La Stampa says nothing, who paid the price. But this is nothing new. The affair went on for years, amid complacent silences and intimidation of those who dared to write about it like me (and a few others)
Giorgina Venosta: continuity of the Guido Venosta European Foundation (2019)
After the death of my grandfather Guido Venosta (1998), his widow Carlo Venosta set up the 'Guido Venosta European Foundation', which she looked after until 2017. Guido's daughter, my mother Giorgina, then joins the board, picking up the baton and passing it on to me at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic (2020).
Guido Venosta and his second life: the National Association for Cancer Research (AIRC) – part one
In 1966, my grandfather Guido agreed to join a 'small association' to promote awareness of the 'unmentionable disease', cancer. Over twenty years later, the 'small association' would become AIRC - the National Association for Cancer Research.
