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Italy’s urban reforestation plan
12 October 2021
Climate change & Sustainability
VAIA goes to Fuorisalone
27 September 2021
Climate change & Sustainability
Measuring air quality with Ketty Paller, CEO of UpSens
19 August 2021
Climate change & Sustainability
Being a journalist in Milan: meet Jacopo Tondelli
12 July 2021
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Green turning points: a testimony by Irene Falck
12 July 2021
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Defending the right to breathe clean air
9 July 2021
Climate change & Sustainability
Why do we plant new trees?
25 June 2021
Climate change & Sustainability
The line and the circle: two viewpoints on economic thought
4 February 2021
Climate change & Sustainability
Biodiversity loss and the spread of epidemics
1 May 2020
Among the proposals to make our cities greener and more resilient to changing climatic conditions, there is growing attention to urban afforestation projects. What are their advantages, and why should we focus on cities, where roads, pavements and parking lots make planting particularly difficult? What is the situation of urban greenery in Italy, and what […]
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What more eagerly awaited event for Italian design than the Salone del Mobile-Fuorisalone? Exceptionally scheduled for September 2021, in anticipation of the traditional annual appointment in April, this edition of the design kermesse had a very special flavour for us: VAIA set up its own exhibition stand in its incomparable setting, and presented its second […]
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Ketty Paller is not just another entrepreneur. A humanist with a passion for wellness, hiking and nature, in 2016 she launched UpSens, a startup specialising in environmental monitoring technology. Today the company, which has its headquarters in Trentino, Italy and is part of the Optoi Group, makes hi-tech sensors and devices to help improve people’s […]
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Ecological transition is not a mirage. Falck is a centuries-old venture based in Milan that produced steel until the 1990s and has since transitioned fully towards the production of clean energy from wind and solar. As well as doing business though, a company also has the moral duty of contributing to the community – as […]
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Elisabetta Reyneri is Legal Advisor and Project Coordinator of the non-profit organisation Cittadini per l’Aria (Citizens for Clean Air). On 15 July she will be our guest at “Earth to Milan: trees and communities for the future”, a round table in which we will explore current and future projects for a more sustainable and people-friendly […]
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There are now numerous international commitments to reforestation. The Billion Tree Campaign launched by the UN Environment Programme in 2006 was followed by the Bonn Challenge in 2011 and by the One Trillion Trees Initiative, launched at the World Economic Forum 2020. Planting a new tree is an important action that we fully support: to […]
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The upheavals of 2020 have accelerated the changing pace at which we live and create new products and services. In the background, stand two simple geometric figures. The line characterises supply chains that start with the extraction of virgin materials, and which ultimately see the product as waste. The circle accompanies the thought that every output of one production […]
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Recent months’ developments are testing our most ingrained habits, along with the production systems we rely on to provide for our needs and desires. The phenomenon, which had been announced by some, has lashed the world at high speed. Of the origins and potential causes of COVID-19 (acronym for COronaVIrus Disease 19) that have been […]
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