Ravenna

The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. In the language of today's politics there is an expression that is indicative of a certain sloppiness, and it is the "vocation of the territories".It is a captivating formula that is repeated by representatives of all political colors and latitudes.Easy to grasp (and wear), the vocation of the territories is to be understood in the religious sense, as something immutable and to be adhered to uncritically.But which in reality becomes the pass to try to impose one's own vision of the world.Except that the territories, the ways in which we imagine them and the ways in which we transform them, they are the result of certain choices, daughters in turn of mediations and conflicts - even abandonment is a choice, as demonstrated for example by the case of Abruzzo and inland areas.In this sense, the Italy that we are trying to outline in this eternal post-pandemic and post-conflict present is a paradi...

According to the law of 11 February 1992, the different animal species that create burrows on the banks of watercourses must be controlled differently.But it wasn't like that

Seventy-one pines which have been providing shade and greenery to the main avenue of Lido di Savio for more than half a century and which now the Municipality of Ravenna would like to demolish it to make room for the new maritime park, which in reality has little to do with "park". it mainly involves redoing the asphalt by removing the trees. This is the project that the citizens of the small seaside village in Romagna are fighting against, who have gathered in a committee to ask the administration to save the trees. The felling of the pine trees is part of the major project of Maritime Park  which involves all 9 Ravenna beaches:«the largest redevelopment intervention with tourist and environmental purposes in the history of Ravenna» to use the words of mayor Michele de Pascale.The total cost was 17 million, financed largely with Pnrr funds.It mainly involves redeveloping the streets, creating new car parks, new cycle paths  and new access routes to the...