Category: Environment / Ecology

Reading time: 12 minutes Villa Ca' Rezzonico, Bassano del Grappa, 7 April 2022 | Oikos. Classics Cons | Nature has found a home for one day in Villa Rezzonico. In fact, the Bassano stage of Oikos took place in its suggestive central hall. Classici Contro, a successful traveling project conceived and promoted by the Ca'…

Reading Time: 3 minutes CLASSICS AGAINST 2021-2022 OIKOS Man and nature between Homer and the near future Oikos. Poets for the future, edited by S. Strazzabosco, Foreword by F. Pontani and A. Camerotto. Drawings by L. De Nicolo, Mimesis/Classics Cons n. 17, Milan-Udine 2020, ISBN 9788857573410 Oikos. Poets for the future, Editio…

Reading time: 9 minutes With this rather free and informal "chat", we start a dialogue dedicated to the great theme of the Environment, which will move along the landscape, urban planning and social ridges, then entering into the heart of the dynamics of so-called integral ecology – conceptual paradigm that brings together the various parts with the whole –…

Reading time: 4 minutes 12 September 2020 Audience with Pope Francis reserved for Laudato Si' Communities The Rome we pass through is the semi-deserted Rome of Covid, alienating, enervated, amazed. That it folded to have understood, in a flash of time, all the fragility of its monumentality, its imperial beauty, its charm...

Reading time: 5 minutes Climate crisis and health crisis. Two terrible scourges that grip our present and our future. But we can no longer see them as separate elements that interact through more or less indirect consequences. It is the typical anthropocentric distortion that we apply in the perception of our Planet. The Earth does not…

Reading time: 5 minutes I was born and raised in the S. Antonino neighborhood, south of Treviso; I currently live in S. Zeno. The station overpass has always accompanied my life and my days: a bridge towards the city centre, towards school, friends, shopping, social life. But also…