A series of workshops to imagine and build circular economy in the fisheries and aquaculture sectors: the Bluefasma Living Labs of "BLUEfasma", a project co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund through the Interreg MED 2014-2020 Program, are coming to life. The MEDSEA Foundation is part of them as external expert of the International Marine Center of Torregrande (IMC), which coordinates the activities in Sardinia.
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“Next generation EU, or Recovery Fund, as we erroneously call it in Italy. And then Farm to Fork, PAC, all terms that might sound abstruse, incomprehensible. For us as well as for the territory of Maristanis.
It is the dunialella seaweed that warns the salt workers about the time of harvest. Only the dunialella survives the concentration reached in the basins. In September its pigment invades them making the saltpans a vast mirror filled with the colors of the sunset. All around is the autumn of the cities that have grown up on the coast, on the labor of the “sea peasants”.
The shadows fall vertically on Cathedral square in Terralba. Few brave people cross the churchyard and the streets under the sweltering July sun. A group of retirees chat about the benches, protected by the trees. “The restoration of the Old Tower of Marceddì? A well done thing, important both for the village and for Terralba. I was a builder, I am really curious to see how it will look like when the work is done", says Mr. Marras, who was assigned by the group to answer.
The Covid-19 emergency did not prevent over 450 pupils from 23 Sardinian middle school classes from participating to the "Attitudide Ocean Award", a prize born from the collaboration between the MEDSEA Foundation and COR36, organizer of the PRADA Cup - regattas of selection for the Challengers of the 36th America's Cup. The prize has had the goal to promote a path of awareness on the issues of the sustainable use of the sea.
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It is said that the engineer Luigi Conti Vecchi asked if Sardinia was touched by the mistral. A curious doubt to be thought in front of the large square that leads to his salt pans, where the north-west wind upsets the tufts of palm trees, sending a rustling sound through the air, and from the bottom it smoothly snatch away scent of rosemary. Clouds broken into flocks run through the blue.
The global geography of water is changing. We live on a planet that is home to 7.5 billion people. They will likely become 9.5 billion by 2050. Luckily, many people came out of poverty and took on western middle-class lifestyles. This has led to a massive increase in water consumption.
“We opened in early April. The distribution was expected to last only for the lockdown period. Then May arrived, and now we are thinking about June. Then, who knows”, says Alessandro Cao, while the team of volunteers he coordinates runs along with the perfect mechanism of the food distribution center of the Cagliari fair, managed by Caritas and created to support all those who to escape the pandemic have sunk in poverty .
Un paradiso perduto, diviso nell’incidenza dei rischi fra nord e sud. È quanto emerge dall’ultimo rapporto del MedECC (il network che riunisce gli esperti mediterranei sui cambiamenti climatici e ambientali), “Risks associated to climate and environmental changes in the Mediterranean region”.
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