Today we live in an era of paradox where despite all technological innovations that guarantee greater efficiency, we continue to face a constantly growing demand for energy raw materials (excluding the lockdown period).
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The increase in the prices of some raw materials and basic necessities has been at the core of the debate for several weeks. Significant increases in the price of raw materials and basic necessities happen from time to time: such condition like the one we are now experiencing rarely occurs, in which many goods at the same time have seen a simultaneous increase in prices as a result of different conditions.
On January 18, 2022, was held online the webinar on governance models for the Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) organized within the project TUNE UP Interreg MED- Promoting multilevel governance for tuning up biodiversity protection in marine areas.
In Sardinia, the World Wetlands Day on February 2 is celebrated throughout the month with a full calendar of events in the Oristano area including excursions, birdwatching and tours to ponds and lagoons by bike, boat, kayak and even on horseback.
On January 14, 2022, the ban on placing single-use plastic products for consumption came into force. The date is relevant. The prohibition is contained in Article 5 of Legislative Decree 196/2021 and concerns the so-called "Sup-single use plastics" products
With the Re-Live Waste project, the Arborea Producers Cooperative won the award Towards a circular economy 2021, wanted by the Cogeme Foundation and Kyoto Club. Re-Live Waste was funded by the EU and is part of the Interreg MED transnational program. The project is focuses on innovative systems for the management of waste materials, with a view to a circular economy.
In the occasion of the World Wetlands Day which celebrates ponds and lagoons in the world next February 2, the MEDSEA foundation launches the contest on wetlands in Sardinia with the hashtag #WWDSardegna to raise awareness and promote these still little-known habitats.
A new entry from Sardinia is born in the rice family! The Oristano rice farm, iFerrari, launched "Artemide" earlier this year. This new variety of black rice comes from the Venere rice (with medium grain and black pericarp) and the Indica type rice (with long and narrow grain and white pericarp).
“The pandemic crisis and adverse weather conditions created many difficulties, but we persisted, taking advantage of every useful opportunity to carry on the project. Today we are about to achieve what we had in mind when we began”, says Francesca Frau, marine biologist of the MEDSEA Foundation and project manager of MEDSEA GRASS in Sardinia.
- What is the value of our environment?
- MEDSEA joined the MAVA Steering Committee in Provence: praise for Maristanis
- Maristanis: Terre d'Acqua 2022, a wetlands school competition by MEDSEA in the Oristanese
- Coastal Contract: from f the partecipatory process comes the idea of a Regional Park for the Sardinian wetlands.
- Safeguarding Biodiversity with the project “Adopt the Spiaggia Grande vineyard”
- REST-COAST Project: the MEDSEA approach contributes to the resilience fo the European seas
- TransformAr Project: communities protect the environment, the environment protects the people from climate change
- The participatory process towards an integrated management of the Oristanese wetlands site kicked off
- A new cooperation project to improve the environmental sustainability of Mediterranean coasts
- The participatory process involving the Oristanese coastal and wetlands community kicks off