Many milestones have marked the path towards sustainability. Rather than offering an in-depth account, to help readers navigate their way through such a complex history, Soft&Green has chosen a few dates in each decade, from the 1960s to the 1990s,…
Sustainability has become a major focus of the world's media. Through the contribution provided by the determination and grit of young Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, public opinion in many countries has turned its attention to this topic. Introduced ‘officially’ for the…
How many people know that Gro Harlem Brundtland, from whom the report "Our Common Future" took its name, is a woman? She graduated in medicine from the University of Oslo and was the first female Prime Minister of Norway. Brundtland…
October 2019 – Soft&Green asked Enrico Giovannini, spokesman for the Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development, ASviS, to answer three questions about the future of sustainability. How is Italy positioned in relation to other countries for the 2030 Agenda? Globally, despite…
Young people and the future are synonymous with one another. The future, first and foremost biologically, belongs to them. It always has. On a planet that is less resource-rich and has new problems, however, this relationship has become less clear.…
The testimony of Giovanni Francesco Martoccia, Sustainability Program Developer SGS Italy Everyone should consider work as a vocation, understood as the desire to achieve goals not out of duty, but out of passion. As utopian as this might seem, there…
Although the definition of local social responsibility is relatively new, the goal that every community should have is certainly not new: improving the quality of life of the people who live there, taking into account the environmental, social and economic…
To date, the issue of urban regeneration has mainly involved the suburbs of large metropolises. But even the city centre sometimes needs to be revitalised. In this sense, Bologna’s experience is very interesting. In the past, Bologna was well known…