From his work as a botanist on Long Island, near New York, to his return to Calabria to launch the Il Tesoro di Roseto Community Cooperative, with the goal of reviving the historic cultivation of the Damask rose. The inspiring…
Bringing foreign citizens of Italian origin who want to rediscover their roots back to Italy, settling them in small villages with dwindling populations. This is the idea behind the Italie project by Asmel, the Association for Subsidiarity and Modernization of…
Beached seagrass: Italy’s first plant that will use it to generate biogas and thus energy will be built in Pollica, Cilento, in the province of Salerno. We talked about it with Stefano Pisani, mayor of Pollica, who has been fighting…
Visiting the abandoned stone villages of rural Spain during Christmas 2016 with his youngest son, Enrique Martínez Pomar, recalls his sense of loss and sadness at the emptiness he encountered. Less than 300 km from Madrid, Las Tierras Altas region…
Once known as one of the most dangerous places on the planet, Medellín’s Comuna 13 is now one of the city’s major tourist attractions. Its transformation illustrates the power of good public policy combined with culture and art. To tell…
There are now over 100 biobanks worldwide, ranging from small university-based repositories to larger collections supported by governments. These collections of human biological samples, stored in cryogenic facilities could revolutionize medicine by giving researchers access to population-wide data through which…
We launched our latest podcast series, Driving Change Books, as the summer began. The series is hosted by Matthew Bishop, a former Economist journalist turned social entrepreneur and the author of several books, who talks with the authors of some…
At a young age, Martin Burt challenged the view that poverty stemmed from the bad habits of the poor, marshaling the case that its deepest roots are to be found in the actions of the powerful. He was 27 years…
The Qantas fleet of A380s may be languishing thousands of miles from home in the dry heat of the Mojave desert, but chief executive Alan Joyce is optimistic about the airline’s future. Delta, American, United, Air France, British Airways and…