It is Gianluca Lentini with “Greenland Wasn’t All Green” (Egea) who won the second edition of the Green Book Prize, an award that aims to encourage publishing productions that tell and analyze the world of the green economy.
This afternoon during the Green Week in Parma, the Award ceremony was held in Piazza Garibaldi following the vote cast by the Readers’ Jury composed of 240 entrepreneurs, professors, representatives of trade associations and research institutes, and young undergraduates from faculties related to the themes of the Award (230 valid votes). Gianluca Lentini‘s book won with 65 votes, followed by Leonardo Becchetti’s “Healing Democracy” (minimum fax), which achieved 60 preferences. On the third step of the podium goes Serenella Iovino with “Calvino’s Animals” (Treccani), which scored 45 votes. More detached at 35 is “What You Know About Plastic Is Wrong” by Simone Angioni, Stefano Bertacchi and Ruggero Rollini (Gribaudo), and coming in fifth is Massimo Zamboni with “Bestiario selvatico” (La nave di Teseo), which scored 25 votes.
The award event, anticipated in the morning and in the preceding days by moments of presentation of the individual finalist books, was opened by the speech of Davide Bollati, president of Davines Group and of the Award Jury, who during the ceremony stressed the importance of promoting the reading of texts dedicated to sustainability issues. “Transition must be a choral effort and not imposed from above so that it is metabolized by all. The establishment of this Award helps in the journey of sharing the transition in society.” This was also followed by the speech of the chairman of the Festival’s Scientific Committee and president of Symbola, Ermete Realacci: “The green transition needs culture, suggestions, dare I say an epic. We need language that touches people’s hearts and a cross-cutting message that reaches everyone and thus helps us think about what we need to be in the future and what we are not yet.”
The Prize, won last year by Fabio Ciconte with “Who Owns the Fruits of the Earth” (Editori Laterza), aims to encourage editorial productions, with particular attention to the quality of writing, that narrate and analyze the world of the green economy, both from the aspect of climate-related issues, and more specifically the themes of energy, fashion, food, technologies, mobility, infrastructure and living, pollution, land consumption and social sustainability.
The winning title: work and author
“Greenland Wasn’t All Green” by Gianluca Lentini (Egea)
Book.
What is climate change? How is it measured? How do we know what is really happening and what might happen in the future? How sure are we that current climate change is human-made? More importantly, what can be done now and what decisions can we make? Starting from Nordic legends and sagas (where we will find out, among other things, why the very white Greenland bears a name that actually means “green land”), Gianluca Lentini invites us on a real journey of exploration into climate change: one step at a time, he takes us through the necessary definitions and data, the laws and equations of mathematics, physics and chemistry (always told in a way that everyone can understand), thrilling us page after page with stories, phenomena and effects. We will finally approach possible actions to put in place to mitigate and adapt. The book closes with an essential “review against denialism,” because there are still too many clichés that prevail when it comes to climate and climate change.
Author
Gianluca Lentini, a geophysicist specializing in climatology, works as a researcher and project manager for Poliedra, a service and consulting center of the Politecnico di Milano, where he works on international projects dedicated to environmental sustainability and mountain areas. He published Gaia. Planet Earth and the Changing Climate (2013), Climate Stories. From Mesopotamia to the Exoplanets (2021) and, as scientific curator, Arambi. Together to Lend a Hand to the Earth (2019).
Tomorrow the closing of the Festival with Bollati, Mutti, Tibiletti. Boccaletti’s speech to follow.
On Sunday, April 7, the closing of the Festival of the Green Economy will be entrusted to two events held in the Talk Area set up in Garibaldi Square.
At 10 a.m. it will be the turn of the intergenerational dialogue titled “The Future is in Our Hands,” which will feature Davide Bollati, president of Davines Group, Francesco Mutti, CEO of Mutti, and Veronica Tibiletti, professor of Business Economics at the University of Parma, on stage to discuss with young people from the Parma Giovani 2027 project.
Following at 11:30 a.m., the scientific director of the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Giulio Boccaletti will elaborate on the importance of sustainable management of water resources and the scenarios underway due to climate change, in dialogue with Emma Nicolazzi Bonati and Anita Riccardi, among the promoters of the Parma Giovani 2027 project.
