From The Veneto Courier | Diadora, for example. Zero-mile footwear. In-house, responsible, eco-friendly production in the context of a factory that employs renewable energy.
Diadora, for example. Zero-mile footwear. In-house, responsible, eco-friendly production in the context of a factory that employs renewable energy. According to a project begun in 2015, overseen by the environmental advisory firm eAmbiente, and plan that led to accreditation by a global certification body. One of the ten companies featured in the “Factories of Sustainability” tour, a three-day journey as part of “Green Week,” March 1-6 between Veneto and Trentino. The other “Sustainability Factories” are Nice, Magis, Agricola Grains, Interporto di Padova, Cielo e Terra, Grafica Veneta, Lago, Centrale Ponte Mas and Lattebusche. A cross-section of green production in the Venetian regions, with innovations in energy, logistics, architecture, agribusiness, design and automation.
So you can visit, in the Padua area, (Arre, Wednesday, March 2) Agricola Grains, a company that has invested in a project on the abandonment of chemical crops, and consolidation in the field of harvesting and marketing of organic cereals. But also, in the Vicenza area (also on Wednesday, March 2), Cielo e Terra, the first winery in the country to have introduced leaning management, which eliminates waste.
But there is much more in “Green Week,” a discussion forum on green economy, innovation, and sustainability. Which will bring international experts, institutions and businesses together on these issues. The event is promoted by VeneziePost with eAmbiente, Lattebusche, Flormart and Confindustria Belluno, under the patronage of the municipality of Trebaseleghe (Padua) and the Federation of Camposampierese municipalities.
Yesterday morning, at the fair in Padua, the presentation of the event. For eAmbiente president Gabriella Chiellino, “Based on studies by the Symbola Foundation and Unioncamere, Veneto, with 34,700 green businesses, is second only to Lombardy, with 71,000.” PadovaFiere’s ad, Daniele Villa, has launched the international landscape architecture competition Flormart Garden Show, connected to the Flormart Nursery and Garden Show, Sept. 21-23. With the collaboration of Uniscape, a network of 52 universities for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention. Two sections, for a prize pool of twenty thousand euros: one dedicated to temporary garden projects; the other will reward the three best works related to the redevelopment of an industrial area in the Euganean Hills owned by Fischer Italia, the main sponsor of the project.
The entire program of “Green Week” online at www.veneziegreen.it. The Conclusions, in Trento, March 4-6, 30 events on sustainability, organized in collaboration with University of Trento, Muse-Museo delle Scienze, Fondazione Edmund Mach and Trentino Sviluppo Progetto Manifattura.
By MARCO DE’ FRANCESCO