Tag Archive for 'decline'
Cilento, killed the man clean symbol of an Italy
Anti-mafia mayor and a man of good governance: clean energy, ecology , agriculture, and land quality. Angelo Vassallo, 57, mayor of the town of Salerno inches, it fell under the gunshots of the attack which has struck down a few steps from his home on the night between 5 and 6 September, on his way home after a meeting work. "The news of the killing has left us shocked," write Andrea Maurizio Pallante and Bertaglio on "The Fact Daily: in addition to the grief that unites" all persons involved in defending the legality and the environment, in this case adds "a note of pain and involvement particular, since the Movement for the decrease Felix, chaired by Pallas, was to inaugurate Acciaroli, Pollica fraction, an event to celebrate the courageous efforts of the territory.
Barbarism: if capitalism suicide of Western civilization
What c'azzecca Pericles with Charlemagne? Why do we keep talking inappropriately to "Western civilization", making it descend gold age of Athenian democracy of the Philosophers (and slaves)? If Simone Veil, the Hellenic world based on the cult of beauty was finally swept away in the Middle Ages by the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars, which triumphed by force of arms to which Rome had already folded the Mediterranean, a new book test now redefine West: something that is more appropriate to go back to the Enlightenment values of 700, rights and freedom, now on the verge of extinction under the pressure of the cult's final profit, the dark god of absolute capitalism.
Growth, the party is over: Italy's future is scary
Until the nineties was believed the last great cycle considered irreversible and innovative, self-generating and height of globalization: the endless cycle of small and medium enterprise, the industrial districts of the Third Italy , forges employment and niche markets open the world. How many politicians tried to ride the illusion that the districts would be entered into the system, bringing a new center of world capitalism? The empty warehouses - and not just in the Northeast Italian - now tell us quell'abbaglio. The closed hierarchy of our capital market has never taken down from reliance solely to the second and third lines of the liquidity management of financial firms under-districts
Crisis in the dark: the beginning of the end Saxon hegemony
Recently a period of very deep reflections was repeatedly released by Marino and Massimo Badiali Bontempelli. One of the most interesting attempts to build a political thought at the great crisis in progress. We can say first that the true face of capitalism, not only Italian, already revealed itself fully in the time falls between the mid-seventies and the second half of the nineties. Because this period is so important? From the perspective of economic and social it is in that phase, which closed the open cycle since World War II.
BP Oil between Libya and Sicily, the Mediterranean at risk?
Oil spill for the Mediterranean? Unable to exclude: if the Gulf of Mexico is far away, this time even less careful observers can not underestimate the intention of the British Petroleum to begin exploration of 'off' of the Gulf of Sirte, Libya. In short, new drilling in the Mediterranean, at depths dangerous: 1,700 meters, or using the most risky in the event of an accident. In the Mediterranean region, the floor is covered by the drilling would be even more profound than that off of Louisiana, who put the cross America unable to plug the leak.
Cameras farmers: the Granary Memorial
A thousand cameras to farmers in the world to tell life, memory, wisdom and tragedies of the past. "We are not afraid fatigue, but the loss of meaning." Carlo Petrini, owner and founder of Slow Food Terra Madre, launches its new project: The Granary Memorial. "It's not a museum but a mine from which all can be drawn upon." Rituals, music and dialects from all continents, thanks to the autumn festival of Turin , perhaps with the exception of a godfather: Dario For. Thanks to the extensive network of Slow Food now in 153 countries, aims to create peasants-makers: why "the universe can not be told in the monoculture of written language."
Energy from the motor car: Fiat and What Next?
Micro-cogeneration: electricity and heat from the motor car. Energy that can search every home produce and sell ENEL. High efficiency operation and low cost when compared to those of large power plants, perhaps nuclear. The proposal has already been put into practice by Honda in Japan and more recently by Volkswagen in Germany, according to a dynamic German energy company, will build one hundred thousand micro-cogeneration, natural gas engines derived from the Golf, over the next five years. And Fiat What Next?
Giulietto Church Aid, there's a monkey at the controls
Imagine yourself on an airliner to ten thousand feet high. Until recently everything was going well, but a few minutes the aircraft started to jerk violently, seems to fall, then rises, then returns to fly normally for a while, but still jumps. Passengers scream of fear, entering his belt. But no one is giving information, the stewardesses have disappeared, the master is silent, and indeed are strange noises from the microphone. What to do? You get up with difficulty and run towards the cockpit. Forced the door closed and ... discover that instead of the pilot is a monkey.
Zero growth equal welfare: the case Camigliano
The new urban plan Camigliano common Caleno, does not have any growing area within the perimeter of the city. The decision was taken by management and communicated to citizens through official meetings took place last month. No area will be declared buildable and, conversely, the City will move towards action of retraining and restructuring of existing buildings but uninhabited, abandoned or derelict.
Decline today would also like to Marx
And 'known that, in general, among those who continue to draw inspiration from the thinking of Marx and those who recently have begun to theorize the decline are not at good terms. The former tend to see the decline, at best, as an aspiration subjective nature of socially ambiguous, while the "decline" in Marx's thought see nothing but a version of "left" idolatry development today dominates the world and against which they intend to fight. Judge this conflict entirely negative.
Happy decline: yes to the referendum for public water
'Reclaim water: public good, to be redeemed and subtract the management of enterprises. " The Movement for the decrease Happy adheres well to the referendum campaign launched by the Forum movement to water, to be launched March 20 by the national demonstration held in Rome in Piazza Navona. Starting in April, for three months until July, will start the real campaign by collecting signatures for the three referendum questions: we need 650,000 signatures to call a referendum in 2011.
Just advertising inventiamoci the Smarketing
"If you're on a bike and you have to race a Ferrari, it's useless pedal faster: better to cut through the narrow streets, where winning is not the strongest but the most agile." Theory and practice of a new communication strategy: the Smarketing. This philosophy of Marco Geronimi Stoll, advertising and even repented "deserter", after years of fierce marketing now teaches to "defend itself" from advertising. Rather, to invent another type of communication, ethics and anti-consumerist, for those who love the environment, the short chain and the decrease.
