Since June 2023, Pianosa has been no longer just an island of rare natural beauty, but also an outpost of national and international scientific research. The Pianosa Research Base (BRP-CNR) was inaugurated, housed in the former Carabinieri barracks, now transformed into a study and reception center for researchers, students, and volunteers. Inside…
The island of San Pietro with the Municipality of Carloforte is the Italian pilot island in the context of the Horizon 2020 project, REACT, which aims to test innovative solutions to achieve energy independence in some European islands by combining energy plants renewable with a demand response platform and promoting the involvement of island users in a community ...
On the island of Giannutri, thanks to a memorandum of understanding with Terna Plus, SIE Srl (company that produces and distributes energy in Giglio) and the Tuscan Archipelago National Park, a photovoltaic shelter was built in 2019 by about 60 kW, with its 140 kWh storage system and advanced control system capable ...
The island of Elba aims to become a model of social innovation and sustainability thanks to the commitment and guidance of the local company, Acqua dell'Elba. In June 2021 the Sustainability Manifesto of the Island of Elba was presented, a document created as part of a project promoted by the Acqua dell'Elba local company in collaboration with the consulting company EY which has ...
In May 2021, a fleet of four new sweepers was inaugurated in the port of Bacoli (Naples) who will have the task of keeping the waters around Ischia, Procida and the other Phlegrean islands that overlook the Gulf of Naples clean. The purchase of the four "sentinels of the sea" is part of the pollution prevention strategy of beaches and coasts envisaged by ...
The Blu Marine Service of San Benedetto del Tronto carried out a project on the Tremiti Islands selected as part of the MedPAN Regular Call for Small Projects and co-financed by the French Facility for Global Environment and the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation. The project, which takes the name of Tremiti Plastic Free Islands, had as its…
The Tuscan Archipelago National Park commissioned a project for the creation of a service center and the contextual redevelopment of the current degraded area located in the center of the island of Giannutri. The planning process was shared both with the Municipality of Giglio and with the Superintendency of Siena and thanks to the comparison and ...
The La Maddalena Archipelago National Park has developed the "Climate Friendly Islands" initiative which is aimed at all local actors, who can acquire the Climate Friendly Islands Environmental Quality Label, adopting and developing good practices of eco-sustainability, innovation and enhancement proposed by the Park Authority, offering a service compatible with safeguarding ...
In the two Pontine islands of Ventotene and Santo Stefano, the "Laboratory for sustainable tourism development" was launched to support and enhance local resources with a view to sustainable tourism development. The objective of the laboratory is to contribute to the realization of innovative projects, in particular in the field of hospitality and tourist services, capable of giving concrete answers to needs ...
The disposal of asbestos, especially for smaller and more isolated areas, requires significant costs and logistical problems related to the distance from the mainland which very often do not facilitate the disposal of this material. The island of Capraia demonstrates that it is possible to team up between individuals. The Capraia Smart Island Conference joined an initiative wanted by the Association ...
The Società Elettrica Ponzese SpA is the company that carries out the production, distribution, measurement and sale of electricity in the Municipality of Ponza. Production is currently entrusted to a provisional power station in Monte Pagliaro and to an emergency power station located in Cala dell'Acqua in Le Forna. Project being implemented is ...
For 10 years, the Municipality of Capraia Isola has entered into an agreement with the Tuscan Archipelago National Park and Outdoor Schools on the Net for the implementation of educational campuses, also included in the school-work alternation, which combine the learning aspects of the themes conservation of biodiversity with practical and manual experiences related to protection actions and ...
In the municipality of Malfa, on the island of Salina, the FTTH (Fiber to the Home) fiber optic network is finally available to citizens. This is thanks to the Open Fiber project which, with an investment of 227 thousand euros, has created the connection to the network of 633 real estate units and 7 public administration offices. On 26 sq km ...
A research project will be developed between the islands of Favignana and Lampedusa that aims to spread the use of renewable energy and create a virtuous energy distribution system in small communities, with the aim of encouraging interactions between producers and consumers of energy. . The project, funded by the Region of Sicily, takes the name of ...
In August 2019 the first Italian device in 1: 1 scale for the production of electricity from wave motion was officially inaugurated: the prototype, moored 800 m from the coast of the island of Pantelleria and 35 m deep, is the result of the ten-year work developed by Politecnico di Torino with the support of ...
Everything is now ready for the electrification of the quay at the port of Ischia. The project envisages the allocation by Enel of a transformer cabin that will allow ships, moored during the night, to be powered by the electricity grid so as to turn off the engines and eliminate noisy emissions. The ferries that will stay at the port at night, ...
Giardini sul mare is the name of the new intervention that Legambiente and the Unipol Group intend to implement as part of the Beauty Italy project aimed at the recovery and redevelopment of areas of our country of inestimable value and beauty and which, in this case, aims to enhance the precious landscape-agronomic heritage of Pantelleria. The objective of the new intervention will be ...
The Municipality of Sant'Antioco has been awarded a loan from the Sardinia Region of 600 thousand euros which will allow the implementation of some environmental protection actions foreseen in the SCI Management Plans - Stagno di Santa Caterina, Stagno di Porto Botte and Promontorio, Dune and Wetland of Porto Pino - aimed at guaranteeing its ...
From 2020 March XNUMX the municipality of Sant'Antioco is officially plastic free. Starting from this date, food merchants, such as supermarkets, neighborhood shops, delicatessens and any other business and center authorized to sell tableware for food, are explicitly prohibited from trading any single-use plastic and ...
The Municipality of Malfa, on the Island of Salina, has said no to the use of plastic since July 2018. According to the provisions of the mayor, the sale and use of glasses, plates, cutlery, straws and disposable bags is prohibited in the municipality. However, biodegradable or compostable materials are allowed. For home take-away, both resident citizens and, in ...
The mayor of Ustica also signed the trade union ordinance which prohibits both the use and sale of disposable plastic containers and tableware. "Dishes, cutlery, glasses, trays, straws, coffee or ice cream poles - reads the text of the ordinance - have environmental consequences with a harmful impact both as regards ...
In June 2019, the Mayor of Lipari issued an ordinance for the minimization of waste and the reduction of the environmental impact, prohibiting the use and marketing of polyethylene shopping bags (bags for take-away goods), containers, disposable tableware and other non-material materials. biodegradable, including the Municipality of Lipari among the cities that undertake to reduce ...
Vulcano and Lipari will finally be able to use the desalination and purification plants. The regional council has in fact approved the proposal of the councilor for energy to allocate 2,6 million euros to allow the commissioning of strategic works for the smaller islands. In this way, a long story that began in 2013 with the award of the ...
In Favignana, on the occasion of the Greening the Islands Observatory meeting which was held on the island on 28 and 29 May 2019, the priorities of the analysis that will be the basis of the sustainable development plan of the Egadi islands were identified. Thanks to the comparison between the participants, starting from the Municipal Administration, the electricity companies, the Region ...
Even Pantelleria, from 2019 January XNUMX, has become plastic free. With a special ordinance, the Mayor ordered the merchants on the island of commercial, craft, and food and drink administration activities to distribute to buyers exclusively cutlery, plates, glasses, disposable bags in biodegradable and compostable material. Even citizens residing on the island must equip themselves and ...
From September 2018 Lampedusa has become plastic free. All resident and non-resident citizens of the municipality of Lampedusa and Linosa and commercial businesses operating in the municipal area, both permanent and traveling, are prohibited from using and / or providing non-biodegradable plastic bags (shoppers). Bags must be used instead ...
On the Tremiti islands, since May 2018, disposable cutlery, plates, glasses and shopping bags have been obligatorily replaced by biodegradable ones. For offenders, whether they are tourists, residents or traders, there is a fine of between 50 and 500 euros. The next step will be to ban the plastic bottles and polystyrene containers that fishermen use to ...
The island of Ischia has banned plastic and banned the use of disposable glasses, plates, cutlery and containers. This was decided in March 2019 by the assembly of the Ischia Intercommunal Services Consortium (CISI), made up of the mayors of the six island municipalities, which unanimously approved an ordinance that was adopted by all local authorities in which ...
The MAESTRALE international research project, coordinated by the University of Siena and co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union as part of the Interreg MED program, aims to broaden knowledge and awareness among citizens and institutions on the potential of "Blue energy", the sources of marine energy deriving from wave motion, tides, ...
Thanks to the collaboration between Whirlpool Emea, LifeGate and the technical partner Poralu Marine, as part of the LifeGate PlasticLess® project and with the aim of concretely contributing to the reduction of plastic pollution in our seas, 13 Seabin LifeGates were positioned in as many Italian ports and nautical clubs, ideally covering the peninsula from north to south. Also…
In June 2019, a trade union order was published by the mayor of Ventotene and Santo Stefano to reduce the abandonment and dispersion of plastic waste, reduce polluting emissions and environmental risks. In force since June 15, the ordinance provides that disposable take-away bags in non-biodegradable and / or compostable material will no longer be distributed; that are distributed / sold ...
Starting from 2019 May XNUMX, the island of Capri has become plastic free, thanks to an order signed by the mayor. The provision, valid throughout the municipal area, including the beaches and the entire coastal strip, obliges the use, possession, marketing and import of disposable products for food use in biodegradable and compostable material (cutlery, plates, glasses , trays, ...