Respicio (and other look-back stories)
Paradox of respect: what if it was our obsessive demand for respect causing its current scarcity? Raffaele Alberto Ventura investigates for O13 respect in philosophy, anthropology... and rap.
Doughnut Economics to redesign business
The Doughnut Economics as a compass for transforming business design in the name of respect for humanity and the planet. The analysis of Erinch Sahan, head of DEAL - Doughnut Economics Action Lab.
Syntropic Agriculture as a philosophy, respect as a categorical imperative. Conversation with Ernst Götsch
From his Brazilian fazenda, the father of Syntropic Agriculture Ernst Götsch illustrates, between philosophy and agrarianism, the green revolution of his eco-regenerative paradigm increasingly applied on a global scale.
Case history: Amadeco Farm, Puglia. Respecting the future through Syntropy
Respect for the future through tradition: based on the Götsch Agenda, journalists Andrade and Pasini analyse the case of their farm, which has quadrupled the organic matter content of the soil in just two and a half years.
For a decolonization of the global food system: the Masala y Maíz model. Conversation with Saqib Keval and Norma Listman
Mestizaje Rebelde is the reference locution for what happens to food cultures in the global South, historically despoiled until two fighting chefs decided to confront the system. Their story, through their voices.
The body and the shelter: respect for rights and contemporary art. A conversation with Berlinde De Bruyckere
No one, more than she, knows how to mold respect for life, beyond its skin. No one, more than she, creates beauty from the non-zone of the margin. On a journey between respect and its opposite, O13 meets Berlinde De Bruyckere.
Microfinance and Social Business: the roots of a global revolution
The shining example of Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2006, to learn how microcredit and Social Business models can trigger the most urgent revolution in equity and sustainability.
Beneath our feet _ by George Monbiot
«Beneath our feet is a miracle», writes the award-winning Guardian columnist, essayist and environmental activist George Monbiot, for the opening act of Ossigeno 12. But if we cannot know the reasons for miracles for they are supernatural, nothing is more natural than the soil, which we do not know only because of our guilty neglect. Between data and enchantment, Monbiot tells us that miracle of life and vitality that is soil.
The soil that cultivates water. In conversation with Lorenzo Costa
Like his Renaissance namesake, a great artist at the court of the Este family, Lorenzo Costa paints new morphologies by shaping the soil with water. An Italian pioneer of permaculture, his practice responds to three imperatives – to slow down, to distribute, to infiltrate – by listening to and respecting the land of Chianti and cultivating, like his fellow countryman Leonardo, the spark of experimentation.
The immortality of the paradigm. Aztec chinampas, custodians of biodiversity
There are some founding myths that, though distant from us in time and latitude, are still able to point the way. The model of the chinampas descends from Mexica-Aztecan mythology, generating soil from water and, through the work of associations such as Arca Tierra, connecting the biblical narrative of the Promised Land to the rhizomatic reality of the urban jungle.