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OSSIGENO

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.

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.

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