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Outside the box. A conversation with Guy Watson

He’s the organic farmer who revolutionised delivery (and the entire agricultural system) in the UK: Guy Watson created Riverford by challenging markets, profits, and conventions. True luxury is knowing where to put down roots: today the company is 100% employee-owned. A political act, before a business one. Because responsibility, when it’s a choice and not a reflex, is something you share.

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.

That spoon that ensures life (and heals the soil)

C’è più vita in un cucchiaio da tavola riempito di terra, che nella totalità di esseri umani che abitano il pianeta. Ossigeno 12 ospita Emanuele Isonio di Re Soil Foundation, ente scientifico no profit, per dare autorevole voce alla vastissima vitalità del suolo, violato nello strappo dall’agricoltura sostenibile all’agroindustria intensiva, perché ciò che accade di sopra cura la salute del mondo di sotto ma, soprattutto, viceversa.

Water in the desert

Water disinfection and recycling, desalination, drip irrigation: Israel, a nation whose morphology is 60% desert, has been able to make a virtue out of necessity, becoming a pioneer in the implementation of cutting-edge technologies to deal with the global problem of water scarcity. The report by Patricia Golan, member of the Israeli innovation community DeserTech.

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