CBCX Organizing Team
The organizing team for the CBCX
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Created: Mar 03, 2009
Updated: Oct 01, 2009
Membership: Invitation Only
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Carmelo Cannarella
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Carmelo Cannarella is Technologist of an Italian public research institution and his field of interest covers the issues of innovation and knowledge diffusion above all in rural areas.
www.arvalia.blogspot.com
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Remove Janine 13 days ago
Thanks, Carmelo, for your excellent work getting WE translated into Italian!
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Caro Carmelo, come è piccolo il mondo, io ho passato la mia infanzia sul lago di Vico, giocando con i falchi (poiane) che mio padre ammaestrava... Volteggiavano eleganti contro il cielo blù chiaro, poi improvvisamente si gettavano in picchiata nelle acque blù scure del lago per acchiappare qualche incauto pesce persico o luccio... Sulla spiaggia, al lido dei pioppi, mio padre seduto sul seggiolino pieghevole di fronte al suo cavalletto di legno, dipingeva un quadro ad olio,(ne sento ancora l'odore) il lago con sullo sfondo le armoniose curve del monte Venere.., dove gli dei erano di casa... Mi fa piacere trovare qualche affinità culturale fra noi, come i libri di F. Capra e l'amore per le lunghe passeggiate in solitaria... Siamo solo pedine, consapevoli o inconsapevoli, gli dei giocano a dadi. Come diceva il dio Krisna al pavido Arjuna che titubava ad entrare in battaglia: " Solo l'azione ti salverà dalla schiavitù dell'azione." I più sinceri e cordiali auguri. Love Alfredo |
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Thank you, Carmelo, for joining my group, In The Eye of the Hand Poetry I have been so looking forwards to read some 'green' poetry...:) please feel free to post your poems if you have any and please do let me know if you need any help.
All the best
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Ah, thanks for the invite. I will check out your blog! I love traveling to Italy... who knows we may be there again soon. Right now, WE is working on translating project, don't know how we stand on Italian. Would you know of anyone who might be interested if we are in need of Italian?
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Recently I've got the occasion to talk with two guys about the problems
of sustainability, the distortions provoked by the no rule and no limit
economy, renewable energies and the dead-end of the development model
based on fossil fuels, the increasing inequality among social
components and States at international level, etc.
At the end, we all agree on these issues, but the discussion always is blocked on the same knot: we cannot do anything to change this, we have no power, we don't matter! Surely it is rather true that we don't matter above all within a society based on nepotism, corruption, feudal links and pyramid structure like the italian one nowadays. Yet, how clearly described by H. Arendt in "A report on the Banality of Evil" or more recently Z. Bauman in "Consuming Life" (I warmly suggest the reading of both books), often complex conditions of social and collective perversions are caused by a long chain of individual behaviours which, when isolated, are insignificant and not-relevant but when inserted within this chain may generate devastating effects. These effects are made even more devastating because characterized by collective irresponsibility caused by a dispersion of personal reponsibility and committment; the consequences of our behaviours are thus perceived as distant in physical, spatial, temporal and psychological terms. Therefore, we have the impression to be entrapped on a train running at a foolish speed, without a driver, on a dead track and all the passengers are perfectly aware of this: they know that the train will crash at the end but they feel to have no power to stop it. If all this depends also on this long chain of individual behaviours (considering that politicians are doing nothing to deal with these issue for the huge economic interests involved), we all must do something to change our (I repeat our) behaviours. A virtuous and positive example of "I can do something" is to stop the use of plastic bags we use when shopping. These bags have a dramatic environmental impact and we use them everyday: we can immediately renunce to use them without any problem making in the same time something great and useful for the environment.
The first internation plastic-bag free day will be held on next september the 12th. This is a good occasion to make our voices heard and to provide a positive answer to the question: what can I do? |
