From The Veneto Courier | From March 1-6, meetings, debates and tours among “green” companies.
PADUA Green economy, innovation, sustainability: experts and companies will discuss these issues from March 1-6 in the “Green Week”, an event that winds its way through Veneto and Trentino, a forum for discussion and debate on the major themes of the green economy. Already almost sold out for the three-day tour, from March 1 to 3, in the places of green production. Which in the Venetian regions is declined, this year, in the ten “Sustainability Factories”: Nice, Magis, Agricola Grains, Interporto di Padova, Cielo e Terra, Grafica Veneta, Diadora, Lago, Centrale Ponte Mas and Lattebusche. Some well-known to the general public, others a little less so. Each with its own history, but all distinguished by innovative choices on the front of the relationship between business and the environment.
It is the fifth edition of the event “Green Week”, promoted by VeneziePost in collaboration with eAmbiente, Lattebusche, Flormart and Confindustria Belluno, under the patronage of the City of Trebaseleghe (Padua) and the Federation of Camposampierese Municipalities. From Friday, March 4 to Sunday, March 6, the event will come to Trento for three days of debates, meetings and events. An event entitled “I do not waste.” The title indicates the need to address with greater commitment the great issue of efficiency in the use of resources, from water to food, from energy to production. Green Week will kick off with guided tours and a series of meetings. On Monday at the fair in Padua, there was a presentation of the event. According to the president of the environmental advisory firm eAmbiente, Gabriella Chiellino, “Veneto is the second region for green: according to studies by the Symbola Foundation and Unioncamere, it is Lombardy that leads the ranking of green businesses, with 71,000 cases; Veneto follows with 34,700.”
PadovaFiere CEO Daniele Villa on Monday morning launched the international landscape architecture competition Flormart Garden Show, which is linked to the Flormart nursery and garden show, scheduled for Sept. 21-23. This year the event enjoys the collaboration of Uniscape, a network of 52 universities for the implementation of the “European Landscape Convention.” Two sections, for a prize money of 20 thousand euros: one dedicated to temporary garden projects; the other will award the three best works for a competition of ideas related to the redevelopment of an industrial area being decommissioned from the parts of Lozzo Euganeo and owned by Fischer Italia, never sponsor of the project. All the events and the program of the “Green Week” between Veneto and Trentino is online at the website. Free admission, but registration is recommended.
by Marco de’ Francesco