Author: Chiara Marras

“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle If this year you promised to travel more, […]

Yale University tells us about the world in terms of its sustainability. A few weeks ago, they posted the Environmental Performance Index of 2016, a project started 15 years by the World Economic Forum, which reveals the greenest countries of the world. The researchers examined twenty indicators on the protection of human health and the health […]

Valere Tjolle is a British journalist who has always worked in the field of tourism, also working with various associations that deal with sustainable tourism in Europe. Fifty years ago, during his trip to Italy, on the Adriatic Riviera, he fell in love of our landscapes, food and people, and was later transferred to Longiano (near Cesena) […]

Spring is here, and with it the first sunny days, the first colored flowers and the desire to spend some time surrounded by the awakening nature. For Easter Monday, for an unusual Sunday, the nature and the sun invite us to prepare a nice outdoors picnic with family or friends. Everyone loves picnic, the adults, […]

We started traveling to meet some of the eco-sustainable accommodations of Ecobnb network and learn about the people who every day are committed to reducing their carbon footprint. We went in Umbria, the green heart of Italy, where we spoke with Filippo Bozotti in Monestevole about authentic experiences and environment preservation. Daniele Venditti, of the Albergo Diffuso Sotto […]

The Sienese hills enclose unexpected beauty, art, culture and amazing landscapes. It is a unmatched, romantic and antique scenery. Unforgettable colors and shapes seem to form a dream. The scents and the genuine products of the earth are delicious flavors of yesteryear. The cypresses, the hills of Mount Amiata, the narrow streets of the medieval […]

Italy focuses once again on sustainable tourism. In what has been declared the National Year of Walks, Abruzzo has decided to recover an old abandoned railway near Pescara and turn it into a picturesque cycle-pedestrian trail that goes into the green and blue heart of the region. It happens more and more often that abandoned railroads of our […]

Ecobnb arrived on newsstands in Germany: the quarterly travel magazine Holiday and Lifestyle dedicated a short article about our community, entitled NACHHALTIGER REISEN! (Sustainable travels). In the pages dedicated to travel and internet you can read: Bio-Hotel? Eco-Farm? Or maybe a bed and breakfast? Who wants conscious travel in Italy, you should keep in mind […]

The numbers in the study of the MacArthur Foundation, presented at the opening of the World Economic Forum in Davos, are alarming and shocking. If nothing will change, if mankind will continue to destroy the seas of the Earth, in 2050 there will be more plastic than fish. Our plastic production does not diminish but […]

Walking in the woods helps fight negative thoughts: there is a new study to prove it, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, conducted at Stanford University by researcher Gregory Bratman. The study (which you can read here) involved 38 subjects living in urban areas. They were subjected to a questionnaire designed to […]