Category Archives: curiosity
Curiosities and news, suggestion for travel (also for free), unusual places to visit, from the ghost towns to the disappeared islands, amazing stories of travel, by bicycle, by foot, donkey, horse back or canoa.

Water is happiness
And if there was a link between our mind, our well-being and water? This is the starting point of the wonderful book by Wallace J. Nichols, a Californian marine biologist, that has collected statistics, studies, experiments and new discoveries in neuroscience that tell of a close link between water and happiness. Blue Mind reveals, through […]
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The winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize
They were awarded a few months ago and we had to talk about them. The six winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2016 are amazing people, the modern heroes, who devote their lives to the preservation of the planet. The prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize award was founded in 1990 and is almost like an ecology […]
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Photovoltaic: Italy is the first in the world
Italy is so many things, and it is also a crowd of people who believe in a better future, more just and clean for the future generations. And this Italy fight for it, arriving there where the institutions still aren’t. So, despite the few incentives for the installation of photovoltaic, Italy is first in the world […]
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Orange Fiber: our clothes from oranges
Take two Sicilian women and a brilliant idea: thus Orange Fiber, the startup that dreams and creates a sustainable and ethical fashion. They are Adriana Santanocito and Enrica Arena and they were able to see and then create a fabric where others saw only an orange. The start-up develops sustainable and innovative fabrics combining oranges […]
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Top 6 italian villages to discover on foot
Reality and fantasy get together in these amazing italian villages. You can reach them only on foot, taking the distance from the reality and discovering green and breathtaking beauties. Let’s go together to discover some of the most attractive treasures of Italy, that you can visit only on foot. 1. To the edge of the amalfitan […]
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Bicycle: the vehicle of our future runs on 2 wheels!
One of the topics more discussed about the environmental themaics talks about means of transport. With the increase of CO2 pollution in the air many prolems are coming out. They risk to damage the life of all the living beings, animals and vegetables. All you need to do is reduce or avoid the intensive use […]
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Women and nature: living in countryside lengthens your life
Women living in the countryside live longer and better, these are the surprising results of a study of T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard that show that women who live surrounded by greenery have a lower mortality rate of 12% compared to those living in cities. The study lasted 8 years and involved little […]
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Living in a Tree house village in Italy
Did you know that there is a small community of people who pass their life in a forest, living in tree-houses? Is not Koroway Tribe in Nuova Guinea but instead people like us that left their boring life downtown to live a life as much as possible melted with nature! The Sleeping Beauty… of the cestnuts […]
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10 wild herbs to pick up and cook
In spring and in summer we have an abound of sunny days, and what better time to go out for a walk in the woods, or simply in a park to pick up some wild herbs? We can take advantage by carring with us a basket and looking for a little wild flower or a […]
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HowManyTrees: if our next coin were trees?
What if we didn’t longer thinks just in terms of “how much money it cost me” before we buy a product or before traveling but we thought “how many trees will it cost?” This is the idea behind HowManyTrees, website of two engineers who we met few days ago. In the website, answering simple questions about your lifestyle, you […]
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