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Happy birthday, Ecobnb! On February 12 it’s Ecobnb’s first birthday and we want to share this milestone with every person we encountered during our wonderful first year of life, a year full of excitement, travel and important achievements.   It all started a few years ago when Simone has noticed how difficult it was to […]

The European Cycling Challenge is coming back! Every year during the month of May, there is the greatest team challenge between urban cyclists in Europe. The SRM of Bologna in 2012 gave rise to this original and fun campaign to promote the use of bicycles, a symbol of an increasingly necessary sustainable mobility. Get the […]

They took our hand and brought us with them on their travels, with their words and their pictures we walked between wild nature and literary landscapes. We cycled with them by bike and climb mountains. It was not easy to choose between all the participants, but in the end we did it. Here they are […]

Did you know that the product consumption (including production, transport and distribution), represents about 50% of CO2 emissions contributing to climate change? This is nothing new: the average of waste generated each year by each inhabitant of Europe is 525 kilograms, and need to be reduced drastically. Our lifestyle based on consumption should evolve in the culture of reuse, […]

Within twenty days in Paris the International Climate Conference will open. From 30 November to 11 December 2015 political representatives from around the world will meet to discuss climate, global warming and clean energy to achieve a universal and binding agreement on the solutions to be undertaken and the objectives to be achieved. The meeting in […]

From September 1st to 6 2015, we are going to travel to a greener future. It’s called Eco Future, and is the exhibition dedicated to eco-sustainablility and self-construction. The location is perfect: the beautiful hills of Umbria, halfway between Gubbio and Perugia, at the eco-friendly village Libera Università di Alcatraz. The most innovative people of Italy in the field of ecology […]

All art is but imitation of nature, Seneca said almost 2000 years ago. And of course, when we find ourselves in front of the nature we often feel to contemplate one of the bestDo It also happens in front of Dolomites: you are surprised by their beauty, like a huge natural sculpture. Can you imagine the Dolomites […]

Sustainable tourism could be the key to let discover to travelers from all the World the Italian excellence, in culture, arts, scenery and food, protecting the environment and enriching local communities. If also you belive in that, the appointment is the next 1-2-3 October at the national railway museum Pietrarsa, in the beautiful Bay of […]

The small towns and villages on the outer edge of big cities usually just become satellites: it’s the city where life plays out, and those small towns are just empty urban conglomerates where people go back to, to relax and sleep. Cassinetta di Lugagnano, a tiny village just 26 km from Milan, was supposed to […]

Every year on June 2nd is the World Day for Responsible Tourism. This year’s theme (9° edition of the World Day for Responsible Tourism) is communication and marketing. Sustainable tourism should become mandatory, experts say. Yet many non-profit organizations and NGOs denounce the green-washing of the big multinational corporations of the tourism. There is a big difference between […]