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Expensive Snow: The Environmental Cost of Fake Snow
Every year, winter sports attract many tourists in the ski resorts, and when there is a lack of natural snow, we move to the production of artificial snow with snowmakers, when is sufficiently cold to maintain it. Nevertheless, the creation of artificial snow, diffused also thanks to global warming, implies the consumption of an impressive […]
Continue readingWinter holidays in Italy: 6 green locations not to miss
Feeling in need of clean air, silence and enchanting places? Here there are six unique and eco-friendly locations in Italy for your winter holidays in the snow. There’s a little village where cars can’t even go through (not even a single one!) and a mountain, which seems to be made specifically for walking with ciaspole, snowshoes. From a […]
Continue reading5 itineraries with snowshoes in Italy that you can’t miss
Snowshoes were probably invented in Canada, in times very distant, perhaps as early as 6000 BC. Since then they were used by the inhabitants of the Arctic areas to move, by the peoples of the Asian mountains to hunt and by woodsmen of the Alps collecting firewood. Now snowshoes, which are no longer made of […]
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