At Ecomondo the flag of the Green Festival
At Ecomondo, leading fair of the green and circular economy in the Euro-Mediterranean area and flagship of Rimini Fiera, the only San Marino presence is that of the San Marino Green Festival, which has been present on the stand for 3 years now. of one of its leading scientific partners, labelab, a company specializing in the sectors of the waste cycle, water and energy. In the aftermath of the closing of the third edition of the festival, its creator Gabriele Geminiani certainly could not fail to participate in Ecomondo, a macro container containing conferences, debates, projects, solutions, technologies and innovations on the issues of the moment around the environment. and waste. For the occasion, we asked him some questions. Gabriele why at Ecomondo?
As every year I am with the enthusiasm and the will to want to collect new ideas and contacts to be conveyed in the San Marino Green Festival. Relationships are the pulsating core of our project, creating new and virtuous ones coming here I find it an unmissable opportunity. At Ecomondo there are startups, companies, multi-utilities, administrations, researchers, communicators in the field of sustainability that it would be impossible to meet. Beyond these relational opportunities, what do you think of this event? I agree with our collaborator Alessandra Carlini, when she says that it is a huge event around which ideas, projects, but above all money revolve. The impression is that we are going too slow, and that the wave will overwhelm us while we still wonder if the cup of coffee goes into the paper or into the staff. Too much business and little will to change, in which you find Eni together with the company that recycles the plastic you shouldn’t use in every way, while virtuous companies disappear among the stands of large industries and multi-utilities. Still hot, can you venture a balance on the San Marino Green Festival that has just ended?
I think it was a great success, not in numbers – which we certainly had a guest like Stefano Mancuso brought to the stage – but in relational dynamics. We have been as mayors and followers of Montefeltro, with whom I have woven deep relationships during the 4 years of the festival. Then the municipality of Brescia became interested in us. Three weeks ago I received a phone call from the President of the Cammarata Municipal Council inviting me to create a twinning with their Peace Festival, bringing to Brescia the exhibition of our Sustainable Archives, the permanent collection of works of art on the environment and sustainability. On November 12th, I and another member of my staff will be guests of the Brescia administration for three days and we will set up and inaugurate the SENZACQUA exhibition, which I had the pleasure of curating together with Annamaria Bernucci, art historian and archivist at the Museums. municipal of Rimini.
And so on the Emilia Romagna side, we brought Emma Petitti, President of the Legislative Assembly of Emilia Romagna, Chiara Bellini, Deputy Mayor and Councilor for Education and Francesca Mattei, Councilor for Agriculture, to the pact on the stage of the San Marino Green Festival for the climate and animal welfare. In short, administrators of neighboring and strategic territories for San Marino such as Emilia Romagna and Rimini, as well as speakers of the highest caliber, such as those of the table on “Eco-sustainability of materials: evolution and future” (Cartiera Cordenons, Colombini Group, Varigrafica Alto Lazio, FSC, etc.), a table to which the Secretary of State for Industry Fabio Righi gave a flat fee at the last minute. The icing on the cake is Sergio Mercuri, Ambassador of Italy to San Marino, a very sensitive and competent figure on environmental and sustainability issues.