Sustainability circles and the role of resilient citizens
The second Cenacle of Sustainability took place on Thursday evening at Podere Lesignano, in San Marino, one of the many operational offshoots put in place by San Marino and the Montefeltro Green Festival in these over 4 years of activity. “The Cenacles of Sustainability represent – as Gabriele Geminiani Patron of the 2 festivals says – the will to give a ‘home’ to all those people embittered by the distorted behavior of the system. People who, in dialogue and in comparison with other people similar to them, feel somehow relieved and induced to react”. “An experiment in human biochemistry” as defined by Geminiani himself, who works on the basic affinities of a group of citizens who grew up alongside the festival on issues of the environment, social justice and ethics in general. A laboratory that represents, to all intents and purposes, a small attempt at bottom-up change. Within the format, alongside relational, convivial and training moments, there is also a planning space, i.e. the faculty of the group to give life to initiatives open to the entire community of Montefeltro and beyond. In this second cenacle there was much talk of the environment in a naturalistic and ethological sense with the presentation of the book by Riccardo Santolini “Oasis of Torriana and Montebello. Value and ethics of a territory”. Santolini, professor of Ecology at the University of Urbino, focused on the new ecosystem and faunal balances or imbalances, see the demographic surge of wild boars and in parallel of wolves, at the base of which there is always the senseless hand of the man. With the attempt, often equally clumsy and approximate, to remedy it. The other theme of the evening, that of differentiated waste collection, introduced by Mirkare Manzi, co-owner of the San Marino waste collection company IAM, Igiene Ambientale Management Srl, aroused a lot of interest and stirred up a lively debate, in a constructive and never polemical. During the evening, Alberto Chezzi, a sensitive person and brilliant artist, a travel companion of the festival and present at the first cenacle, was remembered for his untimely death. “Someone on the subject of resilience – concludes Geminiani – he had drawn up a handbook in just 4 points: resist, study, network and lastly, annoy. And the cenacles at the moment best embody the first 3 points. For the fourth, we see a due time”.