The beauty of a space out of time

“A place is never only ‘that place’. We are a little bit that place. Somehow, without knowing it, we brought it inside us…and one day, by chance, we got there” – Antonio Tabucchi

 

The coastlines on the mainland are like borders along the journey by boat to the Aeolian islands, like they tried to remind us that from that point onwards we need to change our rhythm. As the change of rhythm is key to deeply understand the authenticity and the true essence of this bunch of islands hanging in the Tyrrhenian Sea out of the coasts of Milazzo, a bubble of space outside of time where being is still prevailing on doing.

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Businesses that are good for the world

“The nature’s complexity and intelligence show us the guidelines to manage companies and to assign the role to each player within them, with the awareness that the profit does not create value, but the creation of value does generate profit” – Massimo Mercati, MD of Aboca

 

More and more often, aspects like the impact on the environment and the social responsibility, together with the economic figures, are key in the evaluation of the success of a company.

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Do not go back to normality

“A better planet is a dream that begins to unfold when each of us decides to improve himself” – Mahatma Ghandi

 

Sustainable is “the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” states the Brundtland Report, as the report entitled «Our common future» and published in 1987 has been named after the World Commission on Environment and Development’s chairwoman, Gro Harlem Brundtland.

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With the strength of a Lioness

“To each one of us the duty of transforming our wounds into insertion points for the wings” – J.W.N. Sullivan

 

Forced to stay at home, to rethink our daily activities, to restructure our working modalities, fun and relax time. Unable to go out, the life suggests us another direction, closer and more intimate with ourselves. And right in the moment when restrictions confine us in isolation and social distancing, the spread of the virus unifies us globally in the emotional and spiritual dimension.

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