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Octopus Investments Ltd. started generating power from five subsidy-free solar plants in Italy in the latest sign that clean-energy can be profitable without government support. The plants have a two-year fixed power price agreement in place with Italian power trader Green Trade SA, said Matt Setchell, head of renewable energy investments at Octopu...

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When Gaetano Donizetti’s operatic tragedy Lucia di Lammermoor opens at the Santa Fe Opera in July, women touched by the tragic-romantic performance can bury their memories in a new, authentic Italian “Lucia Clutch” handbag. The handmade leather clutch comes from artisan workshops in Italy through a limited-edition offering by Santa Fe startup “ital...

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Pisana, laureata all’Università di Bologna, PhD a Cambridge e oggi Associate Professor al Dipartimento Studi Classici della Stanford University, Giovanna Ceserani è tra gli artefici di un inedito progetto di Digital Humanities: tecnologia digitale al servizio degli studi umanistici. Mapping the Grand Tour è un’elaborazione visuale dell’enorme mole...

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The Italian Trade Agency of Los Angeles, in collaboration with the Los Angeles Venture Association, is pleased to invite you to the event Sardinia Goes Global. The event will take place at the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles on June 9, from 6:30pm. to 9:15pm. Linked below the event website where you can find all the relevant information –...

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An Italian company, Magaldi Group, has developed a new technology under the name of STEM (Solare Termodinamico Magaldi / Solar Thermo Electric Magaldi) to use sand as a storage system and concentrate solar energy. The firm’s installations capture sun rays and reflect them onto a huge mirror, which then redirects the sunlight into a cylindrical stee...

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Annurca apples, Amalfi lemons, and Vesuvian apricots: these typical products from the Campania region and the coastline are being used as bases in luxury cosmetics. Through a deal between Trento-based Effegilab, a company that specializes in preparing natural cosmetics, and Palazzo Avino di Ravello, a five-star luxury organization, apples, lemons,...

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L’anniversario della Repubblica è stato celebrato a Los Angeles nella cornice istituzionale dell’Istituto Italiano di Cultura. “La Repubblica Italiana” - ha sottolineato il Console Generale Antonio Verde - “si fonda saldamente su valori universali di libertà, giustizia, uguaglianza e rispetto dei diritti umani, prezioso contributo di sviluppo e pac...

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The idea of open-source isn't something you come across very often in the car industry. In most cases (make that "in every case"), if one company comes up with something it had spent a lot of time and money on, it will guard it as best it can against the competition.  That's how things work in a competitive environment. It's not how they necessaril...

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Judy Starkman, who worked as a London-based feature documentary filmmaker for networks, such as ABC, CBS, CNN, and SKY-TV, alongside several incursions in still photography and the shooting of commercials, has been constantly training her storytelling skills, from a visual and informative perspective.  She is married to Bill Lagattuta, a former awa...

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The Italian company Cama Group is the winner of the Best Future Machine Award 2017, aimed at rewarding the highest levels of innovation in the packaging industry. The competition has been launched by the American company Rockwell Automation, which is the world’s largest provider of industrial automation and information products, with over 22,000 em...

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