Antonio Galdo He is an Italian journalist and writer.
He lives in Rome, where he founded and directs the website Non sprecare.it, a leading Italian website on sustainability issues based on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda. The site's editorial compass is contained in several books written by Galdo: Don't waste, It doesn't take much, Selfishness is over (all published by Einaudi), Live lightly (Mondadori), The Myth Shattered: How False Sustainability Has Made the World More Unjust (Codice edizioni). In particular, in this latest text, published in 2025, Galdo denounces the current drift under the umbrella of the widespread abuse of the term sustainability, which in reality cannot exist without reducing inequalities. On the contrary, in its false version and application, the development model green it is increasing inequalities, creating new fractures, new walls and new privileges.
The same editorial line is inspired by the Don't Waste Award, which Galdo created in 2009 and currently directs and implements in collaboration with LUISS University.
During his long career Galdo has worked for all the most important Italian newspapers and on television, for over ten years, with Enzo BiagiHis professional career began at the daily newspaper The morning, where he wrote as a reporter while still a university student. A few years after graduating in Economics and Business, and after several work experiences with various newspapers in Naples, Rome, London, and Milan, he moved permanently to Rome. Here, he became a key contributor to the weekly Panorama, where he remained for about twenty years, and in the meantime he signed, as author, several television programs (among these The history of the ruling class in Italy for Rai Educational ) and radio (among these The Palaces of Power, Factories, Wasteful life) For radio 2 and for radio 3.
He had two brief stints as director. The first, at just 28 years old, was when he created the monthly magazine Itinerary in Naples, inspired by an editorial and cultural continuity with the magazine North and South, founded by Francesco Compagna in 1954, after leaving The world by Mario Pannunzio. Galdo was well acquainted with the trajectory of Nord e Sud, having written several articles for Compagna magazine at the beginning of his career. He resigned from his position as editor of Itinerario in 1989 to move to Milan, where he spent two years as a special correspondent for a network of newspapers, including The morning, The Venetian Gazette, Il Secolo XIX, Sicily, The Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno e The messengerThe second stint as director, between 2008 and 2010, lasted less than two years, during which Galdo directed the newspaper The Independent trying to make it the voice of the "Moderate Revolutionaries." An attempt that ended, however, with the newspaper being sold.
Antonio Galdo's books:
- Cash, Rizzoli, 1990
- Interview with Giuseppe De Rita on the Italian bourgeoisie, Laterza, 1996
- Italian Hospital, The Assayer, 1998
- Woe to anyone who touches them. Italy held hostage by corporations: from doctors to railway workers, from gondoliers to magistrates., Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 2000
- Northeast terminus, with Giuseppe De Rita, Marsilio, 2001
- Will they be powerful? History, decline, and new protagonists of the Italian ruling class., Sperling & Kupfer, 2003
- Pietro Ingrao, the unarmed comrade, Sperling & Kupfer, 2004
- Factories: Stories, Characters, and Places of an Italian Passion, Einaudi, 2007
- Don't Waste, Einaudi, 2008
- It takes very little, Einaudi, 2011
- The eclipse of the bourgeoisie, with Giuseppe De Rita, Laterza, 2011
- Don't Waste paperback edition, Einaudi, 2012
- Selfishness is over, Einaudi, 2012
- The People and the Gods with Giuseppe De Rita, Laterza, 2014
- Last, this is how statistics condemn Italy, Einaudi, 2016
- Prisoners of the present with Giuseppe De Rita Einaudi, 2018
- Live lightlyMondadori, 2019
- The Outcasts: The New Ruling Class and the Schools of Power, Il Sole 24 Ore Editions, 2021
- The Myth Shattered: How False Sustainability Has Made the World More Unjust, Codice Edizioni, 2025
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