Don't waste It's a site of news, stories, stories e advice on a new lifestyle. A change that each of us can put into practice, with benefits for everyone. In fact, not wasting means, first and foremost, saving, in the simplest and most effective ways. By reducing unnecessary and compulsive spending, avoiding accumulating items we don't even use, and making conscious and responsible purchases. And discovering the pleasure of the reuse, recycling, reuse , riparazione.
Our editorial line is based on the compass provided by the 17 Sustainable Development Goals identified by the UN, to be achieved by 2030. These goals embody the broader and more modern meaning of Sustainability, as we at Non sprecare understand it: a 360-degree approach to a new lifestyle and a new sense of well-being. For a better life for all of us. In the meantime, let's remember the 17 goals.
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End poverty in all its forms. Too many people still live on less than $1,25 a day. Furthermore, poverty has risen again, and the gap between the very rich and the very poor has widened, with a frightening concentration of wealth.
Eliminate hunger. This target is combined with others, put together by the UN Agenda: achieving food security, improving nutrition, promoting sustainable agriculture.
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Ensure healthy conditions and well-being for all at all ages. Health care around the world is also unbalanced. Vaccines that in some parts of the world are considered standard and affordable are not yet available in other parts of the world.
Provide quality education. That is, an education that is equal, without any discrimination, inclusive and non-rejecting. One that promotes learning opportunities for all, throughout life.
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Achieving gender equality. Women remain severely discriminated against, by violence and incredible disparities in the workplace, from access, especially to top positions, to wages, which are highly unequal and lower than those of men.
Ensure the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. Water shortages, besides creating the conditions for high mortality rates, especially among children, are a major cause of conflicts and wars. These are only seemingly local, as sooner or later they reverberate around the world.
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Ensure access to clean, affordable and sustainable energy for all. The energy transition, which must allow the growth of renewables, cannot be the exclusive preserve of the richest countries and most developed regions. It is a goal that must be shared by everyone, everywhere.
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth. Economic growth in recent decades has been largely fueled by the rigged engine of waste. More production, more consumption, more waste: this has been the paradigm. It's about identifying a new development model, capable of providing effective solutions, first and foremost for employment.
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Building resilient infrastructure. The world needs it, especially in the poorest and least developed regions. But these infrastructures must be truly useful, sustainable, and reliable in terms of technological innovation.
Reducing inequalities between countries. They are still too severe and must be mitigated through income redistribution policies. Wage policies and the social safety net must also be aligned across countries.
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Making cities and communities safe, inclusive, resilient and sustainable. The urban population is set to grow, and today the demand for security is at the forefront of citizens' concerns. A safe city must also be welcoming and open.
Sustainable consumption and production patterns. That is, reducing waste, at all levels, which stunts the economy and causes enormous damage to social cohesion.
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Combating climate change and its impacts. The concrete goal is to ensure that global temperature rise does not exceed 1,5 degrees Celsius by 2030. This goal is currently beyond the reach of the governments that signed it in 2015.
Safeguarding the oceans, seas and marinas. The marine ecosystem, which is very delicate, is put at serious risk not only by speculations that take place both on land and at sea, but also by the invasion of perennial waste, such as plastic bags and microplastics.
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Protecting terrestrial ecosystems. Stopping land destruction for speculative purposes and protecting biodiversity: these goals can be achieved with simple, everyday gestures of common sense.
Promote peaceful societies. Where justice and human rights are guaranteed for all. Where institutions function effectively, in the interests of citizens and the entire community.
Revitalizing global partnerships for sustainable development. Sustainable development involves small, daily actions that we must all make as individuals and as communities. But it also involves political choices that must be made in the appropriate supranational forums.
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Don't waste is the daily update of a strong gesture, revolutionary. A gesture that allows us to look at others, and not be alone and self-centered in our behavior: when we throw bread in the trash, leave the lights and heating on at home, we waste tap water. Saving money, therefore, is not an end in itself, but helps defeat the scandal of indifference, the root of all waste.
Do not waste, by nurturing a new lifestyle, responds to the need for a new economic growthHealthy, balanced, sustainable. And not drugged. The news and stories the site publishes from around the world demonstrate that the fight against waste brings widespread employment and well-being, not concentrated in the hands of the usual suspects. It allows for expanding opportunities, also thanks to a careful use of technology, and rediscover ancient and very modern crafts, From 'handicraft atagriculture, from neighborhood shops to ride-sharing services for getting around the city.
A new lifestyle, as described on the site, is the conquest of long-term health, with natural methods: walking, climbing the stairs on foot, going in bicycle, following a healthy diet. And it's also the affirmation of paradigms, with their psychological and physical benefits, that seemed forgotten: kindness, honesty, lightheartedness, gratitude, good manners.
Not wasting means having fun, growing a vegetable garden or recycling old objects destined for the garbage bin, practicing every day, with a good dose of smiles, that integral sustainability, which embraces things and man, nature and feelings, carved in the 17 objectives of the UN Agenda 2030. Among which the site does not neglect the fight without quarter to poverty, inequalities, gender discrimination, destruction of the territory, climate change.
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The genesis of the Non sprecare website is contained in three books, Don't waste, It takes very little e Selfishness is over, all written by Antonio Galdo and published by Einaudi. To contact the editorial staff, you can write to our email address [email protected] or follow us through the pages of Facebook, X e Pinterest.
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