Nature in the city
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Milan is one of the Italian cities with the highest air pollution.
(Photo illustration) AFP
By: Juliette Rengeval Follow
26 mins
Global warming and the pandemic have shown how our European cities, very mineral, have become impossible to live while 75% of the European population is now city dwellers.
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Milan
is one of the Italian cities with the highest air pollution. Located in the Po plain, a landlocked region, far from maritime influences, the city is often unlivable for its inhabitants. To try to remedy this, the agglomeration wants to plant 3 million trees in 10 years. This is the “
ForestaMi
”
project
, which started in September 2019.
Franceline Beretti.
While the city continues to nibble on the countryside and farmland, some are campaigning for urban vegetable gardens which allow cities to produce local, more environmentally friendly production and reconnect city dwellers to nature.
In
Seville
in southern Spain, Miraflores Park, a three-hectare urban vegetable garden, sprang up among the bars of buildings.
A report by
Frédérique Lebel
.
Report financed by the IMCAP program of the European Union.
The content of these reports reflects the position of their authors only and is their sole responsibility. The European Commission assumes no responsibility for the use that may be made of the information they contain.
In
the Netherlands
, to fight against the disappearance of bees, several municipalities have opted for an original solution: greening the roofs of bus stops. Bus shelters which were, until then, barely good at protecting users from the rain.
Antoine Mouteau.
In
Poland
, if the poultry industry has been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, the country remains the European leader in terms of production and exports, with production methods that are gradually changing, as animal welfare is increasingly taken into account.
From 2014 to February 2021, organic farming increased by 420% and free-range farming by 159% for laying hens.
Sarah Bakaloglou
visited the farms of one of the leaders in egg production in Poland, which has already started the change.
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Empireland or how imperialism shaped the UK
The shock wave of the Black Lives Matter movement is still felt, a year later, in Western societies, especially in ancient empires like the
United Kingdom.
This movement for racial justice particularly questions British society, still very steeped in the imperial model.
This is the thesis of
Empireland
, a book by
Sathnam Sanghera
, journalist at The
Times
, that our correspondent
Marie Billon
read
.
Program originally aired on June 14, 2021.
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