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1978 Fiat Ecos (Pininfarina)

Ilari Valbonesi @ December 21, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Study for an environmentally-friendly electric city car, realised in co-operation with the Fiat Research Centre. The ecological sensibility would become only later of wide interest.
Source: pininfarina spa.
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Krapfen attack!

Ilari Valbonesi @ December 12, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Bombs filled with cream were hurled against the base of Partito Democratico in the square of Sant’ Anastasia in Rome.
Around 10 a.m. people with covered face threw the krapfen and escaped before the police arrived. Apparently their aim is to protest against the security reform process under way in Italy.
A reference to terror […]

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DAILY ECHO

Ilari Valbonesi @ August 8, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Herbie Hancock, Rockit - 1983 Best R&B Instrumental Performance. Constructed and composed during the recording process at various studios, Rockit was perhaps the first popular single to feature scratching and other turntablist techniques, performed by Grand Mixer DXT, using turntables as a musical instrument.
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DAILY ECHO

Ilari Valbonesi @ July 21, 2007 # No Comment Yet

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Piotr Kropotkin on the Decentralisation of Industries

Luca @ July 17, 2007 # No Comment Yet

Some thinkers talked about the importance of local production when ecologism wasn’t even an idea: “a reorganised society will have to abandon the fallacy of nations specialized for the production of either agricultural or manufactured produce. It will have to rely on itself for the production of food and many, if not most, of the […]

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