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• AI Act: the European Parliament approves the world’s first law regulating the use of artificial intelligence
• The larches felled for the Cortina bobsleigh track will be many more, according to a scoop by ‘L’altra montagna’
• Recharging in Italy’s ancient beech forests, a UNESCO heritage site
• Slow tourism – The Vigezzina Centovalli Railway turns 100
• ‘Eco-Taliban’: what the neologism taking the web by storm means, according to Treccani
• The Dune Costiere Regional Park: an oasis of sustainability in Puglia
• Città 30. Bologna gets serious

  In November 2022, Bologna launched the ‘Bologna Città 30’ plan, lowering the speed limit to 30 km/h on many streets to improve safety. Despite the controversy, from 16 January 2024 penalties will apply to those who exceed this limit. The change mainly affects central and densely populated areas, with a few exceptions at 50 km/h. Fines vary according to how far the limit is exceeded, with a tolerance of 5 km/h. The plan includes checks with speed cameras and laser speed guns, aiming for zero road deaths, improved public health and the promotion of sustainable mobility.

• Artificial intelligence as an ally for a sustainable future? -2
• Christmas 2023: discovering handcrafted gifts
• Siena is the first Italian city to obtain GSTC certification
• Eco-activists or eco-vandals?

  Eco-activists - For some time now, young, sometimes very young, environmentalists have begun to express their dissent, mostly in Europe, over the lack of concrete political action against climate change by attacking works of art and monuments, without, they claim, causing any damage.