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This includes the national partnership between Legambiente and the Fondazione Mondo Digitale to use technology to avoid waste and encourage recycling.
NONNET or “digital urban vegetable gardens” is a regional environmental training and awareness-raising programme that features the use of computers in the vegetable gardens in Campania. Legambiente Campania and the Fondazione Mondo Digitale promote this project that targets both the elderly and younger students. The programme will be presented on October 19, 2010 (3 pm) at the Cinema Nuovo (piazza Pio X) in Pontecagnano (Salerno) with the participation of authorities, associations, schools and elderly centers.
The initiative is part of the territorial requalification “1000 orti per la Campania” (a 1000 vegetable gardens for Campania) programme launched by Legambiente, an initiative that entails the free allocation of city garden lots to retired citizens who cultivate them with school children. The digital vegetable gardens forge cultivation with web-based environmental training.
On-line areas called “Ortoline” will be reserved for the exchange of experiences, life styles and good cultivation practices. After having learned how to cultivate organic products, the elderly and their young digital tutors will be able to share their most innovative techniques on-line in an Environmental Community and communicate though videos, podcasts and Ortoradio (radio programmes developed by the students). The elderly will learn how to use a computer, e-mail and the main computer programmes through the inter-generational model developed by the “Grandparents on the Internet” Project (currently in its 8th edition) promoted by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale.
Three lead partners will launch the initiative in Pontecagnano and Eboli in the Province of Salerno and in Succivo in the Province of Caserta. At the end of each season, the students will be helped by AIAB, the Italian Association for Organic Agriculture, and expert agronomists to develop an Environmental Education Manual, to share their new knowledge.
