“No Borders” M’illumino di Meno, together with BuioMetria Partecipativa. Not just night sky quality monitoring.

Following our Jan. 17 article presenting our track record on light and darkness engineering (link 1), and the Jan. 23 article proposing some activity hints (link 2, in Italian), here are some detailed instructions on how to participate to M’illumino di Meno (the Italian National Day of Energy Saving and Sustainable Lifestyles) together with us. … Continue reading “No Borders” M’illumino di Meno, together with BuioMetria Partecipativa. Not just night sky quality monitoring.

A Summary of the First Italian Survey of Hand-made Crochet Hook Christmas Trees

Between Dec. 22, 2023 and Jan. 6, 2024, the pibinko.org network, in collaboration with those who will collaborate, and the endorsement of those who will endorse, organized the First Italian survey of hand-made crochet hook Christmas trees. This was under the art direction of Jennifer the psychedelic reindeer, and the notary Maurizio Ascalzone. The survey … Continue reading A Summary of the First Italian Survey of Hand-made Crochet Hook Christmas Trees

A Year in Review with the pibinko.org Network and the Jug Band Colline Metallifere

We have only one event left to close one year of work with the pibinko.org network and the Jug Band Colline Metallifere: this will be the epilogue of the Fourth Winter Fest, on Dec. 21. We then considered that we might start some housekeeping, by offering you a bird’s eye view on the blog articles … Continue reading A Year in Review with the pibinko.org Network and the Jug Band Colline Metallifere

When Participatory Mapping meets Civic Use: It’s happening in Tatti (Southern Tuscany)

[TO BE TRANSLATED] Il 3 settembre scorso si è avuto a Tatti, frazione di Massa Marittima (GR) il rinnovo del Comitato per l’Amministrazione Separata dei beni ad uso civico di questa località. Per i prossimi cinque anni questa risorsa sarà amministrata da Marco Fiacchi, Sergio Cappelletti, Auro Luti, Guido Maria Bendinelli e Adriano Fronzaroli. L’evento … Continue reading When Participatory Mapping meets Civic Use: It’s happening in Tatti (Southern Tuscany)

The pibinko.org Network in the context of the New European Bauhaus

The pibinko.org network has been acknowledged as one of the first “Friends of the New European Bauhaus initiative” by the European Commission. Below is what we wrote. For more information and booking: micalosapevo@pibinko.org Contact: Andrea Giacomelli <info@pibinko.org> Web: http://www.pibinko.org About us: The pibinko.org network operates since 2007 on interdisciplinary projects on the promotion and/or protection … Continue reading The pibinko.org Network in the context of the New European Bauhaus

Andrea Giacomelli (pibinko) is one of the first stakeholders of the ROSiE project

Andrea Giacomelli (aka pibinko) was invited to be part of the stakeholder group of the ROSiE project. This project is aimed at fostering responsibile open science in Europe. If you are not in the research arena, this might sound a bit cryptic…but you may check out this introduction to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science to have an idea on … Continue reading Andrea Giacomelli (pibinko) is one of the first stakeholders of the ROSiE project

Drivers of artificial light at night variability in urban, rural and remote areas

Luciano Massetti, from the Italian Research Council’s Institute of Bioeconomy in Florence, has published on the Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer and article analysing three years of data collected through the night sky quality meter network deployed since 2016 in Tuscany. The network currently has sensors in Sesto Fiorentino (right next to Florence), … Continue reading Drivers of artificial light at night variability in urban, rural and remote areas