Year III March-April 2011 n. 2
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C ONTENTS INTERVIEW Matteo Ricci, President of the Province of
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E DITORIAL Massimo Ghiotti - General Manager
We do not inherit the Earth from our parents, we rent it from our children. Indian proverb Imagine if our energy supplies were suddenly cut off. No gas for the boiler, no more electricity, no more fuel at the filling station. Everything would stop – lifts, computers, telephones. No more food from afar, no more product manufacturing and distribution. Without energy, we should have to quickly start tilling the land, raising animals and digging wells. Many are the things we take for granted. Push a button to start the dishwasher; turn a key to start the car, lift up the phone to call your loved ones or customers or suppliers, send an email, go to the café for a coffee or to the supermarket to buy food to eat and water to drink. The fact is that we do not give enough importance to energy, we do not think about saving it and even less so about how to obtain it. San Marino buys nearly all its energy abroad. It has no energy resources of its own and so producing some inside the country and maybe adopting sys-
tems to save it is most definitely a strategic priority. A step in the right direction then are the incentives already implemented by the State for the application of eco-sustainable technologies such as photovoltaic panels, or those for the restructuring of homes according to energy-efficiency criteria. Because every kW we save or produce is a kW less that we have to buy outside and, furthermore, if we manage to save and create new jobs at the same time for those who design or install the new technologies we shall have obtained a double benefit. All the advanced States have placed the Green Economy at the centre of the growth of their economies. The building and plant engineering sectors in San Marino have been hit hard by the crisis. Just think if the conditions were created whereby all or at least part of the companies operating in these sectors were to become highly expert in eco-sustainable technologies through a new period of restructuring of all the homes in San Marino, thus acquiring skills to be subsequently used beyond our borders What we need is courage and plenty of incentives,
but the solution is the right one, because over the years the State spends what it saves and it is as if it were entering into joint ventures with its citizens or companies, investing money for current and future public saving. We need not invent anything. All we have to do is learn from those who are best at it, define clear and achievable goals and put together the people who have to do the necessary jobs. And it is in this spirit that, for the past four years, the San Marino Chamber of Commerce has been organizing Ecomercatale, the eco-compatible technologies and products Fair, uniting its energies with those of the Coordinamento per l’Agenda 21 and of the Borgo Maggiore Town Council, placing its confidence in the strength of the Green Economy to revive our economy. And it is for this reason that we have together set ourselves a number of goals and created the team which will help us to reach them. Ecomercatale will be the right place to talk about what has already been done and no longer about what needs doing.
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