* This blog is not been updated for more than four months. The long hiatus is due to the fact that I had much work to do, the summer was full of commitments that have added to my usual activities so much so that I even had to give up to my usual cycling tour in September. This despite my formal conditions are very good and now, just left a nice sauna, go back to compose some thoughts. Also to meet the many readers who, a little disappointed and a little worried in recent weeks I have written.
Several months ago I asked a good friend to help me make a carpenter's job in the restructuring. I had no time or desire to do everything myself, and so, being also need to contribute to a bricklayer, carpenter, introduced me to his friend Nicholas. Nicola told me that he participated in the restoration of the Cathedral of Siena and went to work assisted by his son Enzo, but already the first day I realized that it was two pitchers. They did not know to do their job. Nicola soon threw in the towel and asked her brother Joseph to replace him. The good Joseph (I came as a former foreman of the famous manufacturer Impregilo) intervened helped by the friendly son Michael, but after a decent start, the two remedies outrageous mistakes. Reluctantly I had to liquidate them.
L'imbarazzato falegname mi presentò dunque un suo altro amico muratore, Marco di Collalto (Sinalunga, Siena) che venne in visita: affacciandosi su di una cisterna in giardino ebbe l'accortezza di dire che "vi avrebbe rinchiuso dentro un albanese e lo avrebbe lasciato a marcire lì". Il buon Marco, toscano democratico, fu liquidato all'istante e successivamente affidai il lavoro da fare in cisterna a due bravi ragazzi pugliesi che, ironia della sorte assieme ad un albanese, fecero finalmente bene.
Potrei dilungarmi a raccontare per filo e per segno i fatti che comprovano la generale inettitudine della maggiore parte degli artigiani da me conosciuti nel tempo (e andrebbero aggiunte le varie ditte fornitrici di materiali that shine for their efficiency). But it would be boring besides pointless exercise. It is often said that "the Italians are creative." I think you are referring to exceptions.
E 'be helpful in relation to the topics covered in this blog, make a few observations based on direct experience accumulated over the years:
1) Italian homes (to limit ourselves to this part of the world but the same considerations apply elsewhere) are generally worthwhile because those who inhabit them, that they design and build that they have no culture of 'living. There are exceptions, but this is the norm.
2) in poorly constructed houses we live badly. A good deal of health problems of Italians from the fact that they live in unhealthy homes, full of poisons and no natural light. Without natural light the brain does not work ergo there must be a correlation between the rate of mass stupidity and quality of places of 'living mass. Many new apartments have bathrooms without windows. I understand that it overlooking the forest is a privilege reserved for few, but I do not understand how one can defecate well in rooms without natural light. It 's a terrible limitation. In return, the houses are full of standard ports, in addition to stealing several square meters otherwise useful, are a symptom of narrow-mindedness.
3) The residential sector accounts for about 30% domestic consumption of electricity gross and about 30% of total energy consumption. The construction and management of houses is the key area that requires drastic action in order to reduce overall energy costs and the load of pollutants emitted into the atmosphere.
Various Nicholas, Joseph and colleagues believe that the cement and construction material is great, if not blocked, puts it anywhere they can. It's worth mentioning that the cement production is a major cause of anthropogenic emissions of CO_2. The cement industry contribution to global production of greenhouse gases is estimated at 5% dunque assai rilevante. Inoltre le case costruite col cemento sono gelide d'inverno e soffocanti d'estate dunque sono pessime e richiedono ulteriori costi energetici. Il giovane Michele mi disse un giorno con orgoglio che "a casa sua aveva l'aria condizionata". Ammetteva dunque di vivere in una casa-colabrodo ma non se ne rendeva conto. Gli spiegai che il condizionatore in realtà scalda anzichè rinfrescare. Non lo aveva mai sentito dire. Il sintomo di un'edilizia fallimentare era per lui sintomo di benessere acquisito. Peraltro anche tante persone presunte colte credono che il condizionatore d'aria serva a far fresco e lo usano in casa e in ufficio. L'ignoranza di massa è talmente sconfinata da risultare persino buffa.
E 'then interesting to note that all these Omoni then and there appear to be very strong after a while may become weak. What these people have in common that make a real slice of Italy?
a) They are all pumped full of drugs, even the very young, at least they were operated ulcer or diabetes. Weigh on the regional and national health care system and therefore also on me. I do not see why I devas pay fixed contributions and savory in this system which, however, does not use ever since my last entry in an Italian pharmacy dates back to 1995 and was by mistake.
b) I'm addicted to cigarettes, they spend a significant fraction of the time Working smoke and throw cigarette butts on the ground, it is right to educate them.
c) They spend several hours of their days, even non-working, sitting in the blazing car. Money they spend for various rivers and burning fuel. Joseph came to visit me one Sunday morning at 12: he got up at six and had already done 700kms in motion, from the Tyrrhenian Sea to the Atlantic, with a group of friends. I said with a glint of pride that he was the leader!
d) Do not ever read a book and lead lives based on the boring routine.
e) They feed so horrible ... do not eat breakfast in the morning or, if they do, they swallow biscuits, jam and sweet stuff. There are those who eat biscuits and drinking UHT milk. The bongiorno starts in the morning. At mid-morning their labor productivity falls just ... it's hot start to sweat and complain ... lunch stop working and they swallow oiled pasta, meat and sausages ... at four in the afternoon are exhausted. It is said that "the Italians eat well, follow the Mediterranean diet." That fact does not exist.
f) In the evening, rattling in front of the TV. At 50 years are over.
E 'obvious, it is clear to me for years that the major energy issues of our time as long as they find positive solutions will not change radically the individual lifestyles prevailing in Italy and many parts of the world. Environmental issues are, in this sense, a consequence of the absence of mass culture. I'll be back with concrete examples on this link.
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