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main features the following characteristics: portability , high visibility, recognition and flexible and formal materials. In addition, the mainmast provides a point of wi-fi connectivity while the sail takes security-place features , support for projection, for exhibition and educational moments . 5_Ethical - Educational Showcase: The last phase is sharing and witness the experience carried out to the outside . Through the web portal and sharing ethical - educational travel experiences, the system exports the model and expands the network. Amorgos - study model Amorgos is an ideal system to update the model, with a consequent opportunity to be the precursors of an experimental method that, given the favorable social and territorial conditions, it is almost necessary. It easily identifies the main elements to be exploited, such as food supply, thus introducing a zero km production; water supply, taking advantage of the presence of wells and the presence of the sea; infrastructures, taking advantage of the 400 km of trails and reducing polluting transport; renewable energy linked to the presence of wind and sea, and the possibility to make a democratic, cooperative and liquid society. Amorgos has the opportunity to pioneer a model, a new way of thinking and living in both the society and the country, without economic investment but empowering and engaging the community. JOIN THE CAUSE!
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Island is social, Island is cooperation. Island is now.
Island was established as a response to c cealed needs; communities plagued inaction and absence of territorial polic feel the need to take an alternative a unexplored route , in order to improve th living conditions and enhance their own te tory . Island is a programmatic pentalogo mo that accompanies the community in a p cess of growth and development : it orga zes, analyses and suggests paths a methods for collective growth , commun and territory planning. Island is cooperation, development a social responsibility.
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