Meaningful Community Impact | Avery Dennison | Sustainability

Mario Cucinella Architects and Wasp, Italy’s leading 3D printing company, have completed the first house to be 3D-printed from raw earth. The process coined Tecla (standing for technology and clay) is eco-sustainable and environmentally friendly due to the production being zero waste and needing no materials to be transported to the site as it uses local soil. It took just 200 hours for multiple printers to construct the 60-square-metre prototype in Ravenna, Italy.

Sustainable Gastronomy Day was first observed on 18th June 2017, led by the UN General Assembly, UNESCO and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). What is sustainable gastronomy? Many of us use these buzzwords in everyday conversations but the FAO break it down in a more thought-provoking way: Gastronomy can be described as the style of cooking of a particular region; a cultural expression of the world’s natural and cultural diversity. Sustainability considers how to carry out processes in a way that is not wasteful of natural resources – and that can be continued into the future without any detrimental effects.