REINTEGRATION ECONOMY
Giving back to biodiversity, the added value generated by work, through activism.
The Reintegration Economy requires that 100% of a company's revenues (after deducting costs, investments and taxes) be allocated to projects aimed at reintegrating biodiversity.
Every business generates an impact on the environment. The model promoted by the Fondazione Capellino aims to give back to nature what its production activity takes from it. An objective motivated by the awareness of having to restore to biodiversity, through activism, that added value that productive work generates.
Companies such as Almo Nature and Patagonia represent examples of Reintegration Economy, donated - by their owners, in different ways - to non-profit foundations.
We differ from other foundations because we finance ourselves. Every time you buy Almo Nature dog and cat food, you take part in the activism that the Reintegration Economy generates.
We have commissioned the Catholic University of Milan to study the role that the Reintegration Economy model can have within the new economic paradigms of sustainable development. It is a work in progress, which accompanies the evolution of the model. For further information, consult the complete 2021 study in English.
The Reintegration Economy - Full Study
Our areas of intervention
The Fondazione Capellino identifies, with the help of national and international scientific institutes and experts, projects aimed at safeguarding the biosphere. We act in each of these areas both with projects that we manage directly and with projects whose management is assigned to third parties. Our areas of intervention are:
Our History
The history of the Fondazione Capellino,
told by its founder Pier Giovanni Capellino
told by its founder Pier Giovanni Capellino
2013
The first step:
to follow a new path.
to follow a new path.
I started to think about the environmental problem and how to contribute to the solution, evaluating different ideas. Little by little. the idea of not choosing the easy path, that is, selling Almo Nature to one of the many suitors, but of transforming Almo Nature itself into an instrument of change takes hold.
2018
The Reintegration Economy is born.
The name is not yet this but the idea is... giving back to biodiversity the added value generated by work, rather than taking from nature to increase individual wealth. From January 1st, I choose to renounce dividends forever and deprive myself of much of the accumulated wealth eighteen months later with the full support of my brother Lorenzo, by donating Almo Nature entirely to the Fondazione Capellino.
2023
A Modus Operandi that took time
The synthesis led us to define an action model focused on relevant, scientifically supported projects, capable of having a concrete impact on the increase of biodiversity and the creation of replicable models, which we conduct directly using research institutes and experts , or to which we contribute financially when managed by third-party partners.