Italian Farmer Vows Green Revolution

Lorenzo Fasola-Bologna Calls His Project 'the 360 Degree Green Revolution'

Global warming was a sore subject in Italy this week.

(Phoebe Natanson/ABC)

First Italy squashed Europe's hope to push through a climate package that would show the world Europe was serious about halting global warming.

Then the European Environment Agency announced that Italy, Denmark and Spain were still "off their Kyoto track" and would not meet their individual countries' targets for cutting emissions under the Kyoto Accord.

But in all this gloom, there was a bright spot in Umbria, the "green heart "of Italy.

A small Italian olive and wine producer has decided it's his task to make a big example and has decided to show the way.

Meet Lorenzo Fasola-Bologna, a dashing 37-year-old with a winning smile, big ideas and lots of energy. He calls his project "the 360 degree Green Revolution." He has set himself a challenge: to cut his family farm's CO2 emissions to zero by the end of 2009.

"It is not about changing one thing," he said. "It's about making many multilayered changes. It's a 360-degree change!"