Dario Tamburrano

Dario Tamburrano
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Member of Parliament for Central Italy
Incumbent
Assumed office 01 July 2014
Personal details
Born	(1969-08-27) August 27, 1969
Political party	5 Star Movement
Profession	dentist

Dario Tamburrano (Rome, 27 August 1969) is an Italian environmental activist and one of the first members of the Five Star Movement (Movimento Cinque Stelle, M5S) elected in the European Parliament.

European Parliament

In May 2014 he was elected as one of the 17 Members of European Parliament (MEP) of the Five Star Movement (Movimento Cinque Stelle, M5S) in the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy Group (EFDD).

He is serving as full member in the Industry, Research and Energy Committee (ITRE), full member of EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Delegation (D-RU), substitute member of the Agriculture and Rural Development Committee (AGRI), substitute member of the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation (D-UA) and substitute member of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (DEPA).

Earlier political activities

After having worked as a dental specialist in endodontic, laser dentistry, implant prosthetics and aesthetics, he decided to reorient his life: focus on the relationship with patients as well as commitment to society and culture. He joined the Five Star Movement (Movimento Cinque Stelle, M5S) in 2005. Since 2006 he is a member of the Meetup Sostenibilità e Decrescita (Meetup Sustainability and De-Growth), Meetup di Roma (Meetup of Rome) and Meetup Nazionale Gruppo 280 (The National Meetup Group 280), where he had the role of assistant organizer, promoter and manager of the environmental and translation groups.

Since 2007, he created a website on energy independence where texts are published for free consultation, usually in integral form.

In 2007 he was co-organizer of the V-Day, created by Beppe Grillo. In 2008, he contributed in the creation of the non-party list "Amici di Beppe Grillo" (Friends of Beppe Grillo) in Rome for the municipal elections in 2008. He was involved in the election campaign, the set-up and management of the online communities as well as cultural events.

He was the first signatory of the three referenda on "Free information in a free state" together with Beppe Grillo (2nd V-day).

In January 2009 he became a co-founder of the Circolo delle Decrescita Felice di Roma (Club of Happy De-Growth) and of the Transition Italia movement (Italian node of the Transition Network).

In 2009 he joined three organisations: ASPO Italia (National Department of Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas), Archipelago (SCEC) and ISDE (International Society of Doctors for the Environment).

In 2013 he volunteered in the parliamentary group of the Five Star Movement in one of the Chambers of the Italian Parliament (Camera dei Deputati), as an assistant on environment, energy and finance issues with the specific focus on the legislation of electric vehicles. Since 2014 he cooperates with the local group in Rome of the Five Star Movement on environment, food security and on circular economy.

Education

He studied dentistry at the University La Sapienza in Rome and graduated in 1996 with a thesis on "Dental Management of the HIV+ child".

Additional Information

Often working together with other activists, Tamburrano voluntarily translated the following publications into Italian:

• Lester Brown: "Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization", Piano B 3.0-Mobilitarsi per salvare la civiltà, Edizioni Ambiente 2008;
• Lester Brown: "Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization"Piano B 4.0-Mobilitarsi per salvare la civiltà, Edizioni Ambiente 2009;
• Paul Hawken: "Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming", Moltitudine Inarrestabile. Come è nato il più grande movimento al mondo e perché nessuno se ne è accorto, Edizioni Ambiente 2009;
• Richard Heinberg, Michael Bomford: "The Food & Farming Transition: Toward a Post Carbon Food System",La transizione agroalimentare, verso un modello indipendente dai combustibili fossili, Post Carbon Institute 2009;
• Rebecca Hosking: "A farm for the future", Una fattoria per il futuro, BBC documentary 2010;
• Daniel Lerch: "Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty",Post Carbon Cities. Come affrontare l’incertezza energetica e climatica. Una guida al Picco del petrolio e al riscaldamento globale per gli amministratori locali, Post Carbon Institute 2011;
• Chris Martenson video-course on Economy, Energy & Ecosystems.: Crash Course 2011;
• David Fleming and Shaun Chamberlin: "TEQs (Tradable Energy Quotas): A Policy Framework for Peak Oil and Climate Change", TEQs: politiche di decrescita emissiva ed energetica per l’epoca del Picco del petrolio e dei Cambiamenti climatici, House of Commons 2011;
• Lester Brown: "Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity",Nove miliardi di posti a tavola. La nuova geopolitica della scarsità alimentare, Edizioni Ambiente 2012;
• Jorgen Randers: "2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years". Scenari globali per i prossimi 40 anni, Edizioni Ambiente 2013;
• Asher Miller and Rob Hopkins: "Climate after Growth: Why Environmentalists Must Embrace Post-Growth Economics and Community Resilience",Scenari dopo la crescita, Post Carbon Institute 2014;
• Benoit Thévard: "Europe facing peak oil",L’Europa di fronte al picco del petrolio.

Between 2009 and 2012 he also published several articles in the Italian online magazine Il cambiamento . In 2012, he also participated in a documentary by Roberto Cavallo Meno 100 chili, Ricette per la dieta della nostra pattumiera tratto dall’omonimo testo ( Edizioni Ambiente 2012).

Besides his activism, Tamburrano cultivates a vegetable garden and organic saffron in his family country house located in San Giovanni a Piro (national park of Cilento, Italy).

External links

• Personal profile of Dario Tamburrano in the European Parliament's database of members