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Naider

  • precipitated deaths

    Last week, and after the success achieved, re -they broadcast on La 2 the documentary “Buy, throw, buy” that explains how the The non-durability of things is not a random component or the result of our bad luck. Among other things, it reveals how electrical appliances, mobile phones, pantyhose, ipods, computers and other objects that…

  • Kampala, the city of the future

    The space exploration work that the various agencies (NASA, ESA, Russian Federal Space Agency, etc.) make public often offers striking images. The night photos us they show territories expanded in a surprising way, forming mega-regions whose scale is difficult to observe from the daily perspective with which we live. And when these images are comparable…

  • Parking in a world of cheap oil

    The backstory about this photo is complex and it has more to do with baseball, the purchase of a team for a high price and the plans of the new owners to do more than just manage a professional baseball team. An uninteresting story from that point of view. What impresses is the photo. It…

  • Fighting against private car invasion….in 1896

    Some weeks ago I came across a great story in < a href="http://www.theurbancountry.com/2011/07/roads-werent-built-for-cars.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Urban Country blog. The photograph shows the front cover of the San Francisco Call, headlining a demonstration of thousands of protesters -more than 100,000 according to the newspaper- who gathered to protest against what started to be an excessive presence…

  • Open innovation as a tool for business diversification

    In the last few weeks I have listened to the same song several times : “whoever comes out of this will come out stronger” referring to companies that survive this terrible economic crisis. Enduring, weathering the storm, digging in… are terms used every day in our companies to summarize the survival strategy they are carrying…

  • The big themes of Rio+20: some previous notes

    The Rio+20 Sustainable Development Conference represent the meeting international environmental issues in recent years. The inherent transversality of the environment as well as the economic, social, and environmental aspects of sustainable development raise the political importance of the meeting to the highest level, since important conclusions will be derived from it that will guide the…

  • the worst omens

    The worst omens are here. That there would be cuts in public spending was to be expected, but I did not want to imagine that this would be the only thing that our political representatives were going to present to us in the budget project. Cutting to invest in the future was the wish that…

  • First of all, illegal

    These days of Christian devotion (we are in the middle of Holy Week ) seems to have encouraged the hierarchy of the Catholic Church to make an effort to be unsympathetic and show their media strength in their tireless fight for social involution and, in this case, the spread of homophobia. So far, surely nothing…

  • Understanding energy consumption with Open Energy

    You may already be familiar with the project Open Energy. If not, take a look at this because the work of Fran Castillo< /a>, Oscar Marín Miró and Christian Szucher to define an energy consumption visualization platform designed for a distributed energy model in which the Internet of Things will increasingly play a growing role….

  • Adaptive urbanism for times of crisis

    The temporary city, written by Peter Bishop and Lesley Williams, is a very well organized journey through the different types of temporary projects in the city, whatever the names they take (temporary, transitional, interim, pop-up or meanwhile). Although the book is basically a review of British experiences, the analytical framework is perfectly valid for other…