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Domestic eco-innovation: the kitchen proposed by Philips
Via Design Probes, Phillips imagines what the future of cooking and our diet.Expanding the concept of eco-innovation, beyond life cycle analysis, home automation or environmental technologies, It investigates how a symbiotic home could be set up in which waste is reused as a source of energy and fertilizer or how to create a domestic environment…
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Deforestation in Indonesia: Karmele Llano tells us in Naider
Recently Karmele Llano (Naider Action and Commitment Award 2007) in Naider to tell us first-hand about the problem of deforestation in Indonesia. And it is not a minor problem: currently some 2 million hectares a year are deforested; and in the last 50 years some 74 million hectares of forests have been destroyed (surface area…
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Innovation, entrepreneurship and sustainability. Three recommended readings
To end 2011, I would like to recommend through this blog three of the books that I have had the pleasure of reading this year and whose reading I recommend to all lovers of innovation, entrepreneurship and sustainability. For each of these themes, lines that guide the Ateneo Naider blog, I have chosen the reading…
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We won! First prize for Telefónica-UAM innovation
This week we have received great news here, and is that one of our ideashas been awarded the first prize for innovation from Telefónica Chair of Innovation and the Autonomous University of Madrid, to whom we greatly appreciate their trust and with whom we share our joy. This little push will help us turn our…
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Slaps of reality: Euskadi* fleecing Indonesia
Yesterday, Karmele Llano (Veterinaryfrom International Animal Rescue and with more than 8 years of experience in orangutan habitat protection in Indonesia), Eneko Garmendia (from the research group of Ecological Economics), Arantxa Acha (from UNESCO, Jakarta) and Paul Nicholson (EHNE, the association of Basque farmers) brought us fresh news from that country so far away but…
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Adaptive urbanism. It’s meanwhile time
I am sharing here the document that I used yesterday at the congress debate tableEQUIciuDAD, as well as some notes on the discussion we had, which I think completed my initial introduction well. A brief account of some conditions of the current city -fragmentary, subjective but significant at the end of the day- and a…
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Theater criticism: Durban, from drama to pantomime
The curtain has just fallen on Durban and, once What’s more, viewers have been disappointed at the premiere of a work that, as usual for this director, has not met the expectations of much of the critics. The latest work of the United Nations, COP17, (the promotional poster already says a lot…) has missed another…
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The power of money
Yesterday I saw a documentary on the Documentos TV program from< a href="http://www.rtve.es/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Spanish Radio Television that I liked and want to share on this blog, which by the way had been around for some time I did not upload any article, news or similar. Through interviews with experts from the most prestigious North…
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10 examples of urban data visualization
The complexity of an environment As diverse and changing as the city is, the sum of physical and digital interactions produces an enormous amount of data. The increasing availability of tools to generate, capture, store, manage and analyze this data opens up a wide spectrum of possibilities around this big data. The openness of public…
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Lessons to undertake. What I learned on a trip to Silicon Valley
A few weeks ago I participated in a trip to Silicon Valley from the hand of the Spain Tech Center. On this trip we visited some large American technology companies and we also met some entrepreneurs based in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Although there are many reasons why the trip was very productive for…