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nuclear issues
The issue of nuclear energy is becoming more and more similar to religion. Either you believe or you don’t believe, a matter of faith. Faced with such a complex issue, and with so much information for and against, one sometimes has existential doubts about which side to position oneself on. More so when you see…
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Only China can think of a city of 260 million inhabitants
A few weeks ago they went out to plans to establish a large megapolis in China, the result of administrative unification and territorial development not yet urbanized, included in the area formed by the now large Chinese cities of Guangzhou, Shenzhen and including Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Zhuhai, came to light. Jiangmen, Huizhou and Zhaoqing (Pearl…
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The 10 Commandments of a Technology Center in Trouble
I have a friend who says that in this life to survive the best thing is to be ugly like hitting God in Lent, which taste disgusting and smell like burnt horns. Of course he’s referring to those cute critters, whose charming appearance or coveted shiny skin has pushed them to the brink of extinction,…
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Is it difficult to innovate in companies?
In recent times I have received a large amount of information through different sources about the different methodologies to implement innovative processes in a company. Each one of the articles, posts or comments that I have read made business innovation a clearly complex system, which can only be unraveled through the multiple existing processes, approaches…
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The new cities of 2025, a new urban hierarchy
A new report has been published which analyzes the future of cities in the coming years and reviews trend data on urban economies around the world and how population dynamics and economic globalization will change – and are already doing – the hierarchies of cities. The study, Urban world: Mapping the economic power of cities,…
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Some more notes about Indonesia
In relation to previous post, I add some extra material related to deforestation in Indonesia. First, the report Illegal Logging in Indonesia. The environmental, social an economic cost. According to this study, some 108,110 square miles of forest disappeared between the years 1990 and 2005; while in 1960 82% of the Indonesian surface was covered…
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50 heroes in Fukushima?
Or would it be more correct to call them the precarious 50? Since the start of the “nuclear crisis” in Japan, it has been extraordinary for me to see how firefighters, the army, and mostly, plant workers risked their lives to control the serious situation at the plant and avoid, if possible, an even worse…
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Reforestation work continues in Indonesia
Karmele Llano, 2007 Naider Action and Commitment Award, directs for more than two years a project for the protection and conservation of the forest in Sumatra, Indonesia. During this time, from Ekopass and Naider we have followed and accompanied the work of Karmele, trying to support the proper development of the project from our sphere…
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Of dogs, cats and men
On March 25, the citizen initiative noalmaltratoanimal.orghas organized meetings in various cities of Spain to collect signatures that allow tougher penalties against animal abusers. This article seeks to support this initiative arguing that acts of animal abuse have to be harshly condemned and punished because they hide a potential danger not only towards mistreated animals,…
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nuclear moratorium
The serious events that occurred at the nuclear power plant >Fukushima have been a turning point in the international debate on nuclear energy. In a context characterized by the progressive increase in the price of oil and the worsening of climate change due to the combustion of fossil fuels, the nuclear industry hoped that public…