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Reflections of a currela that remains…
I was about to respond to Carlos’ article with a post Rope on the pension reform. And so I was doing, but as I progressed, I realized that the answer was good enough for a new article. I hope Carlos doesn’t mind. Initially I had thought of this title: “Reflections of a currela who has…
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A global challenge for an urban world
Thinking about sustainable cities is actually a global challenge. In Europe, one of the most urbanized continents, around 75% of the population lives in urban areas, and it is expected that by 2020 the figure will increase to 80%. As a consequence, the demand for land in cities and their surroundings is increasing and, accompanied…
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Night photo of Egypt. The urban bases of a revolution?
I have already shared the fantastic ones here other timesnight images that can be found by searching the archives of the NASA Earth Observatory. Yesterday I came across this one. Little more to say that the photo does not say: what they always told us, that the Nile made Egyptian civilization possible, was true. The…
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An untimely, partial and unfair reform
Workers will have to contribute for 38 and a half years (and no 40) to retire at 65. This agreement has been enough for the two majority unions in the State as a whole to agree with the Government on a reform that is urgent for some but for many others, including myself, untimely and…
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Sustainability and innovation: we continue to think about the concept
Eco-industry, clean technologies, environmental technologies. .. Well, now René Kemp, an expert in innovation and sustainable development, says that sustainable technologies do not exist. This is the provocative title (!Sustainable technologies do not exist< /a>) from one of his latest articles published in the issue 75 of the Ekonomiaz magazine: Eco-innovation. Beyond the factors, the…
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Detroit, photo attraction and urban policy laboratory
Detroit has become the center of almost a tourist attraction, a paradise for photographyof urban spaces in decline that has made it possible to create photographic collections that appeal to the sensibility of the distant observer attracted to those scenarios of decadence in a a city that, barely fifty years ago, was a powerful center…
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The Entrepreneur’s Canvas
Last week I had the pleasure of listen to Anil K. Gupta, Professor at Indian Institute of Management (IIM), coordinator of SRISTI and founder of the Honey Bee Network and Executive Vice President of indian national innovation foundation. His message was powerful and evocative: we must look for entrepreneurship and innovation everywhere: in schools, in…
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Banksy, markets and public space
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15 years ago articles for the environment
15 years ago, on January 23, 1996, it came out published my first opinion forum. It was in the newspaper El País, national edition. I remember the date well as it coincided with my birthday. A leprechaun friend gave me that gift. A detail that I sincerely appreciated. The platform was about climate change and…
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Us. In memory of Labordeta.
I share with you this video that has moved me so much when I have seen and heard it. It is recorded in the Alto Gállego Region. A particular and beautiful tribute to Labordeta, but above all a hymn to hope and to the human being. http:/ /www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kmpS-bfryE A big hug, JOSE ANGEL ROPE