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  • For defending a living planet

    This is the speech I read yesterday at the presentation of the2010 Naider Action and Commitment Award for sustainability and fight against climate change to Juan López de Uralde. September 15 of next year, 2011, will mark the 40th anniversary of the intrepid voyage the small ship Phyllis Cormack made from Vancouver to stop US…

  • Antanas Mockus, from urban leader to president of Colombia?

    Antanas Mockus (former mayor of Bogotá in the 1995 periods -1998 and 2001-2004) is very well placed for the Colombian presidential elections and it also does so from theGreen Party. A Colombian president of the Green Party? Who is Antanas Mockus? A strange character, of course, strange by European standards (his appearances dressed as are…

  • Juan Lopez de Uralde: Everyone’s prize.

    People who know me a little know that one of The speeches I have stuck in my heart are from Severn Suzuki, an environmental activist who at the age of 13 gave a speech at the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992 which even today and although I practically know it by heart, manages to…

  • City Regeneration Policies need a change

    During the last 30 years neoliberal Inspiration city regeneration policies have shaped many of European and US cities. It was back in the 1980’s when there was a general consensus on the role of a particular type of projects as the right way for regeneration of many cities of the time. The aims were: Join…

  • Will we need the volcanoes to meet Kyoto?

    More than a year ago month of the volcano eruptionEyjafjallajokull and at this point there is not much need for him to explain the consequences of his activity on aviation European. What not too many have bothered to calculate and explain have been the consequences on CO2 emissions that have been avoided “thanks” to the…

  • Climate change policies and strategies in Vitoria-Gasteiz

    The Next June 3 in Vitoria-Gasteiz we will have the opportunity to learn about the policies and strategies that are being deployed around climate change in Europe, Spain and the Basque Country. These are the Conferences on Climate Change. Administrations, Citizenship and Companies: Shared Responsibility, where a representative of the EU will intervene, among others;…

  • The challenge of the cities of the future. Agenda 2030

    Citizen Agenda 2030 for Science and Innovation is a social outreach action recently launched by the Ministry of Science and Innovation href=” and the http:/ href=” /www.fecyt.es/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>FECYT and which includes 14 great challenges that we will face in the coming years and how some personalities from different disciplines propose to face them. One…

  • Dreamlands exhibition. From the urban dream to the theme park

    An exhibition entitledDreamlands. This exhibition tries to identify how international fairs, universal exhibitions and leisure parks have increased their influence on the way in which the city is conceived and designed. From an eminently critical perspective, the exhibition presents three hundred works (films, documents, modern and contemporary art, architecture) that explore the relationship between urban…

  • Urban Biosphere Reserve

    For a few years Brighton & Hoves, a city of renowned track record in environmental matters, aspires to become the first Urban Biosphere Reserve. According to the MAB Program (Man and the Biosphere) of UNESCO, biosphere reserves are places that innovate and demonstrate the relationship between conservation and sustainable development. These sites are under the…

  • The 50 most innovative companies in the world

    Annual BloomergBusinessWeek presents a list of the fifty most innovative companies in the world. Last week they published 2010 list highlighting that, for the first time in history, this list is dominated by foreign companies (from outside the US) and a relentless rise of Asian companies. Asia no longer just copies but innovates and a…