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Rediscovering the right to the city in times of coronavirus
As if it were a Kafkaesque novel, one day you wake up and you look out over the open street from the balcony. The rustling of the leaves is heard of the trees and the chirping of sparrows. Not a car. Not a bustle in the city. You take a breath of fresh air to…
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Post-coronavirus society: rebound or decoupling effect?
Jevons paradox or rebound effect: An increase in the efficiency of the consumption of a resource may not decrease the consumption of that resource, but rather increase it. Economic intuition tells us that the improvement of efficiency (for example, energy) allows people to use less of that resource. However, the Jevons paradox – so named…
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European capital of innovation award
The European Commission has opened the deadline to present nomination for the European Capital of Innovation Award 2020. The purpose of the prize is to reward the most innovative urban ecosystem whose practices serve as a reference model. Cities that have developed and implemented innovative policies; they have facilitated citizen participation in the search for…
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Earth Hour in the coronavirus crisis
The WWF invites us today, as every last Saturday in March, to participate in Earth Hour, symbolically turning off the lights to reflect on our carbon footprint and what it means for the health of the Earth and those of us who inhabit it in her. The appointment comes this year, as is evident, in…
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Eco-lagarde on the look
On July 31, the European Banking Authority (EBA) will publish the results of the stress test to which the banking sector is subjected on a biannual basis. The stress test consists of simulating different adverse economic scenarios to quantify how these hypothetical conditions would affect a bank. This year we will not see scenarios in…
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Indartu 2020 program
The Department of Economic Development and Infrastructures of the Basque Government has convened the Indartu 2020 Program< /a> which allocates aid to companies that make productive investment that leads to competitive improvement and economic development, to promote the Left Bank Ría del Nervión and Oiartzualdea Zones and other municipalities with an unemployment rate of more…
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What is happening in our mountains?
What is happening in our mountains? Why has the Cantabrian coast burned in recent years? Why do the pines turn brown after a particularly wet spring? Why are there so many floods and landslides after heavy rains? What is the cause and effect of this situation? What will happen when heat waves and torrential rains…
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The circular economy action plan irrumps in europe
The European Commission has presented the Circular Economy Action Plan to ensure that circularity and efficiency act as a “prerequisite for climate neutrality” in line with the Agreement European Green and Industrial Strategy. The current economic model based on “take, make, use and throw away” is a linear model that generates great waste, degradation and…
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The maker community joins forces to provide solutions to the health crisis
Health professionals and engineers and technologists — from different fields, companies and organizations globally — are joining forces through the network to provide open source alternatives to critical supplies in the medical and hospital system, in the face of possible stockouts . As proof of this, in the public group Open Source COVID19 Medical Supplies…
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Provision of technical advisory service to the environment area of the ortuella city council.
The NAIDER team is going to contribute all its knowledge about the environment and municipal sustainability for the provision of Environmental and Tourism Advice to the Ortuella City Council over the next few months*. We will make available to the council the different tools and expertise in the field of environment and tourism to position…