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  • How do we design cities to improve Climatic Comfort?

    Cities suffer from the so-called Heat Island effect whereby the temperature inside the city is higher than it should be. The World Health Organization (WHO) warns of the influence of the heat island on human health and many cities are already beginning to change their way of designing the city to take into account the…

  • Euskadi is in debt to the world

    Yesterday the Basque Government made public the Ecological Footprint of the Basque Country. Report that has had the technical assistance from NAIDER following the calculation standards international. From this report it can be concluded that, despite certain advances, the Basque Country continues to be a debtor territory. The consumption of the Basque population, as well…

  • Naturalization workshop at the upv-ehu

    Last Tuesday, NAIDER went to the public university of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU) to hold a talk-workshop with third-year Environmental Science students. The session entitled Management of sustainable cities and naturalization design workshop allowed the students to be introduced to the main global challenges in terms of urbanism and the environment. Specifically, they learned how…

  • Wooden towers, an alternative to glass and concrete

    We may see wooden skyscrapers in the next decade, says Centre for Natural Materials Innovation at the University of Cambridge. The construction of wooden buildings can respond to a double challenge: provide habitability solutions to a growing world population that increasingly moves to the cities, and do so with constructions that do not further contribute…

  • What would a city designed by women look like?

    Urban planning conditions the functioning of the city and its inhabitants. To date, those who have planned cities have been mostly men of working age thinking about the needs of men of working age. This has triggered in today’s cities, zoned into production areas and rest areas connected by heavily motorized mobility. To start getting…

  • #cop25: last stop for laggarers, climate summit, madrid, december 2019

    The success of the international strategy regarding climate change will be measured in degrees. The objective is based on preventing the average temperature of the atmosphere from rising above 2ºC compared to what existed in pre-industrial times. To do this, we must reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere: the higher the level…

  • What criteria must a city meet to be sustainable?

    Today is World Cities Day without us being entirely clear about what a sustainable city should be like. Social inequalities skyrocket from one neighborhood to another. Just by crossing the street, your neighbor’s hope can be 10 years less than yours or vice versa. Access to work or the quality of it also presents great…

  • Lisbon, European Green Capital 2020

    Lisbon will be the next European green capital, taking over from Oslo the capital of Portugal will be the one who makes visible during the next year which are the policies implemented and the changes generated in environmental matter. The award that Vitoria-Gasteiz held in 2012, today recognizes the capital lusa for various advances in…

  • Increase in household spending on Energy

    In the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, energy has gained a lot of weight in household spending in the last decade. On the one hand, the price of energy has increased notably, and on the other, since 2008 family spending on other items has decreased since 2008. This and other information on energy consumption…

  • Recycling yes, but it’s not enough

    Some images speak for themselves. Every day the equivalent of a stack of plastic bottles half the size of the Eiffel Tower is sold around the world: drinks, yoghurts, cutlery, sauces, fruit trays, shampoo bottles… . Plastic does not leave everyday parcels untouched, and the problem is that even recycling does not seem like a…