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Cooperative and participative supermarkets
In 2016, he opened the cooperative and participatory supermarket La Louve in the 18th arrondissement of Paris (“La Loba”), which contrasts with the prevailing consumption model. In it, those who consume are cooperative members and workers: they must donate 3 hours of their time every four weeks in sales, replacement, or maintenance work. In this…
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Concession of aid for the preparation of landscape action plans
The Department of the Environment, Territorial Planning and Housing of the Basque Government has published the resolution granting subsidies to the Town Halls of the C.A. of the Basque Country, as well as the Councils of the Alava municipalities, for the elaboration of Landscape Action Plans. Aid of up to €30,000 euros per plan (without…
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Bilbao enters the ranking of the smartest cities
Bilbao is among the 10 smartest cities worldwide, according to Smart City Index (SCI) presented by the Smart Cities Observatory of the IMD World Competitiveness Center. The Index evaluates 102 global cities by conducting a perception survey among the citizens themselves in five key areas: health and safety, mobility, cultural activities, employment and educational opportunities,…
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Let’s rethink industrial estates to reduce their impacts
Urbanism, like any other subject, evolves by adapting criteria and points of view from other areas, incorporating innovative elements, scientific approaches, and popular participation as a way of understanding the mechanisms of communities. urban theory has needed to evolve to incorporate extralocal and global processes to the understanding of the urban phenomenon. Industrial estates bathe…
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Donostia urban lur: agriculture in the city,
Fomento San Sebastián/Donostia Sustapena promotes the project Donostia Urban Lur where the following is offered to those who want to undertake a business project based on the production of agricultural products: suitable land and infrastructure for cultivation, tools to work them, technical training itinerary in agriculture and business for the execution of the business project…
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slow fashion
Fast fashion brands, with their constant rotation of collections and their affordable prices, have accustomed us to brand new clothes every so often, but the ecological cost is high. Considering the production process alone, the textile industry emits 1.2 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere – more than aviation and shipping combined -. Added…
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From Milan to Liuzhou: plant architecture
The reconnection of the city with nature begins to take shape in the collective imagination of more and more cities. The bucolic image of futuristic cities immersed in a vegetal blanket, typical of science fiction cinema, has also occupied space in the heads of many architecture studios. Fictional architecture has contributed to imagining long skyscrapers…
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#cop25: seeking leaders for the great challenge
Taking stock of international summits on climate change still depends on whether the bottle looks half full or half empty. The summit held on September 23 in New York is of course no exception. The famous speech by young Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has gone viral, highlighting the inability of politicians to bring carry out…
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European Business Awards for the Environment, 2019-2020.
The Directorate General for the Environment of the European Commission summons all companies on the continent to the new edition of the European Awards for Environment to the Company. Companies that consider the protection of the environment as part of their business activity have a new appointment. Basque companies have been previously awarded, which is…