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  • Conama 2018

    This week we have been in Madrid attending the 2018 National Environmental Congress (CONAMA), with the intention to nurture ourselves with new ideas, concepts and experiences that can help us to propose transformation projects towards more sustainable societies with an eye on 2030 since “in the next decade the great transformations will accelerate”. Over the…

  • The plant that turns CO2 into stone

    Sounds like science fiction, but Iceland is home to a pioneering power plant capable of capturing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and transforming them into solid mineral. In this way, CO2 is stored permanently and is not released into the air. As reported by Smithsonian, it is a process that has been experienced for decades,…

  • Video: Sea of ​​plastics

    If we don’t reverse it, by 2050 there will be more mass of plastic than fish in the sea, something that our bodies notice.

  • The snows of the Pyrenees, at risk

    The central Pyrenees will lose 50% of its snow in 2050, and up to 80% before the end of the century, according to the projections of the report “Climate Change in the Pyrenees” coordinated by the Pyrenean Observatory for Climate Change, which includes La Vanguardia. Since 1959, temperatures in the mountains have risen 30% more…

  • Bilbao, pioneer city council in the use of blockchain

    Bilbao City Council will be a pioneer in the State in using blockchain technology. On October 30, it published the opening of a public tender for the development of a decentralized blockchain network. It will be used, specifically, for the Electronic Registry of Power of Attorney, so that the different administrations will be able to…

  • The need to eliminate paper tickets

    When paying in a bar or in a store, we often receive, without asking for it, a purchase receipt that we leave at the counter and ends up in the trash. An unnecessary waste of paper that should follow the same path as plastic bags. In addition, these tickets are usually printed on non-recyclable thermal…

  • Video: The protected bike lane

    The introduction of more protected bike lanes, in spaces that were previously dedicated to car parking, has made many people lose their fear of getting around New York on two wheels. The number of habitual cyclists has tripled in ten years, and the city has benefited in terms of economy, mobility and safety, thanks to…

  • Zarautz, a plastic-free city

    Zarautz, a reference town on the coast of Gipuzkoa, wants to become the first municipality in the State to banish plastic bags. Taking advantage of the European directive 2015/720 that has prohibited the distribution free of plastic bags before eradicating them in 2021, the Zarauztarra city council proposed to get ahead and go further of…

  • Video: The resilient nature

    The BBC shows us how quickly trees have once again taken over space in a ghost Soviet mining town in Abkhazia -between Georgia and Russia-, which had 5,000 inhabitants in the 1970s.

  • Norway breathes easier thanks to the electric car

    Bergen, Norway’s second largest city, has the best air quality in the last 15 years. Levels of the deadly nitrogen dioxide (NO2) – attributable to motorized traffic and heaters – have fallen to pre-1990 levels, according to data from Elbil collected by Clean Technica. The secret? Strong incentives to purchase electric cars and other zero-emission…