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Video: Why is scientific culture important?
We live in an extraordinarily technical environment, however, as a society, we suffer from a great ignorance of “scientific”. This video from the Chair of Scientific Culture of the UPV/EHU advocates for a society with a better understanding of its environment and better-formed criteria.
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The danger of green gentrification
The creation of parks, green areas and ecological corridors in neighborhoods and cities can lead to the exclusion of the most vulnerable social groups, if “verification” is not accompanied by adequate housing policies. This is clear from a study by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona led by…
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Video: 10 exemplary practices of urban transport
The social cohesion of the city through escalators and cable cars in Medellín, the pedestrianization of one of the most famous public spaces in the world in New York, or the largest public bicycle system that exists in Hangzhou. The Streetfilms organization collects 10 of the best examples of sustainable public transport practices in large…
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A computer tool for saving energy at home
The Basque technology center IK4-Ikerlan has developed a computer program called Home Energy Analyzer, which makes electricity consumption at home more efficient. The program, aimed at the customers of retailers in the area of operation of Iberdrola Distribución, is available as a free extension of the Google Chrome browser. The tool analyzes the energy consumption…
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European Awards for Urban Public Space
The European Awards for Urban Public Space are a biannual recognition, created by the Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB) in the year 2000, in order to recognize and promote the public nature of urban spaces as well as their capacity of social cohesion. Unlike other contests, it aims to recognize urban surgery interventions,…
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Sustraiak Habitat Design, regenerating habitats and ecosystems
Sustraiak Habitat Design is a Basque cooperative whose mission is to design, coordinate and implement multidisciplinary services on the territory and facilitate processes of comprehensive regeneration of habitats and ecosystems. Sustraiak Habitat Design works around four areas: The Design and Implementation of Habitat Regeneration Projects; the Implementation of Environmental Management Solutions; the Accompaniment of Community…
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Partnering with nature to decontaminate the soil
Neiker-Tecnalia, the University of the Basque Country and the Vitoria-Gasteiz Center for Environmental Studies participate in the European project PhytoSUDOE, which seeks to advance the use of phytoremediation as a solution to recover soil biodiversity contaminated. Phytoremediation consists of the use of fungi and plants, and by extension the ecosystems that contain these plants, for…
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Video: Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2016
The technology trends that promise to transform our world, according to a panel of experts assembled by the World Economic Forum.
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A new residential neighborhood where cars do not pass
In the German city of Mannheim, a former US military base will be transformed into a new residential neighborhood where there will be no roads between homes for cars to circulate, but rather a network of fully pedestrianized spaces: including playgrounds, streets and paths with fruit trees, and orchards attached to the houses. Funari Project,…
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The Basque Country stands out on the innovation map
The Basque Country is the only autonomous community in Spain classified as a region of high innovation (Strong Innovator) in the recent Regional Innovation Scoreboard (RIS) published on July 14 by the European Commission, which was echoed by Innobasque. In the RIS or Regional Innovation Table, which measures innovation performance in 220 territorial units of…