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Video: A camera among garbage
Garbage and rubbish that we should never have left in nearby natural areas come to life in this Polish animated short.
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The house that generates more energy than it consumes
A panel of experts from the Welsh School of Architecture at the University of Cardiff, designed and built a prototype detached house that is capable of producing more power for the electricity grid than it needs to consume, with manufacturing costs similar to those of a comparable home. Part of efforts to achieve near-zero carbon…
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Vitoria-Gasteiz: Smart regeneration for a neighborhood of developmentalism
Vitoria-Gasteiz began last February the path to regenerate the Coronación neighborhood, a neighborhood born from the relentless model of industrial development of 50 years ago that has been dragging a loss of attractiveness and population despite being next to the historic center of the city. The project, which has a grant of almost 11 million…
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Video: The changing city
The filmmaker Keith Loutit has filmed the city of Singapore for 3 years to show that the landscapes we pass through, which seem to us anchored in time, are constantly changing.
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Denmark: Interest rates defy gravity
The European Central Bank or the central banks of Japan, Sweden, and Switzerland have introduced negative interest rates, but in Denmark, where they have had negative rates since 2012, something is happening that seems hard to imagine. There are citizens who charge interest on their home mortgage, as well as companies – for now not…
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B-Venture: Appointment with the entrepreneurial community in Bilbao
Entrepreneurs have an appointment at B-Venture 2016, a startup investment forum that will take place at the Euskalduna Palace in Bilbao on the 18th and 19th of next October. Until June 30, entrepreneurs who have an innovative project and who are seeking support and financing to materialize it, can register on the official website ….
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Video: Elegy for the Arctic
The pianist Ludovico Einaudi in concert among the icebergs of the Arctic, to raise awareness, hand in hand with Greenpeace, about the need to create a marine protected area in the Arctic Ocean, the first in international waters. The Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR) will decide before…
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The benefits of renewables outweigh their costs
A doctoral thesis prepared at the University of the Basque Country by Telecommunications engineer Cristina Pizarro-Irizar has concluded that renewable energies introduced significant savings in the Spanish wholesale market, after analyzing the role of renewables in the electricity system in the period 2008-2013, a period in which renewable energy production grew by 69% The thesis,…
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Video: Cities over time
A study of Yale University has exhaustively traced the development of cities on the map over the past 6,000 years.
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Solutions 4.0 towards the circular economy
The Institute of Technology of the University of Deusto, DeustoTech, coordinates the European project < a href="http://energia.deusto.es/projects/info/waste4think/">Waste4Think, which seeks to advance towards a circular economy by applying eco-innovative solutions to waste management in cities. The initiative, which started this week in Bilbao as stated in the SPRI, will last three and a half years and…