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Let’s push the green economy
The economist Iñaki Barredo talks about how to advance an economy that increases quality of life standards and offers ample development opportunities while improving the environment. The “squaring of the circle” and effectively from the linear way in which we are used to thinking, it sounds really utopian to propose that more growth and development…
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Green economy for a worthwhile development
The environment is one of the areas in which the Basque Country has improved the most in recent years. Significant deficiencies have been resolved in the field of sanitation, waste, management and recovery of contaminated soils, air quality, water,…, which were undoubtedly very significant ballasts of the Basque model developmental. The indicators reflect this (consult…
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Cycle lanes on the tube: have they gone crazy in London?
The growing population of London has led to squeeze ideas and imagination to the maximum in order to build an eco-friendly city in which it is also possible to circulate fluidly. Traffic congestion and crowded pedestrian areas mean that many people avoid taking their bikes to get around the big city. The youtube channel GenslerTV…
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Mondragon Unibertsitateak Ikerketaren aldeko apustua egiten du
Mondragon Unibertsitatearen ikerketa erreferentzia bihurtuko da nazioartean, goi- teknologiako Europako lau proiektuetan part hartuko baitu.Orain onarturiko eta 36 hiletan zehar garatuko diren proiektuek guztira 50 milioi euroko aurrekontua dute.Unibertsitateak sendotu egin du bere ikerketa hainbat alorretan, hala nola Energian, 4.0 Industrial eta Fabrikazio aurreratuan. Horiek strategikoak dira eta sector especializazio adimendunaren europar eta euskal estrategiren,…
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Circular economy. An innovative approach to the environment
“Circular Economy” is one of those fashionable words that has settled in our vocabulary and is serving to set the tone for environmental policies in European countries. But what is it and why is this new concept so relevant? In a simple way and to understand each other, a circular economy is an economy without…
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The Basque economy also grew in the fourth quarter
According to quarterly short-term report prepared by the Department of Treasury and Finance of the Basque Government, in the fourth quarter of 2014, the Basque economy intensified its growth rate until reaching the interannual variation rate at 1.9%, half a point above its previous value. With this, it chains four quarters of increasing increases, from…
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Does competitiveness solve market failures?
Microeconomics Professor Jeffrey Ely from Northwestern University explains two reasons why markets can be inefficient. The first problem we face has to do with incentives. In any transactionbuyers and sellers in any market have incentives to manipulate prices to get a good ask (higher the better) or buy (lower the better) price. The second problem…
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Deusto gets hooked on industry 4.0
Laying of the first stone of DeustoFabLab with the presence of the Mayor of Bilbao[ /caption] On March 27, the first stone of the laboratory was laid digital manufacturing Deusto FabLab sponsored by the University of Deusto and the Bizkaia Provincial Council to promote creativity, innovation and design in the development of new products, services…
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The AVE in times of cholera
FEDEA has prepared a study on the cost of high-speed rail in Spain and its social profitability. The report has been prepared by Ofelia Betancor (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) and Gerard Llobet (CEMFI). It analyzes the social and financial costs and benefits of high-speed lines currently operating in Spain. The analysis confirms…
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The earth speaks!
Actor Edward Norton gives a voice to the land in this saga of videos made by the environmental organization Conservation. The saga is titled Nature is Speaking and celebrities such as Julia Roberts, Harrison ford and Kevin Spacey among others give voice to different parts of the planet to make a criticism and try to…