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Slaps of reality: Euskadi* fleecing Indonesia
Yesterday, Karmele Llano (Veterinaryfrom International Animal Rescue and with more than 8 years of experience in orangutan habitat protection in Indonesia), Eneko Garmendia (from the research group of Ecological Economics), Arantxa Acha (from UNESCO, Jakarta) and Paul Nicholson (EHNE, the association of Basque farmers) brought us fresh news from that country so far away but…
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Adaptive urbanism. It’s meanwhile time
I am sharing here the document that I used yesterday at the congress debate tableEQUIciuDAD, as well as some notes on the discussion we had, which I think completed my initial introduction well. A brief account of some conditions of the current city -fragmentary, subjective but significant at the end of the day- and a…
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Theater criticism: Durban, from drama to pantomime
The curtain has just fallen on Durban and, once What’s more, viewers have been disappointed at the premiere of a work that, as usual for this director, has not met the expectations of much of the critics. The latest work of the United Nations, COP17, (the promotional poster already says a lot…) has missed another…
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The power of money
Yesterday I saw a documentary on the Documentos TV program from< a href="http://www.rtve.es/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Spanish Radio Television that I liked and want to share on this blog, which by the way had been around for some time I did not upload any article, news or similar. Through interviews with experts from the most prestigious North…
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10 examples of urban data visualization
The complexity of an environment As diverse and changing as the city is, the sum of physical and digital interactions produces an enormous amount of data. The increasing availability of tools to generate, capture, store, manage and analyze this data opens up a wide spectrum of possibilities around this big data. The openness of public…
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Lessons to undertake. What I learned on a trip to Silicon Valley
A few weeks ago I participated in a trip to Silicon Valley from the hand of the Spain Tech Center. On this trip we visited some large American technology companies and we also met some entrepreneurs based in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Although there are many reasons why the trip was very productive for…
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New York bets on startups
A little over a year ago I analyzed on the blog the movements of the then recent new British government regarding its commitment to developing in London an technology-based hub (Silicon Roundabout used to be called then; today, with the most advanced project , often referred to as East London Tech City). You can see…
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The internet of energy and the Third Industrial Revolution
Jeremy Rifkin publishes a new book, The Third Industrial Revolution: How lateral power is transforming energy, the economy, and the world. Things being as they are, an industrial revolution seems to arrive sooner or later or is already arriving without us realizing it. As in other books, the author manages to draw trends that will…
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Starting a business in San Francisco
A week in Silicon Valley and San Francisco goes a long way . To meet many entrepreneurs willing to conquer the world, to make contact with investors looking for the next technological phenomenon, to soak up a contagious illusion to create technology and innovation; to undertake. Seeing first-hand how big tech companies work is certainly…
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A few days from Durban
A few days before the start of the Durban Climate Summit The Guardian exposes in an article the notable increase in coal consumption recorded in recent years. While in Durban an attempt will be made to negotiate an agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, for which it is essential to reduce the consumption of fossil…