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100 proposals from the Mixed Commission on Climate Change, although they are late…
The non-permanent Mixed Commission for the study of climate change has approved a report with more than 100 proposals to deal with climate change. The document, the result of more than two years of work, has had the participation of dozens of experts and agents involved, also collecting all the initiatives and planning actions that…
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A Basque Country committed to climate change
The recent invitation to the lehendakari to preside over the alliance of regions associated with the public-private organization The Climate Group has been, in the words of its director general, Mark Kenber, in recognition of the proactive work that this country has been developing in recent years in the fields of clean and intelligent energy…
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Nokia: investment in R&D does not mean innovation
The bump that Nokia is suffering, with a drop in 44% of its sales this year highlights the enormous dynamism of the technological world. It is evident that Nokia has failed in several of its technological bets and that its alliance with Microsoft at the moment casts even more uncertainty about its future. But what…
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The love between technological centers. Story of a merger.
“In a global context marked by uncertainty… .” This phrase is the “once upon a time” of the consulting world. The malicious will think that I say it because it is the first sentence that we consultants say at the beginning of all the stories we write. But not. I say this because this sentence…
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Urban laboratories without people. From the German Quarter in Utah to the Smart City in New Mexico
A long time ago I read Dead cities. Ecology, catastrophe and revolts. Some of the stories detailed by Mike Davis are creepy, especially in everything that has to do with the use of the central desert of the United States as hidden territory for carrying out nuclear tests. The book is a compendium of uneven…
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History of urbanism. 6 videos
Since a year ago I did the compile a series of videos on urban policies for an audiovisual session in the courseRethinking urban policies 30 years later I have not Stopped saving references. Under the category videos of Delicious I currently count 220 references of audiovisual material focused on the themes of this blog. Maybe…
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City and technology at 30 Next Ame
A few weeks ago < a href="http://americancity.org/magazine/issue/i30/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Next American City, one of the most accurate ways to follow news and emerging issues in urban issues, publishes its 30th issue, dedicated to the relationship of cities with the new technological currents that seem to offer solutions for improving urban functioning. Most of the articles are…
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Electrical system simulator tests
Via Pedro Linares I have reached simulator of the Spanish electricity system created by Alberto Ferrero Cándenas for the Technological Research Institute of the Comillas Pontifical University. The tool, still in testing, offers the possibility of playing with different parameters (efficiency and % of national and imported technologies for electricity generation) to simulate what the…
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Trust in Apple is trust in innovation
This week Apple has surpassed Exxon as < strong>the most valuable company in the world, signifying a business milestone that illustrates the confidence of markets and investors in innovation. We all know the meteoric rise in both price and sales that Apple has experienced in recent years after the latest addition of Steve Jobs. Apple…
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smart city. Emerging technologies for urban functioning
I take advantage the summer to leave in a unified document the posts that I published a few months ago on the subject of smart cities, which have generated so much information avalanche in recent times. There were a few articles that tried to organize somewhat the different analytical perspectives on a complex issue due…