Entries written by:

Naider

  • Expensive electoral campaigns, not very creative and very far from the citizens

    I guess we could talk long and hard about the effects of the electoral campaign on the intention of citizens to vote. From what the polls say, it seems that the influence on the vote is minimal. In other words, to change the voting intention of four clueless people, political parties invest huge amounts of…

  • climate lobbies

    It appears that Connie Hedegaard, European climate change commissioner , is concerned about the gas lobby in Europe. According to The Guardian< /a>, while the Climate Change Directorate is trying to go beyond 2020 to set binding emission reduction targets, the gas industry is trying to interfere in the emission reduction policy to introduce the…

  • fragments and traces

    I am doomed to write on the blog. It is, by far, the most practical thing I have found to organize my ideas, readings and proto-thoughts. So, even if they are killed, finished off and sentenced, this is where it will always be easier to find me and where the most obvious traces of where…

  • Pasaia outer dock. More cement no thanks

    The Gipuzkoa 2020-2030 Strategy, designed and promoted by After a three-year process in which hundreds of people and dozens of organizations have participated, the Strategic Office of the Provincial Council has made a clear commitment to moving towards the knowledge and innovation economy, an economy open to international markets, with a solid industrial base and…

  • The expansion of the bicycle in Spanish cities

    The bicycle finally seems to have its moment. This article in El País< /a> last week reviewed this “explosion”. During the last decades, environmental awareness and the awakening of sustainability policies have been creating the breeding ground to understand the necessary transformation of the urban mobility model. It has always been there as an option,…

  • Invasion of the Red Cobblestone

    Are all these really necessary? red cobblestones that invade our streets? How much do they cost us? Is now the best time to spend public money on paving stones? Is this how we solve the 5 million unemployed? In some places they are changing the cobblestones of one color for those of another. On the…

  • Good ideas

    Steven Berlin Johnson offers us an animated video based on his book Where the good ideas come from. The video solves in four minutes the basic doubts about how innovations arise, what is the spark of them… making it clear that innovation is a process that in many cases takes time. Photo: Chuck Coker under…

  • Electoral state of emergency

    Yesterday there was the first semifinal of the balonbildu electoral tournament between the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the State Attorney’s Office against the Supreme and Constitutional Courts. Those of the Supreme won by a landslide although, surprisingly, the Prosecutor’s Office and the State Attorney’s Office seemed to be more happy than the winners of the…

  • The city as a work (and object) of art

    Urban concentrations (their great expansion) are usually attractive for artists, especially when a large majority of them live there. Thinkers and intellectuals relapse into debating, explaining and even converting the urban fact into an artistic object. And without this being a brand new practice, its revival and reintroduction as an exhibition element, in museums, literary…

  • Color cards. The biodiversity of the entrepreneur’s ecosystem

    On a visit to the Technopolis in Helsinki its managers explained to me how they organized one of the most successful entrepreneurial events there. Although free entry was allowed, upon entering the room, the organizers asked all attendees a question: who are you? Based on their response, they were assigned a colored card to place…