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The new cities of 2025, a new urban hierarchy
A new report has been published which analyzes the future of cities in the coming years and reviews trend data on urban economies around the world and how population dynamics and economic globalization will change – and are already doing – the hierarchies of cities. The study, Urban world: Mapping the economic power of cities,…
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Some more notes about Indonesia
In relation to previous post, I add some extra material related to deforestation in Indonesia. First, the report Illegal Logging in Indonesia. The environmental, social an economic cost. According to this study, some 108,110 square miles of forest disappeared between the years 1990 and 2005; while in 1960 82% of the Indonesian surface was covered…
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50 heroes in Fukushima?
Or would it be more correct to call them the precarious 50? Since the start of the “nuclear crisis” in Japan, it has been extraordinary for me to see how firefighters, the army, and mostly, plant workers risked their lives to control the serious situation at the plant and avoid, if possible, an even worse…
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Reforestation work continues in Indonesia
Karmele Llano, 2007 Naider Action and Commitment Award, directs for more than two years a project for the protection and conservation of the forest in Sumatra, Indonesia. During this time, from Ekopass and Naider we have followed and accompanied the work of Karmele, trying to support the proper development of the project from our sphere…
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Of dogs, cats and men
On March 25, the citizen initiative noalmaltratoanimal.orghas organized meetings in various cities of Spain to collect signatures that allow tougher penalties against animal abusers. This article seeks to support this initiative arguing that acts of animal abuse have to be harshly condemned and punished because they hide a potential danger not only towards mistreated animals,…
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nuclear moratorium
The serious events that occurred at the nuclear power plant >Fukushima have been a turning point in the international debate on nuclear energy. In a context characterized by the progressive increase in the price of oil and the worsening of climate change due to the combustion of fossil fuels, the nuclear industry hoped that public…
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The particle accelerators that could have been and were not
A brief memory and tribute to the noble and ancient art of throwing one element against another to see what the hell it contains or composes. In 2008, the very noble, loyal and undefeated town of Bilbao and its surroundings competed with third parties to house a large scientific infrastructure called a spallation neutron source….
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bricks and neurons
It is surely a very battered message but you have to see How our politicians like to inaugurate buildings, roads, sidewalks and other cement and brick gadgets at the end of the legislation and, of course, with an eye on the upcoming elections. Any self-respecting inauguration is also accompanied by the corresponding photos in which…
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A new world war begins: the liberation of Libya
The United Nations Security Council United States gave the green light to military intervention in Libya. After years of complicity with the oppressor and weeks of political makeup looking the other way, the international community has decided to act militarily against the Gaddafi regime. Is war the instrument for peace? The eternal question once again…
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The R&D bubble?
A few days ago I read onetribuna of “Jon Argeder” warning of the R&D bubble in the Basque Country. I really don’t understand the interest and motivation of launching this confusing and frivolous message. I say frivolous because I cannot understand how someone with a minimal knowledge of the world of research and technology, which…