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What criteria must a city meet to be sustainable?
Today is World Cities Day without us being entirely clear about what a sustainable city should be like. Social inequalities skyrocket from one neighborhood to another. Just by crossing the street, your neighbor’s hope can be 10 years less than yours or vice versa. Access to work or the quality of it also presents great…
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Lisbon, European Green Capital 2020
Lisbon will be the next European green capital, taking over from Oslo the capital of Portugal will be the one who makes visible during the next year which are the policies implemented and the changes generated in environmental matter. The award that Vitoria-Gasteiz held in 2012, today recognizes the capital lusa for various advances in…
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Increase in household spending on Energy
In the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, energy has gained a lot of weight in household spending in the last decade. On the one hand, the price of energy has increased notably, and on the other, since 2008 family spending on other items has decreased since 2008. This and other information on energy consumption…
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Recycling yes, but it’s not enough
Some images speak for themselves. Every day the equivalent of a stack of plastic bottles half the size of the Eiffel Tower is sold around the world: drinks, yoghurts, cutlery, sauces, fruit trays, shampoo bottles… . Plastic does not leave everyday parcels untouched, and the problem is that even recycling does not seem like a…
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Cooperative and participative supermarkets
In 2016, he opened the cooperative and participatory supermarket La Louve in the 18th arrondissement of Paris (“La Loba”), which contrasts with the prevailing consumption model. In it, those who consume are cooperative members and workers: they must donate 3 hours of their time every four weeks in sales, replacement, or maintenance work. In this…
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Concession of aid for the preparation of landscape action plans
The Department of the Environment, Territorial Planning and Housing of the Basque Government has published the resolution granting subsidies to the Town Halls of the C.A. of the Basque Country, as well as the Councils of the Alava municipalities, for the elaboration of Landscape Action Plans. Aid of up to €30,000 euros per plan (without…
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Bilbao enters the ranking of the smartest cities
Bilbao is among the 10 smartest cities worldwide, according to Smart City Index (SCI) presented by the Smart Cities Observatory of the IMD World Competitiveness Center. The Index evaluates 102 global cities by conducting a perception survey among the citizens themselves in five key areas: health and safety, mobility, cultural activities, employment and educational opportunities,…
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Let’s rethink industrial estates to reduce their impacts
Urbanism, like any other subject, evolves by adapting criteria and points of view from other areas, incorporating innovative elements, scientific approaches, and popular participation as a way of understanding the mechanisms of communities. urban theory has needed to evolve to incorporate extralocal and global processes to the understanding of the urban phenomenon. Industrial estates bathe…
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Donostia urban lur: agriculture in the city,
Fomento San Sebastián/Donostia Sustapena promotes the project Donostia Urban Lur where the following is offered to those who want to undertake a business project based on the production of agricultural products: suitable land and infrastructure for cultivation, tools to work them, technical training itinerary in agriculture and business for the execution of the business project…
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slow fashion
Fast fashion brands, with their constant rotation of collections and their affordable prices, have accustomed us to brand new clothes every so often, but the ecological cost is high. Considering the production process alone, the textile industry emits 1.2 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere – more than aviation and shipping combined -. Added…