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  • Sustainable urban planning arrives in the basque country

    On January 23, the Basque Government invited us to present the New Urban Agenda for the Basque Country (BULTZATU2050). This is the transposition to the Basque reality of the New Urban Agenda (NAU) approved in 2016 in Quito (Ecuador) during the third United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III). The Goal…

  • Video: Kamikatsu, the zero waste town

    The small Japanese rural town of Kamikatsu, population 1,700, can be considered a world leader in waste disposal, with up to 34 recycling categories. All organic waste is handled within each home and is 100% reused, and the rest of the waste is taken by each person to the local collection center, there are no…

  • Keys of the social innovation model of the ulia neighborhood, donostia

    At the foothills of Mount Ulia in Donostia-San Sebastián, it is located in the heart of the emblematic Ategorrieta street (which connects the city with Pasaia and where where Arzak’s restaurant is located) a space self-managed by the community in which numerous activities for the exchange of knowledge and healthy lifestyles are carried out. Until…

  • Ranking of supermarkets according to their plastic footprint

    Greenpeace Spain has prepared a weighted ranking of ten supermarkets based on their commitments and practices to curb the use of single-use plastic. None of the supermarkets achieves a good grade in the ranking, and Greenpeace concludes that more ambitious measures are needed to overcome the throwaway culture. Many of the supermarkets reduce the thickness…

  • Companies and sustainability

    In 2015, more than 150 heads of state and government met at the historic Sustainable Development Summit in New York to create the Agenda 2030 of the United Nations. This Agenda contains 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of universal application that, from on January 1, 2016, lead countries’ efforts to achieve a more sustainable society…

  • Ekian, the largest solar park in the Cantabrian Sea

    On Monday, January 28, 2019, the Ekian project, which will be the largest photovoltaic energy park in the C.A. Euskadi and the Cantabrian coast. The facility will be located on 55 hectares in the Arasur logistics platform, in the Ribera Bajas town of Álava, and with its 67,000 355-watt panels it will generate 24MW of…

  • Video: The Fossil Flag

    Irish artist John Gerrard’s Western Flag installation sits virtually on the site of the first oil drilling in the US, the starting point of the modern oil industry. A symbol of our dependence on fossil fuels and its effects on the environment in which we live.

  • Climate change damages our trees

    In the coniferous woodlands of the Basque Country, the unstoppable advance of a brown band has been observed in the last year, reflecting the spread of fungi. The Basque Government indicates that one in three pines is affected. According to the latest Inventory of Forest Damage of the Ministry of Agriculture, global warming can exacerbate…

  • Finland: Training the population for the challenges of AI

    China in implementation, and the United States in research, are the world’s leading powers in Artificial Intelligence. Faced with these powers, the humblest Finland has set out to lead the race on the other side: to have the population better prepared to use, apply and live with technology, in a democracy of better informed people….

  • The floating park made of recycled plastic

    Human beings are filling the oceans with tons of plastic, which seriously affects marine ecosystems and our own health. In the Dutch city of Rotterdam, they have made this global problem visible by creating a 140 m2 floating park made from waste collected in the waters and shores of the port. The park also serves…