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  • Video: Red-handed architecture

    “The streets are not only lines to move, they are also the stage of public life, the essence of the city.” Latvian architect Evelina Ozola talks about how to involve society in the design and prototyping of streets in a highly recommended TED talk.

  • The street of paradise: zero waste

    The French capital has inaugurated its first zero waste street. The selected road, 500 meters long and located in the tenth district of the city, will serve as a laboratory to gain an in-depth understanding of the problems associated with waste, and experiment with solutions to reduce waste, which can be extended to the entire…

  • The time to harness the weather is now

    The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns in a special report that we have fewer than 12 years to prevent the average global temperature from rising to catastrophic levels, according to the BBC. The report emphatically concludes that global warming will reach 1.5ºC between 2030 and 2052, if it progresses at the current…

  • Vienna: the online tool for designing outdoor sharing spaces

    The city of Vienna has made an online tool available to its inhabitants so that they can transform parking areas into small removable parks. The website, called CityMaking, provides a guide so that each user can find an available space on the map, plan the construction of the micropark , and submit the design proposal…

  • Video: Skepticism in the face of easy solutions

    The best-performing societies are skeptical when presented with easy solutions to complex problems, and don’t believe that, as individuals, they have a good chance of reaching the very pinnacle of success. We don’t know if that’s exactly pessimism, but the ideas in The School of Life are sobering.

  • Portugal seeks to decarbonise transport by 2050

    The Portuguese government presented a plan, on the eve of the COP24, to decarbonise its economy by 2050, which includes a way to decarbonize 98.5% of your transportation industry. The plan presented focuses on the reduction of unnecessary trips, the promotion of public transport, shared transport and mobility models, and the integration of renewable energies,…

  • Conama 2018

    This week we have been in Madrid attending the 2018 National Environmental Congress (CONAMA), with the intention to nurture ourselves with new ideas, concepts and experiences that can help us to propose transformation projects towards more sustainable societies with an eye on 2030 since “in the next decade the great transformations will accelerate”. Over the…

  • The plant that turns CO2 into stone

    Sounds like science fiction, but Iceland is home to a pioneering power plant capable of capturing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and transforming them into solid mineral. In this way, CO2 is stored permanently and is not released into the air. As reported by Smithsonian, it is a process that has been experienced for decades,…

  • Video: Sea of ​​plastics

    If we don’t reverse it, by 2050 there will be more mass of plastic than fish in the sea, something that our bodies notice.

  • The snows of the Pyrenees, at risk

    The central Pyrenees will lose 50% of its snow in 2050, and up to 80% before the end of the century, according to the projections of the report “Climate Change in the Pyrenees” coordinated by the Pyrenean Observatory for Climate Change, which includes La Vanguardia. Since 1959, temperatures in the mountains have risen 30% more…