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Naider

  • New version available: capitalism 2.0

    When you step back and look at a problem from a distance, it’s easier to focus on it and understand the reasons and catalysts for the problem. If we want to achieve a more sustainable development, the economy must be seen in its own perspective as a sub-system of a larger and more important parent…

  • Protected areas: solution or problem?

    Protected areas are the main conservation tool used in most countries around the world. These areas contain some of the most incredible landscapes, the most biodiverse places, and provide us with vital services for our survival and well-being. The origin of protected areas – whose first opening was the Yellowstone National Park in the USA…

  • Euskadi, European benchmark for innovation in manufacturing

    Aernnova, ITP Aero, and Mondragon, together with the groups of technology centers IK4 and Tecnalia, lead the constitution of the southwest European node of the manufacturing innovation network EIT Manufacturing. The network, financed by the European Commission with 80 million euros per year and in which 50 entities from 17 countries collaborate, has the mission…

  • Sustainability Ranking of Province Capitals

    The Sustainability Observatory (OS) and AIS Group evaluated the 52 provincial capitals in the ranking of Most Sustainable Cities of 2018. To do so, they used 59 indicators, consistent with the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda, divided into 26 themes and four large blocks: economic , social, environmental and transparency and cooperation.

  • 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…