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On the brink of the point of no return
If emissions from human activity continue unremitting, the global warming can run amok. An international team of researchers has warned that an increase of 1ºC in the Earth’s average temperature could trigger the release of an additional 55 billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere. In a report published in the journal Nature, the research…
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The necessary commitment to the knowledge economy
The autonomous communities that have most intensely developed the knowledge economy – that is, the economy based on information, communications, and technological innovation – have better resisted the crisis in terms of income, productivity and employment, according to the report The competitiveness of Spanish regions in the face of the knowledge economy, by the Ivie
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The largest environmental cause of premature death in Europe
Air pollution is the biggest cause number of premature deaths in Europe, with 467,000 deaths caused in 2013. In the EU28, deaths due to breathing fine particles were 436,000, 23,900 of which occurred in the State. Air quality has improved in Europe thanks to reduced emissions, but not enough to prevent unacceptable damage to human…
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Local microfactories to revalue electronic waste
We constantly change smartphones. On average, each person launches a mobile every 11 months. And the phones and tablets we throw away are a mine of multiple valuable materials. Given the enormous volume of electronic waste that we generate, the scientist Veena Sahajwalla, an expert in the Science of the University of New South Wales…
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Video: What are superblocks?
Cities are cities because they have public space. The superblocks are a solution to free up public space occupied by cars, and restore uses and functions of the city that motorization does not allow.
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Appointment with the maker movement in Bilbao
The old Artiach biscuit factory in Zorrotzaurre is hosting this weekend (November 18-20) the 4th edition of the Maker Faire Bilbao, appointment with the creators and innovators of the maker community. The maker movement, whose banner is the DIY or Do-It-Yourself philosophy, recommends that we can all empower ourselves and take the step to create…
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Schlierberg: The quintessential green neighborhood
The neighborhood of Schlierberg in the German city of Freiburg (or Friburgo in Spanish) is an example of sustainability for the world: it is completely self-sufficient, in fact it generates four times more energy than it consumes. The neighborhood consists of 59 wooden houses, each equipped with photovoltaic solar panels that cover their large roofs,…
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International award for Sustainable Rehabilitation in Vitoria-Gasteiz
The rehabilitation of a residential building in Vitoria-Gasteiz, a characteristic block of the development movement of the 60s, has received the Grand Prize for Sustainable Rehabilitation of the Green Building & City Solutions Awards 2016, which is delivered by the international network < a href="http://www.construction21.org/static/who-we-are.html">Construction21. The award-winning project, by the architects Israel Martínez Villa and…
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Cable cars reach urban public transport
Cable cars have taken center stage in Latin America as a means of mass urban transportation, notably in Medellín, Colombia, where Metrocable serves to integrate disadvantaged neighborhoods with difficult access located at the top of the hillside. Similarly, the Mexican capital has just inaugurated Mexicable, a system of gondolas that connects the citizens of the…
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This is our footprint in the arctic melt
A new study conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and published by Science has quantified for the first time the direct contribution of every person on the planet to the melting of the Arctic: for every ton of CO2 they emit each of us, 3 m2 of arctic ice disappear. The decrease in…