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WeChat, the app for everything
WeChat is often presented as the Chinese WhatsApp, but in reality it is much more than that. In addition to instant messaging, WeChat centralizes the functions of many other apps, something that we in the West are still unaware of. The Chinese spend more than a third of their time online on this platform that…
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Video: From motorway to cycle path
In Auckland (New Zealand), a motorway exit in the center of the city, which had been in disuse for ten years due to the construction of a new road, has been transformed into a cycle path.
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Today we have exhausted the annual budget of nature
Today, August 8th, is Overshoot Day of the year 2016, the date on which humanity has consumed the equivalent to all the resources that the Earth can renew in a period of 12 months. This is stated in a report by the NGO Global Footprint Network: the remaining five months of this year, we will…
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The growing impact of the sharing economy
The sharing economy, with BlaBlaCar, Uber, or AirBnb as its leading exponents, will have a global combined turnover of around 300,000 million euros in 2025, according to a report by the OBS Business School based on data from the consulting firm PwC echoed by The Economist. The report, which puts the number of platforms in…
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Video: Why is scientific culture important?
We live in an extraordinarily technical environment, however, as a society, we suffer from a great ignorance of “scientific”. This video from the Chair of Scientific Culture of the UPV/EHU advocates for a society with a better understanding of its environment and better-formed criteria.
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The danger of green gentrification
The creation of parks, green areas and ecological corridors in neighborhoods and cities can lead to the exclusion of the most vulnerable social groups, if “verification” is not accompanied by adequate housing policies. This is clear from a study by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona led by…
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Video: 10 exemplary practices of urban transport
The social cohesion of the city through escalators and cable cars in Medellín, the pedestrianization of one of the most famous public spaces in the world in New York, or the largest public bicycle system that exists in Hangzhou. The Streetfilms organization collects 10 of the best examples of sustainable public transport practices in large…
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A computer tool for saving energy at home
The Basque technology center IK4-Ikerlan has developed a computer program called Home Energy Analyzer, which makes electricity consumption at home more efficient. The program, aimed at the customers of retailers in the area of operation of Iberdrola Distribución, is available as a free extension of the Google Chrome browser. The tool analyzes the energy consumption…
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European Awards for Urban Public Space
The European Awards for Urban Public Space are a biannual recognition, created by the Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB) in the year 2000, in order to recognize and promote the public nature of urban spaces as well as their capacity of social cohesion. Unlike other contests, it aims to recognize urban surgery interventions,…
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Sustraiak Habitat Design, regenerating habitats and ecosystems
Sustraiak Habitat Design is a Basque cooperative whose mission is to design, coordinate and implement multidisciplinary services on the territory and facilitate processes of comprehensive regeneration of habitats and ecosystems. Sustraiak Habitat Design works around four areas: The Design and Implementation of Habitat Regeneration Projects; the Implementation of Environmental Management Solutions; the Accompaniment of Community…