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Video: Vertical crops to supply the city
The largest indoor vertical garden, built in a 6,400-square-meter warehouse in New Jersey, aims to introduce the world to a model that supplies the growing urban population without the use of pesticides and with 95% less water consumption.
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Bind 4.0: Euskadi for the challenge of attracting the best industrial startups
The Basque Country is getting wet with a promising initiative to reinforce its industrial ecosystem with the development of advanced technologies. The Basque Government, in collaboration with twelve of the main companies and multinationals with a presence in the Basque Country, launched yesterday, July 6, the startup acceleration program Bind 4.0, with which it seeks…
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South Korea: A 32km cycle path covered with solar panels
The highway between the Korean cities of Daejeon and Sejong is characterized by having a 22 km long two-way track, exclusively for cyclists, covered with solar panels to generate clean electricity. The idea of covering a track with solar panels also has the advantage of protecting cyclists from excessive sun or rain and snow, but…
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The light pollution atlas
Light pollution has negative effects on our health and the natural habitat, but despite this, not enough efforts have been made to measure the problem on a global scale. To answer this, a study published by the journal ScienceAdvances has led to a comprehensive atlas of brightness artificial night, measuring and comparing the intensity of…
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The UN reaffirms Internet access as a human right
The UN Human Rights Council voted in favor, this past July 1, of a resolution condemning censorship measures and blocking access to information on the Internet, and reaffirms freedom of expression online as a basic human right. The resolution expands on two previous decisions of the Human Rights Council in the same vein that declared…
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The 606: The linear urban park won by Chicago
New York’s High Lane, an elevated rail line in disused, converted into a green corridor that meanders through Manhattan, is a striking success story of recovery of public space that is being contemplated by other cities around the world. In the same country, Chicago has reclaimed a similar abandoned train line to create a linear…
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Video: A camera among garbage
Garbage and rubbish that we should never have left in nearby natural areas come to life in this Polish animated short.
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The house that generates more energy than it consumes
A panel of experts from the Welsh School of Architecture at the University of Cardiff, designed and built a prototype detached house that is capable of producing more power for the electricity grid than it needs to consume, with manufacturing costs similar to those of a comparable home. Part of efforts to achieve near-zero carbon…
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Vitoria-Gasteiz: Smart regeneration for a neighborhood of developmentalism
Vitoria-Gasteiz began last February the path to regenerate the Coronación neighborhood, a neighborhood born from the relentless model of industrial development of 50 years ago that has been dragging a loss of attractiveness and population despite being next to the historic center of the city. The project, which has a grant of almost 11 million…
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Video: The changing city
The filmmaker Keith Loutit has filmed the city of Singapore for 3 years to show that the landscapes we pass through, which seem to us anchored in time, are constantly changing.