Next 11 and 12 november will take place in Bilbao the closing event of Healthy Workplaces Campaign 2012-13 “Working Together for Risk Prevention”. I will attend to it, as a part and also a crowning moment of the media partnership Read More …
Earth Overshoot Day: The yearly over-explotation of resources has its own anniversary
SInce several decades ago, there is an indicator measuring the utilization of natural resources. This indicator is a specific calendar date: the day on which human´s resources consumption for the years exceeds Earth´s capacity to regenerate those resources that year. Read More …
Finland, the best place to study… and work
It is enough to do a search in the Internet with the term “Finland education system” to get lots of links (here a random example) highlighting the success of the Finnish system of education, with 98% of free public colleges Read More …
An example of citizen’s participation in Germany towards a public management of energy
There is a country in Europe where a relevant social movement is arising in search of a responsible and sustainable energy system. This is Germany. It is a bipolar country in this sense: while some lands along its territory obtain Read More …
Effects of CO2 in humans
This chart shows the evolution of CO2 concentration in parts per million (ppm) in the atmosphere in the latest 30 years. (click on the image to enlarge). Last month of may 2013, the 400 ppm CO2 threshold, which was considered Read More …
Safety culture at school
This is Napo. He is a cartoon character created by EU-OSHA, among other agencies. Napo loves his work, even when he sometimes finds not very well done things at workplace and must invent solutions to solve them. For sure, Napo got a Read More …
English version of the blog
This is the first entry in the English version of my blog, Aragon Valley. Aragon Valley is an already existing personal site since january 2012. Here I try to bring closer to a wide audience information on sustainability, social responsibility, Read More …
The hidden meaning of Apple
Several versions exist explaining the origins of Apple´s name and logotype. The official version could be the one of the Steve Job´s biography by Walter Isaacson (2011): 1976. It was the day before the mandatory registration of the company. Jobs came back from Read More …
#Agriculture and #climatechange — EEA
Origen: Agriculture and climate change — EEA Agriculture both contributes to climate change and is affected by climate change. The EU needs to reduce its greenhouse-gas emissions from agriculture and adapt its food-production system to cope with climate change. But climate Read More …
Sales from U.S. Organic Farms Up 72 Percent, USDA Reports
Source: Sales from U.S. Organic Farms Up 72 Percent, USDA Reports WASHINGTON, Sep 17, 2015 –Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture´s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) released the results of the 2014 Organic Survey, which show that 14,093 certified and exempt Read More …
Soil capability and status — European Environment Agency (SOER 2015)
Origen: Soil — EEA´s SOER2015 The ability of soil to deliver ecosystem services — in terms of food production, as biodiversity pools and as a regulator of gasses, water and nutrients — is under increasing pressure. Observed rates of soil sealing, erosion, Read More …
Organic Food | European Parliamentary Research Service
Written by Giulio Sabbati and Ivana Katsarova Organic production is an overall system of farm management and food production that aims at sustainable agriculture, high-quality products and the use of processes that do not harm the environment, human, plant or Read More …
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