Source: Accelerating technological change (GMT 4) — European Environment Agency The pace of technological change, particularly in the fields of information, communication, nano- and bio-technologies, is unprecedented. This provides opportunities to reduce humanity’s impact on the environment and reliance on non-renewable natural Read More …
Yesterday, August 13, was the day in which the yearly humanity´s demand of natural resources, as of January 1, exceeds what the Earth can regenerate within the whole year (biocapacity). I.e., yesterday was the 2015´s Earth Overshoot Day. The Earth Overshoot Day -an initiative by Global Footprint Network– Read More …
Last Thursday 18 May was released in the City Vatican the encyclical letter Laudato si´ on the care of our common home, by the pope Francis. This pope´s statement may cause you a sort of confusion, surprise, leave you speechless. In Read More …
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication” This statement, attributed without proved evidences to Leonardo Da Vinci [1], explains very accurately the problably most important and desired feature of any thing we make, be it an artwork, a good work, an exquisite food…. (write Read More …
Two years ago, on 12 February, Obama delivered the 2013 State Of The Union address. From the place where are given the most influencing statements for the Earth´s future, Obama spoke about household consumption, renewable energy, waste materials, climate change, Read More …
We are witnessing these days an event that is becoming a classic in Spain every Winter: the extraordinary concentration of pollutants in the atmosphere of the largest urban areas. The pollutant that is triggering the alarms and exceeding the legal Read More …
This week was held in Barcelona (18-20 November) the Smart City Expo congress, a world leading congress on smart solutions […] for cities, companies and experts [1] In practice, due to the number and features of the solutions shown in the congress, a more Read More …
In November 1972, National Geographic released its official magazine nº 142/5. This was the magazine´s cover: One of the edition´s articles was entitled “The search for tomorrow´s power” and is about the progresses happening, at that time, in the field of Read More …
Last friday, july 11, the MIT´s Climate CoLab (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) broadcast a web seminar on the implementation of a carbon pricing in the United States. It was a streaming seminar, throughout its web (that is, a webinar, term from gathering “seminar” Read More …
Today, I extended the Netatmo weather station installed in my town (Ontinar), with the rain gauge I purchased days ago. It is all about a 13 centimetres in diameter and 11 centimetres high module. As the rest of station´s additional modules, Read More …
Dan Brown´s works do not leave indifferent anybody. The enigmatic ambiguity with witch reality and fiction combine in his stories, are source of both admiration and criticism of the author´s career. His last novel is Inferno. Should you have the Read More …
Almost at the end (1h 10´ 30”) of the Spanish public television documentary “Comprar, tirar, comprar” (“buy, dump, buy”) is explained a new concept based on the rethinking of products engineering and production. This model is named “cradle to cradle” and was Read More …
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