Tag: Barcelona - Page 2
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Bike Sharing: Saves Lives, Cuts Carbon Emissions
It's no longer big news when a European city gets a new bike share program, unless they do it bigger, better, or with a technical innovation that hasn't been seen before. It is newsworthy,
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The Plant Journal: A New Magazine Exploring Creative People's Relationships With Plants (Interview)
A story on New Yorker's stubbornness to grow in the least traditional spaces, a special report on how to take care of a Staghorn Fern, and a tale of a trip to a mysterious nursery in Buenos Aires are some of the
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The 2011 Spanish Revolution; How Protesters Organise Themselves to Be Green (Photos)
The Indignados (or "Outraged") have been camping in over 60 Spanish cities for almost 10 days now. What started on the 15th of May (hence the tag #15-M) via social networks has become some of the biggest and most peaceful
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Plug In! First Electric Motorcycle Charging Stations in Barcelona
The other day, coming back from the beach, I saw some strange looking parking icons painted on the street; motorbikes with a plug! And indeed it seems to be happening now, Barcelona has launched its first electric
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Barcelona Gives Away 'Olipots' To Promote Kitchen Oil Recycling
The mediterranean cuisine is known to be one of the healthiest, and yet, Spaniards like their fried tapas or churros every now and then. In 2010 the recycling centers, called 'Green Points', collected 195.136 liters of used
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European Cities Crack Down On Free Parking to Reduce Car Use, Make Room for Biking, Walking
What needs to be done to get more people out of their cars? Offer incentives for taking public transportation? Make driving more expensive? It's a
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We Need More Trees: Greeting Cards by Petz Scholtus Celebrate 2011 Year of the Forests (Interview)
We love this join-the-dots co-creative design for a New Year's greeting card by our very own TreeHugger Barcelona correspondent Petz Scholtus. When not reporting for these very pages Petz is a product designer with a
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Cute Animal Bulletin Boards Deliver a Serious Reminder About Mass Extinction
Nobody likes being beaten about the head with the eco-stick. As many of us have experienced, railing against friends and family about the state of the planet rarely produces favourable results, or in fact any result at all. That's why TreeHugger is a
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Where the Wild Things Are..in London and Barcelona (Slideshow)
Let this vixen lead you into a tale of two cities: London and Barcelona. Photographer Laurent Geslin got his start taking photos of foxes, but as Wild Wonders of Europe sends him on mission to London he finds
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Where the Wild Things Are...in London and Barcelona
Laurent Geslin was surprised to learn his mission to photograph European wildlife would take him to the urban heart of London and Barcelona to shoot foxes and falcons. He was even more surprised when, in spite of the fact that he got his start snapping
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C.K. Prahalad, Kraft Going Green(ish) and The COP15 Lead Up in Barcelona
A weekly wrap up of green and socially minded business news from the gang at TriplePundit.com.
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Road to Copenhagen: Is a 'politically-binding' agreement worthless or a path to progress?
From all I can gather, the actual on-paper negotiations are moving this week, progressing in some way towards some kind of agreement. (We'll get to what kind of agreement soon.) But we wouldn't have much way of knowing,
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Top 5 posts from Barcelona Climate Talks This Week
All eyes are on the city of Barcelona this week, as the last round of climate talks take place before the campaign roadshow moves onto to its final destination in Copenhagen in December. So what advances have the international delegates made this week?
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Barcelona Forever Goes Copenhagen, a Recycling Project
After Barcelona Forever in
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Singer Kimya Dawson at Primavera Sound Festival: "Our choices are powerfull"
Although we missed the actions Barcelona's Summercase Festival took last year to green their music events (reusable cups, recycling schemes, LED lighting, etc.), two singers really got their message across at this
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Ecocity, Environmental Solutions for Cities and Industry
This week the seventh edition of Ecocity & Industry, a fair all around the environmental future of industry and cities, is held in Barcelona, Spain. It is all about waste management and recycling, air quality monitoring, renewable energies and urban
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Watch the Falcons Living in Sagrada Familia Cathedral via Web Cam
One of the tours of architect Gaudi’s famous cathedral La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona has now become the home of a family of falcons. Peregrine Falcons had disappeared from the city in the 70ies, but reappeared in 2005 by moving into the unfinished
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Construmat 2009: Casa Barcelona Housing Project Fits Everyone
Last week, Construmat, the leading construction fair held in Barcelona, Spain, every two years, attracted some 153,000 visitors. Amongst the most interesting works exhibited was the Casa Barcelona,an innovative, social and sustainable housing
