Tag: Spain - Page 11
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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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Cement Makers, Worldwide, Volunteer 25% Cutback in CO2 Emissions
In the back and forth of setting emission cut-back 'best practices,' it's a common response for industry, sensing stingent regulations are just around the corner, to 'volunteer'
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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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Spain Moves Toward First Bullfighting Ban
What do you think of when you picture Madrid? If you say Guernica, you're probably lying. It's bullfighting, of course--the storied sport is seemingly as inseparable from Spanish culture as it is from reading
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FRA: No "Cookie Cutter" High Speed Rail For The US
The Federal Railroad Administration is hoping Japan and other countries will help the United States to build a high-speed railway network. Karen Rae told Kyodo that FRA is reaching out to "a number
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Does the Environment Win When Economic Crisis Sends Immigrants Home?
Turkish cities have been the stage for culture clashes in recent years, as residents of rural areas moved to urban areas in large numbers, bringing what many urbanites see as
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34 kg of CO2 to make a book (Book Review)
At Construmat this year, the international building and construction trade fair held in Barcelona every two years, the Government of Catalonia presented their project "34 kg of CO2", along side Casa Barcelona. 34 kg is the exact quantity of CO2 that
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Two More 50 MW Concentrating Solar Power Plants in Spain: 100,000 Homes to be Supplied
Two weeks ago, Spain's Abengoa Solar announced that it has begun operating the world's largest solar power tower near Seville. Now the company will begin construction on two 50 MW concentrating solar power projects, using a
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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
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World's Largest Solar Tower Now Powers 10,000 Homes
The world's largest solar power tower just began operating outside Seville, Spain—and it marks a historic moment in the saga of renewable energy. The solar tower PS20, seen above right next to its smaller sister PS10, produced even
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Sustainable Construction — one of the main themes at the 30th Construmat in Spain
Construmat, one of the biggest construction trade fairs in Europe, held this week in Barcelona, Spain, has chosen sustainable construction as one of the main remedies to successfully tackle the crisis in the sector this year, as well as other challenges
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Bees Rejoice: One Potential Cause of Colony Collapse Disorder Identified
Colony collapse disorder has been attributed to all
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SOS 4.8 Music Festival in Spain Asks: And now what?
The Festival SOS 4.8 in Spain runs under the theme SOStenibilidad (sustainability) and celebrates 48h non-stop of Music, Contemporary Art and Reflection. Their first line-up last year was already pretty impressive, but nothing compared to this year:
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Mora Bike: Foldable in 8 Seconds, Local and Recyclable
Josep Mora, a Spanish designer well-known for specialising in everything that has wheels, has developed a new urban bike that can be folded in 8 seconds (see video link below). In a market full of folding bicycles, we asked ourselves if the Mora Bike
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Spanish Island of El Hierro's Carbon Neutral Energy Plans Soon to be Completed
A couple years ago TreeHugger highlighted the efforts of the island of El Hierro (one of the smaller of the Canary Islands, with a population of about 10,000) to make the switch over to generating all of its power from renewable energy
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Robot Fish Detects Contamination in the Sea in Northern Spain
According to Spanish newspaper El PaÃs last weekend, British scientists have developed a 1,5 meter long robot fish that will swim around the Spanish north coast to detect contamination in the water. If the robot fish, released in
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Threatened Iberian Lynx Mama Gives Birth to Three Kittens - Population Up 1.5 Percent!
If I didn't read TreeHugger faithfully each day, I wouldn't have known the endangered Iberian lynx was in such terrible trouble, and the recent hit-and-run death of a pregnant lynx had the power to drop the
