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‘Nature always adopts the simplest modes which will accomplish the goal’ —Henry David Thoreau, American philosopher, 1817–1862

Governing (dominating) the climate

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Governing (dominating) the climate

Sciences, Environment, ECOLOGY

Whilst carbon dioxide levels are the highest they have been in human history, trust in institutional regimes to solve this global issue is at the lowest. Recent ...

Of lions and men

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Of lions and men

Sciences, Environment, ecology

Not long ago, I read shocked that a person died devoured by a lion in front of their family, who watched the show terrified in the same car that the person had abandoned for ...

How are you?

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How are you?

Sciences, Environment, ecology

It is quite common to find in ethnographic readings on indigenous peoples how they establish links close with their environment or territory. In issue 34 of ...

We eat the plastic we throw away

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We eat the plastic we throw away

Sciences, Environment, ecology

The origins of the plastic back to the late nineteenth century, but it was not until 1909 that bakelite, the first completely synthetic plastic invented of the history. They ...

God, the Universe and everything else

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God, the Universe and everything else

Sciences, Environment, physics

Three major of the scientific outreach, each an expert in a different field, met for the first and unique time in the same television studio in 1988. Stephen Hawking, Carl ...

Life after people

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Life after people

Sciences, Environment, ecology

This is not the story about how humans we could disappear, but rather what would happen on Earth after our demise. It does not deal how we extinguish, simply we are not ...

Cities are thought and done

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Cities are thought and done

Arts, Environment, architecture

'Today's cities consume 75% of global energy and thus contribute to 75% of CO2 emissions. To this we must add that within 40 years three quarters of the world population will ...

The smart island

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The smart island

Sciences, Environment, ecology

El Hierro, the island farthest from the Iberian Peninsula and the smallest of the Canary Islands, is a quiet place. Only the wind disturbs some peace that reigns in this ...

WHAT A MEET: The future of the city

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WHAT A MEET: The future of the city

Arts, Environment, WHAT A MEET, architecture

In 1990, only one in ten people inhabit urban space. In 1950, they were nearly three out ten, and in the beginning of the current century, people living in cities are more ...

A farm for the future

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A farm for the future

Sciences, Environment, ecology

A true story told in the first person by the protagonist, Rebecca Hosking, who thinks to return to his native Devon to take on the old family farm. From his professional ...

Home, sweet home

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Home, sweet home

Sciences, Environment, ecology

In just a few decades, man has disrupted the balance of thousands of years of the Earth's evolution of and has jeopardized his future. The risk is enormous and Humanity must ...

Humans and other animals

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Humans and other animals

Sciences, Environment, ecology

Are we human beings very different from other animals? This video reflects on the human condition and how we see ourselves in relation to gorillas, whales, leopards or ...

Another life is possible

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Another life is possible

Sciences, Environment, ecology

Transition is a socio-environmental movement, whose main interest is the application of a responsible, supportive and sustainable lifestyle, its dissemination and development ...

Will we live forever on Earth?

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Will we live forever on Earth?

Sciences, Environment, physics

Many scientists, including British physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking and the late American astronomer and astrophysicist Carl Sagan, have long been warning that it ...

WHAT ABOUT: The future by Benedetta Tagliabue

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WHAT ABOUT: The future by Benedetta Tagliabue

Arts, Environment, WHAT ABOUT: The future, architecture

'What I would really like for the future is a change in Humanity's consciousness'. She studied Architecture at the Istituto Universtario de Architettura di Venezia (IUAV), ...

Architecture, soil and Earth

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Architecture, soil and Earth

Arts, Environment, architecture

It's nothing new: some of the oldest buildings in the Earth are built with soil. It is estimated that half of the world population lives in houses made with this ...

Green buildings

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Green buildings

Sciences, Environment, ecology

What do we mean by 'green' or 'sustainable' building? Perhaps, the proper term is bioconstruction, or at least is what Spanish architects used to refer to a structure of any ...

WHAT ABOUT: The future by Marcel Coderch

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WHAT ABOUT: The future by Marcel Coderch

Sciences, Environment, WHAT ABOUT: The future, ecology

'The future will be sustainable or it won’t be'. Energy sustainability and economic growth expert, Marcel Coderch is a Telecommunications Engineer from the Polytechnic ...

The most outstanding fact across the Universe

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The most outstanding fact across the Universe

Sciences, Environment, physics

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist and science writer. Today is also the director of the Hayden Planetarium in the Rose Center for Earth and Space and a ...

The pale blue dot

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The pale blue dot

Sciences, Environment, physics

Carl Sagan was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, writer and scientist. He became a popular figure for his science books and, above all, for the television ...

WHAT ABOUT: The future by Juli Capella

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WHAT ABOUT: The future by Juli Capella

Arts, Environment, WHAT ABOUT: The future, architecture

'I think it's worth worrying about the future, because if not, others do and it’s worse'. Juli Capella has focused his career on the paths of design, architecture and ...

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