A Creative Scientific Agency
You’re making this island disappear Kiribati poet Teweiariki Tearo describes the atolls of his homeland as “garlands of the gods”. That is how they look from the air, with a smoke ring of clouds above lush green slivers of land. Actually, it´s not you. It´s global warming.
Capitulo II: Y entonces… ¿ahora qué hacemos? Maurits Verbiest – Ahead lies a golden future… Ya te hemos contado de qué va esto de los nuevos contadores inteligentes y el nuevo recibo de la luz, que arrancó el pasado 1 de octubre. ¿Con esto podemos ahorrar? Desengáñate, no va a haber grandes ahorros. Pero algo […]
Capitulo I: ¿un smart qué? Steve Hanna –Meter on yellow Sin que nos hayamos enterado, poco a poco se han ido introduciendo silenciosamente en nuestras vidas. Nos están midiendo. ¿Qué son? ¿dónde están? Se les llama “contadores inteligentes” -del inglés, smart meters-. Son medidores digitales que recopilan información sobre el uso de la energía. La […]
You are on this planet, figuring out some reason for you being here Device 6 by simogo I believe that stories are the fundamental food for the soul. We can´t live without stories. In one form or another, everybody is living on them from the age of two until their death. People do not necessarily […]
Hemos llegado a convertirnos en inViable porque en los últimos años hemos hecho cosas como esta web, de la que hoy presentamos una nueva versión, “lalavadora”. Somos gente curiosa, rodeada de amigos curiosos que nos animaban a responder a nuestras preguntas. En esta ocasión las preguntas eran ¿cuánto influye la forma en que se usa […]
Esta mesa mantiene fresca tu habitación sin gastar nada de energía. Seguimos leyendo: “Gracias a los materiales del interior del mueble, aquellos países donde un aparato de aire acondicionado es un lujo podrán refrigerar sus hogares sin necesidad de energía” Dos matizaciones: -Esta mesa probablemente resulte una apuesta interesante de eficiencia energética si efectivamente reduce […]
SETAC meetings are the unmissable dates for LCA community. The European Annual Meeting of this year was held in Barcelona between the 3rd and the 7th of May, under the headline of “Environmental protection in a multi-stressed world: challenges for science, industry and regulators”. We wanted to contribute to the on-going discussions and we participated […]
Visualizing the invisible infrastructures It was the end of summer of 2012 when a crew of engineers and artists started a road trip to explore several sites linked to radioactivity in the area of Madrid and in other places in Spain. Fully loaded with free hardware equipment, designed to measure and visualize the natural radioactivity […]
Xoan García Huguet is a great photographer. And as most of the great ones, he has a lot of patience. When he decided to repair an old house in Asunción (Paraguay), he began to collect waste from other construction works. The result, which you can see in the above image, was la ilona. Was it […]
What is O-LCA about? Life Cycle Assessment is now frequently applied to products, but has not yet been established as common practice in organizations. Several initiatives in the last few years have promoted the use of LCA within an organizational scope, mainly in the assessment of individual environmental impacts such as GHG emissions and water. […]