We don't have to say that we are going to live worse in order to stop climate change, but that we are going to stop climate change in order to live bette
Andreu Escrivá author of the book "¿Y ahora yo qué hago? Como evitar la culpa climática y pasar a la acción" commented that in reality, the title should read "And what do we do now?" because climate change is a collective problem and the solutions have to be collective. We cannot be in individualistic approaches where "I have my little ecological plot. This is what suits capitalism and the companies that can sell us packs of climate solutions for our lives. We will buy them and think we are good green citizens instead of betting on the structural changes we need. The most important thing you can do is to join other people.”
El género impuesto por la normatividad es un aprendizaje y disciplina de las diferencias
Jon San Vicente, director de “Estudios LGBTIAQ+” hace referencia al concepto de biopolítica como una forma de ejercer el poder sobre las personas y las poblaciones en general, que construye a los seres humanos y sus subjetividades.
Architecture can determine how we live and how we relate to each other, helping us to be more resilient in systemic crises
"Buildings are capable of constructing interpersonal relationships if their design seeks to do this, as they are partly responsible for the excessive individualization that has emerged in recent years. This individualization is leading to a worrying increase of social problems such as loneliness, one of the biggest pandemics of the 21st century, according to the WHO".
The challenge is to invest quickly and well in projects that truly have transformative mobility potential
We are in an unprecedented moment of transformation in the transport and mobility sector. "We will need to make an additional effort to adapt, do things differently, and probably set untraditional solutions," said María José Rallo at the UPV / EHU Summer Courses.
UPV/EHU Summer Courses emerge stronger from the pandemic
The 40th edition of the UPV/EHU Summer Courses is back up to the number of students pre-pandemic and has opened up to a more international audience.
Sea and Climate Change
Fermin Alvarez Agoues, 30 years old, from Zarautz, graduate in Geology from the University of the Basque Country, Master in Marine Environment and Resources (MER). Currently a PhD candidate at Trinity College Dublin, studying sea level changes in the Atlantic Ocean.
The 40th anniversary of the Summer Courses
Presentation of the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the UPV/EHU Summer Courses and of the book “Sinboloen eta Hitzen artean/Entre Símbolos y Palabras” ["Between Symbols and Words"]
Recalling the challenges of the past in addressing decarbonization
Nowadays There are fifty-one billion tons of greenhouse gases in the world and by 2050 the goal is to reach zero net carbon emissions.
Social turning points: windows of opportunity to save the planet
Caty Arévalo, a journalist specialising in environmental news, co-founder of EFEverde and winner of the BBVA foundation award for conservation of biodiversity in 2017, used the event "Windows of Opportunity to Save the Planet" to outline the concept of social turning points: changes with a big multiplier effect able to bring about large-scale transformations and make a major contribution to solving environmental problems.
The green areas are not a lawn full of flowers
Rufino Hernández, director of the European Congress on Energy Efficiency and Sustainability EESAP12-CICAS, prefers to speak of waves in the plural instead of focusing on the challenges posed by the wave of rehabilitation in which we are currently. With the money that will come from the European Next Generation, many things will be done, but then there will be an impasse and a new wave will come, because "each generation is different and wants different things." Now we set the goal of climate neutrality for cities for 2050 but as the years go by, new goals will be set, even before that date.
