Posts Tagged ‘Spain’

• Cuba shows that planet Earth can be saved with the help from environmentally sustainable socialism

  Photo credit: Deivis During a recent visit to Cuba, we stopped by an agricultural cooperative on the outskirts of Havana. Its farmers and cooperatives across the country are part of what’s widely acknowledged as the world’s largest organic farming experiment. …

• European parliament election results strengthens the Greens

  Photo credit: rockcohen Green political parties from across Europe made a successful European parliament election this past week. The European Greens gained 11 new seats in the parliament and will now have a total of 46 Green MEPs, an increase …

• Co-founder of the Pirate Bay wants you to vote green in the European elections

  Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi (more known as brokep) the co-founder of the Pirate Bay, the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker, also wants you to vote green in the upcoming European elections. Watch: via Vote or Die 2009 The upcoming European Elections are …

• European citizens: This is our chance to vote for the climate

  Photo credit: rockcohen The upcoming European Elections are just a few weeks away. And when it comes to saving the climate this EU election is one of the more important ones. And I believe it’s definitely something you must take …

• The BlueCar electric car by Pininfarina and Bolloré

  European car makers Pininfarina and Bolloré have created BlueCar, a hybrid vehicle powered by lithium-polymer batteries. According to the car makers the first units of this electric car will be delivered in about a year. Leases for the BlueCar will …

• Fertilizer Plants, Soccer Fields, Elementary Schools, Air Pollution and the Economic Crisis in Salamanca

  I play soccer in a large park in the eastern part of Salamanca. West of the park are the train tracks and on the other side of the tracks is a large elementary school, immediately east of the park is …

• Soccer, good energy PR, Representing the Stars and Bars and PETA’s Banned Super Bowl Ad

  Soccer in Spain is kind of a big deal. Rivalries here are pretty huge, Real Madrid vs. Barcelona is like Yankees vs. Red Sox but with more Catalunyan separatist pride, so it’s a much more political statement here. As I’ve …

• Amazing Spanish Energy Saving Innovation

  It’s called a clothes line. What you do is you connect a piece of string between two points so that it is taught and then you put wet clothing on it. This can be done inside or outside and it …

• Spain to open world’s biggest solar power tower

  Photo credit: afloresm The Guardian reports that in the Andalucian deserts, 20 miles outside Seville, the Spanish company Abengoa will soon open up the world biggest solar power tower. Over 1,000 mirrors, each “about half the size of a tennis …

• From Madrid to Salamanca, Eco-Friendly Pest Control and Ideas I Thought I had left Behind in the US

  From Madrid to Salamanca The trip has been pretty uneventful, nothing too eco/energy related to remark on except the usual thing about how trains are amazing ways to get around. But I did notice this as an East Coaster. The …