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Excedentes de comida: alimentos para la población mundial

Cada año en el mundo se desperdician 40 millones de toneladas de alimentos. Con la comida que tiramos a la basura en los países de Europa y en Estados Unidos, se podría alimentar al resto de la población mundial.

Article title: Environmental campaign “Cleaning Bolaños”

The youth department of the Bolaños de Calatrava Council launched an environmental campaign tackling the street cleaning several years ago. This campaign is an important matter in the development of the whole city nowadays.

Do you Know the Slow Food philosophy?

Think global, act local. Km 0 Food. Slow Food is a global partnership that, given the current trend of fast food consumption, defends the local gastronomic culture and local products or km. 0 food.

The Andalusian Shepherd School

No days off nor weekends. However being a shepherd has become a labour exit for many young who have had the opportunity of attending classes at the Andalusian Shepherd School. No need to have previous experience; the profile required is to be active and dynamic.

Does your foot fit on this earth?

How much nature do we have? And how much do we use? Here you can calculate your ecological footprint and find out how many planets would be necessary if everyone would have your lifestyle.

The Food Assembly: Sustainable Entrepreneurship

Model of entrepreneurship with Sustainable Development Goal: Responsible consumption and production

Fighting climate change together

We all have a duty to combat climate change. The actions we take now will have an impact in the world we live in the future. But what can we do to face this problem?

Save the trees

Forests and woodland cover over 42% of the EU’s land area, and EU forests make up 5% of the world’s forests. Forests help regulate the climate, protecting us from natural disasters.

Social Gardens-Community Orchard

Not only from political, taking decisions centres can act to try to contribute ideas to help save our environment more hedges, and by extension the world. More and more citizens' initiatives from local try give a hand. An example is the creation of social or community urban gardens.

Used clothing: solidarity, recycling, business

Like any consumer good, clothing does not disappear after having reached the end of what we consider its useful life.

Isla Cristina saltworks: tradition and modernity from Andalusia

Salt, a traditional element from the Mediterranean cuisine, it´s now been exploited in saltworks like Biomaris (Huelva). Furthermore, it has become a sustainable element for the local economy. New times, new ways of catching up level within the international economic landscape.

Spain is one of the countries in Europe with more blue flag beaches

The Blue Flag is a distinctive whose origin is in the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) in 1985, developed internationally in 1987.

Green Economy & Green Culture

On Friday 29th of May I had the opportunity to participate to the opening day of the 2nd edition of “La feria de Economia verde, solidaria y del bien comun”, the fair of green economy, solidarity and of the welfare.

Do you share?

Would you like to save money while you take care of environment and create new social ties?

Global thinking: A green world, preserving nature

LIFE+Iberlice: an European project designed to recover the Iberian Lynx population in Andalusia and Portugal.

Discovering the ecological wealth of Spain

Spain is a land of contrasts, and a proof of this is each of the fifteen parks that make up the Network of National Parks. Each of them has its own personality and characteristics, uniques and unrepeatable: You go can go for a walk by volcanic lava fields, majestic mountains or extensive wetlands. You have a huge range of possibilities! If you like nature, don’t hesitate to delve into any of these privileged and wonderful places ... We invite you to know and enjoy our natural heritage!.

“Algae”: a renewed eco-friendly enterprise from Andalucía

Mónica, Raquel and Consuelo are three young entrepreneurs who have get a pioneer project started: the commercialization of algae from Cadiz.

Heavens (almost) missing

How many places we would go on a trip? We could name hundreds, maybe more. There are sites that sometimes you can only dream about them or, at most, using the technology to see them through a screen.

Patrimonio Natural de España

El patrimonio natural de España engloba todo el conjunto de bienes de índole natural situadas en el territorio español. Es apasionante la diversidad de la que disfrutamos a lo largo de nuestro territorio

Just plant it!

How can help us a plant's presence in our daily lives? In this article we tell you what benefits we provide certain plants to combat everyday ailments

Barter: the second life of many of our objects

The movement that favors cooperation and reusing of materials that are no longer necessary for us has brought a revolution in traditional habits.

Walking without borders

Sonia Ibañez is the first Spanish woman to complete the Appalachian Trail U.S. Do you want to know more about her experience?

Greenways: healthy ways

The rise of the sport has been linked, in most cases, to the creation of the necessary infrastructure to ensure that sport is performed under the best possible conditions.

The Environmental Volunteer in Spain

The uncontrolled growth that we live since the last century has been slowly altering plant and animal populations, seriously endangering ecosystems and human life until today.

Grow your own food and make yourself an urban gardener

If you are looking forward improving your way of life, including feeding in the most wide sense of the expression, you may go on reading ahead. Growing an urban garden can bring you a blow of healthy breath to grey urban life.

Spain's Nature Heritage

Spain's Nature Heritage encompasses the full range of nature goods from the whole spanish territory.

Traveling through Europe: What is the weather like?

In this article, we want to give some basic notions to travel with as much guarantees as posible of being prepared for the weather in the área. In this way we can prepare much better our trip.

Los híbridos, vehículos de futuro emergente

Hybrids, vehicles of future

There are several additional factors contributing to the birth of a new type of vehicles

Environmental Volunteering

Young people are increasingly aware of their ability to contribute and help society to which they belong

Green house? know how!

“Before changing the world, give three laps around your house” (Chinese proverb)