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Participation in the International Conference on Socio-Environmental Footprints (ICSEF) 2024
From June 13 to 14, 2024, we attended the International Conference on Socio-Environmental Footprints (ICSEF), organized by the Life Cycle Thinking Research Group of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and the non-governmental organization Medicus Mundi. The...
New European project on potential benefits and risks of the hydrogen economy
GEEDS has recently joined the HYDRA project (Hydrogen Economy Benefits and Risks: tools development and policies implementation to mitigate possible climate impacts), whose main objective is to better understand the climate and systemic impacts of large-scale use of...
WILIAM model up and running
We are happy to announce the release of WILIAM 1.3 BETA (available for Vensim software). This is the last version of the WILIAM model in Vensim to be released within the framework of the LOCOMOTION project. Despite this project ended in November 2023, a final effort...
LOCOMOTION Massive Open On-line Course (MOOC)
Our research group and the entire LOCOMOTION project team are happy to announce the LOCOMOTION MOOC, a four-day online course that will happen on the 3rd, 6th, 10th, and 13th of November 2023. The course will teach participants how to use the WILIAM (Within Limits...
Participation in workshop “Advancing quantitative analysis for alternative sustainable futures” at ICTA-UAB
On June 28th and 29th several members of our group participated in the workshop "Advancing quantitative analysis for alternative sustainable futures" at the Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. We were invited...
GEEDS joins the Scientific Charter against Denialism on the European Green Deal
Recently, the European Green Deal, embodied in the Sustainable Use Regulation (SUR) and the Nature Restoration Law (NRL) currently in the pipeline, has been attacked from a denialist and anti-scientific position, with opponents claiming that these two regulations will...
Interview with Carlos de Castro by “Sobrevivir al descalabro”
Some time ago our researcher Carlos de Castro gave un interesting interview to Sobrevivir al descalabro about Gaia theory. For the uninititated, Gaia hypothesis is created in the seventies by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis and is about how the biosphere behaves like...
Modelling of the Industrial Sector of Hydrogen for the Energy Transition
Source: Markusgann The energy transition to decarbonization is the process of progressively replacing the global energy system based on fossil fuels with a system based on energy sources which do not generate net positive emissions. There are very different transition...
Energy intensity as a determinant of the global economic structure and its implications for the energy transition
José Luis Sampedro provides a satisfactory definition of structure: “a set of elements and relations that characterize, with a certain degree of permanence, a reality” (Sampedro,1961). That is, to understand the structure of an economy, it is necessary to pay...
How to react to a new change in cosmology? An Interview with Carlos de Castro and Daniel W. McShea
Introduction and interview: Ramón del Buey Published in Spanish in the journal: Papeles nº158 https://www.fuhem.es/2022/08/26/papeles-158-malestares/ It is symptomatic that the French philosopher Bruno Latour entitled his lecture accepting the latest Kyoto Prize: "How...
LOCOMOTION summer school
Our leading project, LOCOMOTION, is having a summer school organized in Dubrovnik, Croatia this September. The summer school will give initial training to pre-doctoral students (last year master students with the potential of starting a PhD) and PhD students, so that...
Gaia could be a super-organism: a refutation of B. Latour and T. Lenton arguments on the contrary
This is a critique of B. Latour and T. Lenton paper: “Extending the domain of freedom, or why Gaia is so hard to understand” (Latour and Lenton 2019). The Editor of Critical Inquiry journal reject directly this text without peer-review. I sincerely believe, in...