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If you like learning about potential environmental utopias, you should take a look at this Inhabitat post on The Logroño Montecorvo Eco City project in Rioja, Spain. The future project is “an ambitious carbon neutral development north of [Rioja’s] capital city, Logroño.

A new machine that pasteurizes milk by using solar energy was recently installed in Nicaragua, thanks to researchers from the Agrarian University of Nicaragua and Spain’s University of Lérida. The primary goal for the machine is to help communities to save money. With its use of clean energy, it will also help to curtail global warming and perhaps will eventually help Nicaraguans to start new businesses.

Right in the center of Alicante (Spain) and on the tile roof of this parking, I ran into with this spectacular photovoltaic power station of near a hundred of kW...

A review of advances in solar panel technology and traditional polycrystalline silicon technology, with comments about advantages and disadvantages of these approaches. Problems with the Chinese silicon production industry are mentioned, as are successes in Germany and Spain. Links and references are provided.

A summary and re-cap of Earth Hour 2008, with links to many relevant sites and news articles. There is additional information on significant solar energy implementation by Spain and Germany (which were not major participants in Earth Hour 08). A final commentary is offered on cynics.

For fourth year in a row, this March have begun the births in the Program of Ex--situ Conservation (PCE) of this Iberian feline, which is believed to remain less than than 200 specimens in the planet. Today, without counting the new births of the year yet, 37 lynxes (16 males and 21 females) integrate this particular community, that is wanted to guarantee the genetic survival of the species. (in Spanish)

The newest museum in Madrid, CaixaForum, got a vertical garden on one of the exterior walls. Designed by Swiss architects Herzog & Meuron, there are 15,000 plants from more than 250 different species

Madrid - By the end of this century, Spanish summers will come as waves of scorching heat, leaving southern regions as parched as the Sahara and bathing northern areas in a climate more akin to the present-day Mediterranean.Fresh, clean drinking water will become increasingly scarce, rising sea levels will shrink beaches by dozens of meters and higher levels of atmospheric contamination will spawn new diseases.

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