Sostenibilidad

Today we celebrate Earth Day. To preserve our planet’s natural resources of is not only a matter for political and international organizations: we can all do our bit by adopting a more sustainable lifestyle. If you also believe in sustainability, here are 10 commandments you can follow. There could be nine, there could be eleven. We do not seek to be dogmatic. Quite the contrary. Sustainability gives meaning to our work, and we ask you to help us promote it in our daily lives.

Today one of the most influential Latin American writers passed away. Internationally known for his book "A hundred years of solitude", Gabriel García Márquez helped us imagine how the lives of our future generations might be like. Holding the IPCC Climate Change Report at hand and imagining the future, we can only hope that our cities' future isn't as bleak as Márquez's Macondo — which was ultimately destroyed by a hurricane.

Sustainability is, thankfully, becoming a widespread concept in many industries. In the industrial design field, there are programs that allow you to swap out a material or production technique and factor their different environmental impacts.

Small developing island states (SDIS) are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. For this reason, some island states of the Caribbean region such as Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Barbados can serve as laboratories where different adaptation measures to meet the challenges of climate change can be tested, assessing their cost-effectiveness.

Climate change is something that will impact all of us in some way or another. Moreover, this environmental problem is cumulative by nature, which means that even if we cut all emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) today, we will still continue to feel its negative effects for a long time. Since the industrial revolution, human activities have led to the accumulation of large quantities of these gases in both the atmosphere and the oceans.