Category: Energy
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Los Maklenkes Farmer Nature Reserve: An example of community conservation in Santander, Colombia
Picture taken from: Rural Sociology Wageningen University In the warm mountains of Floridablanca, Santander, Colombia, there is a gem of biodiversity protected by the hands and hearts of farmers: the Farmer Natural Reserve Los Maklenkes. This space, located in the hill La Judía, was born in 2001 thanks to the efforts of Gustavo Saavedra, his…
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The Just Energy Transition and metals’ demand
This image was generated locally using the diffussion model Mitsua, trained from scratch using only public domain or copyright images with permission for use.
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Women, river and development
When they cut down the trees, it was like my arms were taken away It was the phrase a Rioloreña native girl spoke at the Muralism Festival held in Rioloro and Nueva Veracruz in 2017 regarding the construction of the El Quimbo hydroelectric plant in Huila, Colombia. Being a city girl, without living direct consequences…
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The ethics behind wind power systems
In Colombia, renewable energy technologies are recently implemented. Although wind energy’s execution started more than 20 years ago in industrialized countries, here is part of a new scene in which public and private entities’ efforts are directed towards energy transition. On paper, only 0.1% of the energy transformed in the country comes from one wind…
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Are renewable energy systems as clean as they seem?
“The local people started to use the solar panels like rackets to play Ping Pong” said a teacher in my Renewable Energy class a few years ago when I was still in college. He was talking about a solar system project implemented in one of the many poor towns located in Colombia. I remember his…