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9 Nov

@KarlMathiesen

Now that the election is settled, how about coming along on a leisurely bike trip across the Belgian countryside? That's what @KarlMathiesen and I did in order to explore the struggle that cities face as they try to decarbonize urban transport and meet the EU's climate targets.

EU cities have a clear role to play on the bloc's progress toward its 2050 climate neutrality goal: zero-emission mobility is a priority, and there's a serious push to free streets of emissions-spewing vehicles that take up public space. But that's easier said than done.

To check out what factors differentiate the cities struggling with clean mobility from those that are already green models, Karl and I hopped on our bikes and spent a morning pedaling from the Brussels to the Flemish university city of Leuven (and nearly back again).

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Aitor Hernández-Morales

@aitorehm

8 Nov

@politico

Per our American cousins at U.S. @politico, frontrunners for Biden’s cabinet include...

State: Susan Rice
Treasury: Lael Brainard (or Elizabeth Warren)
AG: Doug Jones
Transport: Eric Garcetti
Commerce: Meg Whitman
Energy: Ernest Moniz
VA: Pete Buttigieg

politi.co/2IdHxAc

Energy watchers: Moniz (the son of Portuguese immigrants from the Azores) is a nuclear physicist who served as Obama’s Energy Sec. (2013–2017). Back-up contenders include WMD expert Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall and thermoelectric scientist Arun Majumdar, ex director of ARPA-E.

Given Biden’s plans to green U.S. energy it’s kind of surprising that there’s no one with a clear background in renewables on the list (Moniz’s links to the fossil fuels industry trouble activists), but all the candidates have experience in government.

newrepublic.com/article/159357…

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Aitor Hernández-Morales

@aitorehm

20 Sep

https://twitter.com/EmiliaChacon/status/1307758766021111808

There's a full-on spectator’s revolt underway at Madrid’s #TeatroReal. The audience at tonight’s production of Verdi’s ‘Un ballo in Maschera’ is in an uproar because while socially distant seating is happening at the floor-level, the cheap balcony seats are packed together.

https://twitter.com/EmiliaChacon/status/1307758766021111808

https://twitter.com/AMariaMc/status/1307742604554010634

Although the theatre's management has told the crowd that they're running the show at 50% capacity, the images being tweeted out by spectators show some pretty full rows up top... And a lot of empty seats in the noble area down below.

https://twitter.com/AMariaMc/status/1307742604554010634

@EmiliaChacon

According to this great thread from @EmiliaChacon, the opera has started one hour after schedule and the curtain has come down just ten minutes later due to the audience's incessant complaints. It's unclear if the performance has been called off.

https://twitter.com/EmiliaChacon/status/1307759454729969664

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Aitor Hernández-Morales

@aitorehm

31 May

Aw man, Christo Javacheff (the surviving half of the Christo and Jeanne-Claude environmental art couple) has died. He and his wife came up with some really brilliant projects during the remarkable half century during which they brought us really novel ways of seeing the world.

Anyone who grew up in Miami knew their Surrounded Islands project, when they wrapped up 11 islets in Biscayne Bay in Pepto-Bismol pink fabric. It happened back in 1983, but we all heard about it for years afterwards via teachers with prints of the projects tacked on their walls.

But way before that they wrapped part of the coast of Australia, hung a giant curtain across a canyon in Colorado, built a billowing fence across California...

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Aitor Hernández-Morales

@aitorehm

2 May

Tres cosillas sobre el dos de mayo de 1808 en Madrid:

1. Todo empezó porque un soldado francés se puso chulo con un infante de España.

En 1808 los nobles españoles estaban escandalizados por la manera en la que se había permitido la ocupación francesa de la Península y hartos del liderazgo inepto de Manuel Godoy. Tampoco gustaban los rumores de que Carlos IV iba a copiar a los reyes de Portugal y huir a América.

El 17 de marzo se lanza un pseudo-golpe en el sitio real de Aranjuez -- el célebre Motín -- y se consigue que Carlos IV destituya a Godoy y abdique en el príncipe Fernando. No era que Fernando era prometedor -- siempre fue un inútil -- pero cualquier cambio era bienvenido.

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Aitor Hernández-Morales

@aitorehm

25 Apr

Venga, con motivo del 46º aniversario de la Revolución de los Claveles, y con la mañana más o menos libre por primera vez en un largo rato, aquí va un #lusohilo reducido sobre el fin de la dictadura salazarista y el golpe militar que devolvió la democracia a Portugal.

Como ya hemos contado en hilos anteriores, Salazar llegó al poder en medio del caos de la Primera República Portuguesa, que se instauró tras el regicidio de 1908 y el colapso definitivo de la monarquía en 1910. Si bien el primer régimen republicano era progresista y ambicioso...

...Estaba dividido entre facciones de una tendencia más jacobina, que exigían una ruptura radical con aquella Portugal putrefacta de la última etapa de la monarquía, y una rama que abogaba por un camino más moderado. Ambas partes eran anticlericales, y la crispación era intensa.

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