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Masks are essential for stopping the spread of COVID-19 during the pandemic and they have become an every day accessory. However, what are the effects of huge increase in the use of disposable masks? The environment is in danger of being another victim if masks are not disposed of carefully.
In December 2019 a new type of coronavirus arised in China. Its expansion around the world forced millions of people to be confined into their homes in the next months. How can we cope in this situation? How can we make it more bearable? How can we keep ourselves entertained? We bring you a list of some of the key lessons that confinement has taught us, in the hope that this global lockdown will never happen again.
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Psychologists, psychiatrists and experts from Silicon Valley are warning that social media use can be addictive and its consequences the same as those of any other addiction: anxiety, dependence, irritability, lack of self-control, etc. Faced by this prospect, people are increasingly asking: are social media a real problem?
We share cars to travel and also a house to live in as well. Cohousing or collaborative living, a concept prior to the era of sharing, is a horizontal property management model, non-speculative, sustainable and popular in the US or Nordic countries where people live in a community and share areas and basic services.
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The world's cities, which are on track to house 68% of the world's population by 2050 according to the United Nations, are crucial in the fight against climate change. That is why many have banded together, calling themselves C40, to reduce carbon emissions in the atmosphere and adapt to a phenomenon that will condition the future of the planet. The following explains some of their strategies.
An efficient home enables you to save energy and some methods of making these improvements such as a façade with insulating properties, windows that don't lose heat and to control water consumption are quite affordable. Let's look at how you can make your home even more environmentally friendly.