“With War, Climate Change and Poor Conditions, it is easy to Blame the Other”
by What is your greatest fear? What is your greatest hope? These are the two questions that Copenhagen-based Danish artist Charlotte Haslund-Christensen asked women and men …
Author: Marta Apablaza Riquelme
Affordable and clean energy / Applied Sciences / Clean water and sanitation / News / Quality education
Solar Thermal Project Provides Hot Water to Quilpué School
The Luis Cruz Martínez School in Quilpué, a school with a high level of vulnerability, installed a solar panel system to supply renewable energy to …
Affordable and clean energy / Applied Sciences / Industry, innovation and infrastructure / Natural Sciences
Pataguas Cerro and La Cebada: The History of the First Community Photovoltaic Plants in the O’Higgins Region
In the middle of fertile valleys that produce corn, wheat, potatoes, oranges, lemons, avocados, peaches and grapes, and with the Cachapoal River as their northern …
Smart Greenhouse: Efficiency and Ancestral Knowledge to Combat Climate Change
Technological innovation and indigenous tradition can go hand in hand and provide a better quality of life to children and adults in Mapuche communities —who …
Hernan Rivera Letelier: The Storyteller From the Chilean Atacama Desert
The Atacama desert is the main character of all the stories, poems, and novels written by Hernan Rivera Letelier (b. 1950), a Chilean writer who …
Lone Scherfig: “I Wish And Hope That The People Who Have Lived This Life Feel That This Was The Best Film You Could Make Out Of This Book.”
A young girl goes to the movies every sunday in an impoverished Chilean saltpeter mining town in the Atacama Desert of the 1960s. Her love …
A Love Story: How Chileans Try to Protect Their Coast and Ocean From Climate Crisis
Humans have a deep love and longing for the ocean. For centuries, we have written poems, composed songs, created paintings, and made sculptures to express …
The Role of Women in Reducing Organic Waste in Chile
Climate change is one of the main challenges that humanity faces around the world today. And women being half of the world’s population have been …
Dealing With a Water-Hungry Enterprise: How Science is Looking for a Water-Less Copper Industry in Chile
Chile has its massive copper mining industry to thank for a sizable portion of its gross national production, but the country can also point to …
Gabriel Abarca-Brown: Rescuing Transcultural Psychiatry
The intersections of psychotechnologies, global mental health, subjectivity, and everyday life, highlighting historical, cross-cultural, intersectional, and decolonial aspects. This is the line of research of …