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Ekoetxea Azpeitia Azpeitia

DETAILS

  • The building (Point)

    Ekoetxea Azpeitia is a facility intended for education about sustainability. It is housed in the hamlet of Egibar in the Loiola neighbourhood. It has 4 exhibition rooms dealing with topics related to climate change and natural heritage (climate change, atmosphere, water, biodiversity, population, cities, bioclimatic architecture, sustainable town planning, mobility, energy and transport, noise, waste and consumption and sustainable development). All this offers a wide, integrated set of environmental education services in the field of sustainability, as the programmes on offer are aimed at audiences ranging from primary school up to sixth-form level. The facility can also be visited by any individuals and groups interested in the subject. It also has other complementary programmes (the dump, the composting plant, the sustainable consumption classroom and garbigune or clean point located in Lapatx, the Igara water mill and water cycle management.

  • Xaguxatar park (Area)

    The Xaguxatar park is intended as a living space for leisure and contact with nature. As the Izarraitz massif is a Special Conservation Area, and is home to 4 different species of bats, the bat has been taken as the symbol of the new park, and will act as our guide on the tour, in information shown on a series of panels. 1,800 metres of space are divided into 5 different areas.

  • The insect hotel (Point)

    This consists of an area with nests for bats located in the façade of the museum overlooking the park. These hotel-nests offer a wide variety of textures, forming a relief design rather like a work of art.

  • The alternative stay (Point)

    This is an area with acacia trunks fixed horizontally as benches, and round wooden structures made of cable reels that serve as tables. Next to it is a pick-up-sticks game made from logs.

  • The maze (Point)

    This is a game area featuring different sensory perceptions. It has a plantation of bay trees.

  • The garden of vertic... ... (Point)

    A series of smoothed acacia trunks have been installed in this area, which also has an impressive cobweb made of rope.

  • The xaguxatar wall (Point)

    Through a system of holes connected in pairs, we've recreated the radar system used by bats on their night-time flights. It can also be used as a climbing wall.

  • The atmosphere and c... ... (Point)

    The earth's atmosphere is like a thin, fragile skin that contains the gases we need to breathe, that regulate the plant's temperature and block radiation that would be harmful to our health. Life on earth would not be possible without its protection. The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon in the atmosphere that regulates the planet's temperature. The atmosphere acts like a greenhouse roof. Part of the sun's energy is retained by greenhouse gases and the rest goes back into space. But now the increase in greenhouse gases is making the atmosphere retain more heat, increasing the temperature of the planet.

  • Water (Point)

    Water is an essential element for life. But the water on the planet is nearly all salty, with limited reserves of fresh water subject to excessive demand and deteriorating quality. All living things are made up of a high percentage of water. Moreover, water shapes the earth's relief and its abundance or scarcity determine biodiversity and the landscape. Hundreds of millions of human beings have difficulty getting the seven litres a day that they need to survive. And alongside poverty, waste is a common practice in developed countries. In industrialised countries, most of the population have clean, adequately sanitised water. In other countries the situation is very different. To meet their needs, human beings build dams and reservoirs, slowing down the water cycle. After purification and use, water is treated and can be used again before it is finally allowed to run away. But sometimes there are such large quantities of waste water with no or inadequate treatment that they are beyond the natural treatment capacity of rivers.

  • Biodiversity (Point)

    Biodiversity is a basic property of life that manifests itself at all levels of organisation, from cells to different species, ecosystems and landscapes. But biodiversity faces multiple threats. The survival and well-being of human beings depend entirely on nature's services (food, water, clothing, shelter, fuel, materials, medicines and so on). But practically all the ecosystems on the planet have been transformed or degraded by human activity. The loss of ecosystem services represents a major barrier to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

  • Population, cities a... ... (Point)

    50% of humanity lives in cities that take up no more than 5% of the earth's surface. By 2030 this figure will have reached nearly 5,000 million. Of these new city-dwellers, very many will be poor. The city is a complex ecosystem that interacts and necessarily depends on surroundings that supply water, power, food, wood and countless other resources, as well as taking the waste it generates. We have two models: diffuse cities and compact cities. In diffuse cities energy consumption is high and people live among their equals. In compact cities, everything is nearby, there are plenty of services and people and cultures are mixed together.

  • Energy and transport (Point)

    Energy production and consumption … vital to our survival, but at the same time the cause of multiple impacts. Energy consumption is rising, oil reserves are being depleted... hence the energy crisis, air pollution and conflicts for control of energy resources. Meanwhile, millions of tonnes of CO2 continue to be released into the atmosphere, speeding up climate change. Global energy consumption is constantly rising, especially in the transport sector. Transport: necessary but problematic Transport, especially private vehicles, helps to develop human relations, shrinks distances and brings hitherto inaccessible places within our reach. But it also creates problems.

  • Noise (Point)

    Noise... unwanted, loud, annoying, unexpected sounds. Noise has a range of effects and can cause irreversible injuries: loss of hearing, disrupted sleep, tiredness, stress, diminished ability to concentrate. Over a thousand different sounds and noises reach our ears every day. Noise is any unwanted sound. Sounds can have pleasant, relaxing effects (birdsong, music) and have always been used as vehicles for communication (bells, txalaparta - a Basque percussion instrument - and klaxon). Much of the population is exposed to noise levels that can be annoying or even harmful to health. So efforts are made through laws, rules and technical progress to try to control the countless sources of noise.

  • Sustainable developm... ... (Point)

    Setting the world on a path to global sustainability is a difficult challenge... but necessary - and not impossible. Among many other things, it calls for fair distribution of resources between present and future generations, here and all over the planet. Sustainable development must be founded on three basic pillars: ecoefficiency, sufficiency and social justice, which means sufficient well-being for everybody by consuming less energy, materials and land. But on the contrary, excessive consumption by 20% of the world's population can only be supported by under-consumption for the rest. The Basque Sustainable Development Environmental Policy 2002-2020 is a step in the right direction... though much more needs to be done.

  • Waste and consumptio... ... (Point)

    Rich countries account for 20% of the world's population but consume 80% of the planet's resources. Consumption of nature needs to be reduced, without diminishing well-being and whilst improving social justice. To do this, we already have new strategies to achieve global well-being with less energy and resources: Factor 4, Factor 10, Ecoefficiency, Ecodesign, Industrial Ecosystems and so on. But despite improvements in ecoefficiency, consumption of resources continues to increase because more and more objects and products are demanded.

  • The atmosphere and c... ... (Point)

    The earth's atmosphere is like a thin, fragile skin that contains the gases we need to breathe, that regulate the plant's temperature and block radiation that would be harmful to our health. Life on earth would not be possible without its protection. The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon in the atmosphere that regulates the planet's temperature. The atmosphere acts like a greenhouse roof. Part of the sun's energy is retained by greenhouse gases and the rest goes back into space. But now the increase in greenhouse gases is making the atmosphere retain more heat, increasing the temperature of the planet.

  • Biodiversity (Point)

    Biodiversity is a basic property of life that manifests itself at all levels of organisation, from cells to different species, ecosystems and landscapes. But biodiversity faces multiple threats. The survival and well-being of human beings depend entirely on nature's services (food, water, clothing, shelter, fuel, materials, medicines and so on). But practically all the ecosystems on the planet have been transformed or degraded by human activity. The loss of ecosystem services represents a major barrier to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

  • Energy and transport (Point)

    Energy production and consumption … vital to our survival, but at the same time the cause of multiple impacts. Energy consumption is rising, oil reserves are being depleted... hence the energy crisis, air pollution and conflicts for control of energy resources. Meanwhile, millions of tonnes of CO2 continue to be released into the atmosphere, speeding up climate change. Global energy consumption is constantly rising, especially in the transport sector. Transport: necessary but problematic Transport, especially private vehicles, helps to develop human relations, shrinks distances and brings hitherto inaccessible places within our reach. But it also creates problems.

  • Sustainable developm... ... (Point)

    Setting the world on a path to global sustainability is a difficult challenge... but necessary - and not impossible. Among many other things, it calls for fair distribution of resources between present and future generations, here and all over the planet. Sustainable development must be founded on three basic pillars: ecoefficiency, sufficiency and social justice, which means sufficient well-being for everybody by consuming less energy, materials and land. But on the contrary, excessive consumption by 20% of the world's population can only be supported by under-consumption for the rest. The Basque Sustainable Development Environmental Policy 2002-2020 is a step in the right direction... though much more needs to be done.

  • Waste and consumptio... ... (Point)

    Rich countries account for 20% of the world's population but consume 80% of the planet's resources. Consumption of nature needs to be reduced, without diminishing well-being and whilst improving social justice. To do this, we already have new strategies to achieve global well-being with less energy and resources: Factor 4, Factor 10, Ecoefficiency, Ecodesign, Industrial Ecosystems and so on. But despite improvements in ecoefficiency, consumption of resources continues to increase because more and more objects and products are demanded.

  • Waste and consumptio... ... (Point)

    Rich countries account for 20% of the world's population but consume 80% of the planet's resources. Consumption of nature needs to be reduced, without diminishing well-being and whilst improving social justice. To do this, we already have new strategies to achieve global well-being with less energy and resources: Factor 4, Factor 10, Ecoefficiency, Ecodesign, Industrial Ecosystems and so on. But despite improvements in ecoefficiency, consumption of resources continues to increase because more and more objects and products are demanded.

  • Population, cities a... ... (Point)

    50% of humanity lives in cities that take up no more than 5% of the earth's surface. By 2030 this figure will have reached nearly 5,000 million. Of these new city-dwellers, very many will be poor. The city is a complex ecosystem that interacts and necessarily depends on surroundings that supply water, power, food, wood and countless other resources, as well as taking the waste it generates. We have two models: diffuse cities and compact cities. In diffuse cities energy consumption is high and people live among their equals. In compact cities, everything is nearby, there are plenty of services and people and cultures are mixed together.

  • The building (Point)

    Ekoetxea Azpeitia is a facility intended for education about sustainability. It is housed in the hamlet of Egibar in the Loiola neighbourhood. It has 4 exhibition rooms dealing with topics related to climate change and natural heritage (climate change, atmosphere, water, biodiversity, population, cities, bioclimatic architecture, sustainable town planning, mobility, energy and transport, noise, waste and consumption and sustainable development). All this offers a wide, integrated set of environmental education services in the field of sustainability, as the programmes on offer are aimed at audiences ranging from primary school up to sixth-form level. The facility can also be visited by any individuals and groups interested in the subject. It also has other complementary programmes (the dump, the composting plant, the sustainable consumption classroom and garbigune or clean point located in Lapatx, the Igara water mill and water cycle management.

  • Water (Point)

    Water is an essential element for life. But the water on the planet is nearly all salty, with limited reserves of fresh water subject to excessive demand and deteriorating quality. All living things are made up of a high percentage of water. Moreover, water shapes the earth's relief and its abundance or scarcity determine biodiversity and the landscape. Hundreds of millions of human beings have difficulty getting the seven litres a day that they need to survive. And alongside poverty, waste is a common practice in developed countries. In industrialised countries, most of the population have clean, adequately sanitised water. In other countries the situation is very different. To meet their needs, human beings build dams and reservoirs, slowing down the water cycle. After purification and use, water is treated and can be used again before it is finally allowed to run away. But sometimes there are such large quantities of waste water with no or inadequate treatment that they are beyond the natural treatment capacity of rivers.