In just under three decades, Bilbao has traveled a path that has radically transformed its model of city. What was once an incredibly polluted industrial city is now an example of urban planning, modernity, ecology and sustainability. The Program “Reduce your footprint”.broadcast on the second channel of Spanish television, It will show how did it happen transformation in a new chapter that will air this Saturday.
A revitalized environment
Adela Úcar, presenter of this information space, will cross the estuary, spine De la Villa, on a jet ski. A large part of the cultural and urban metamorphosis of the city revolved around it. Also, Úcar will check it where before there was waste and polluted water, there is now an ecosystem full of life.
The Guggenheim and its clean air
First, the vehicle will stop at the Guggenheim facilities, the germ of the “Bilbao Effect”. The Bilbao Art Gallery has a innovative system that purifies its closest environment.
The island of Zorrotzaurre: next milestone of sustainable urban planning
Subsequently, following the course of the water artery, Úcar will reach the island of Zorrotzaurre, which in less than a decade will become the last flag of environmentally friendly urban development.
The port and its pioneering wind turbine
The program visit to Bilbao will culminate in bringswhere Adela will discover the Villa’s first floating wind turbine. The reporter will explain how this engineering work was done.
La Arboleda: from the mine to the green lung
Finally, leaving the estuary behind, the journalist will travel by funicular to La Arboleda: an old mine transformed into a gigantic green lung. He will be there where Adela will reduce its footprint, at the Basque Biodesign Institute, making a fee that will be, according to TV show sources, “an entire work of art.”
