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We're not making moral judgments about countries. What we mean by a Good Country is something much simpler: it's a country that contributes to the greater good of humanity. A country that serves the interests of its own people, but without harming - and preferably by advancing - the interests of people in other countries too.

We're not making moral judgments about countries. What we mean by a Good Country is something much simpler: it's a country that contributes to the greater good of humanity. A country that serves the interests of its own people, but without harming - and preferably by advancing - the interests of people in other countries too.

"Our new blog is designed to radically reduce the energy use associated with accessing our content. Low-tech Magazine was born in 2007 and has seen minimal changes ever since. Because a website redesign was long overdue - and because we try to practice what we preach - we decided to build a low-tech, self-hosted, and solar-powered version of Low-tech Magazine. The new blog is designed to radically reduce the energy use associated with accessing our content. Why a Low-tech Website? We were told that the Internet would "dematerialise" society and decrease energy use. Contrary to this projection, it has become a large and rapidly growing consumer of energy itself. In order to offset the negative consequences associated with high energy consumption, renewable energy has been proposed as a means to lower emissions from powering data centers. For example, Greenpeace's yearly ClickClean report ranks major Internet companies based on their use of renewable power sources."

"Marc Masip (Barcelona, 1988) es psicólogo y fundador del Instituto Psicológico Desconecta, especializado en educar a los jóvenes en el buen uso del móvil y las redes sociales. En su libro Desconecta (Libros Cúpula) da algunos datos preocupantes, como que en España el 77% de las personas sufre nomofobia (miedo irracional a no tener su teléfono continuamente disponible), o que encabezamos el ranking europeo de adicción adolescente a las redes. Frente a esta realidad, propone una dieta digital que nos ayude a recuperar el control de nuestras vidas y la verdadera comunicación."