Monday, June 27th, 2011
Public interest in climate issues has dropped to its lowest point in five years, according to the upcoming annual SOM report from the University of Gothenburg. Only 14 percent of Swedes currently consider the environment to be among our most important problems, reports daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. This is the lowest figure since 2006, and
Monday, June 27th, 2011
Poland opposes European Commission plans to cut CO2 emissions as such proposals are likely to drive up energy prices, EU Affairs Minister Mikolaj Dowgielewicz told Polish news agency PAP.Polish Economy Minister Waldemar Pawlak told a press conference that the plans posed a danger to the EU economy as a whole, including the heavily coal-dependent Polish
Monday, June 27th, 2011
The company, called Pythagoras Solar, is one of five firms to win an Innovation Award from the program’s “Powering Your Home” challenge, in which GE invested $63 million this round and also provided sizeable awards to 10 commercial partners in addition to the smaller firms. Currently in its second year, the challenge has now provided
Monday, June 27th, 2011
Britain's biggest array of solar panels has begun generating in Oxfordshire. The first large ground system to feed into the national grid will benefit from the tariff scheme paying a premium for supplying clean electricity. Howbery business park's companies specialise in engineering, environmental and water research and development and its 3,000-panel array generates up to
Sunday, June 26th, 2011
Evgeny Kaspersky is one of Russia’s top Internet virus hunters and IT entrepreneurs. In a SPIEGEL interview, he discusses a raft of recent hacker attacks on multinationals, the “total professionals” behind the Stuxnet virus and his fear of both personal and widespread cyber violence. Read More
Sunday, June 26th, 2011
With the state grant rapidly running out on its Geographic Information System program, the Northeastern Connecticut Council of Governments is looking to a possible interstate cooperative to keep it going for a low cost.The program, known as GIS, has been funded by an $860,000 state grant the council received in 2008. The program has created
Sunday, June 26th, 2011
eielAC is the geographic information system created and used by the technical staff of the Provincial Council of A Coruña (Spain). It includes a database of geographic information related to local administration, a spatial data infrastructure node (ideAC), a desktop application to visualize and edit the information in the database (gisEIEL, which is a separate
Sunday, June 26th, 2011
Round table on the topic of “Spatial data infrastructure of federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina” had been held in hotel Sarajevo on June 21st, 2011, in Sarajevo, organized by the Federal administration for surveying and property rights with the Federal Ministry for spatial planning. Participation in this round table was also taken by the Republic Geodetic
Sunday, June 26th, 2011
Many Public Domain objects need to be inventorized. Inventories need to be maintained. Some maintenance programs are steered by law, others remain at the initiative of the local authority or other owner. With the inventory, a series of documents, photographs and other elements are relevent to execute the task of maintenance of the public domain.
Sunday, June 26th, 2011
The final proceedings of the earlier held GI2011 Conference are now available for download. The GI2011 final version of the proceedings have been reviewed. Read More
