Monday, April 4th, 2011
British architects have become political and cultural punch-bags, and the Budget’s “radically relaxed” planning rules in Enterprise Zones will batter them even more. Ruth Reed, president of the Royal Institute of British Architects (Riba), welcomes the Chancellor’s proposal with a pathos-laden hope that the new rules will “protect the essential requirements of sustainability and good
Monday, April 4th, 2011
The planet’s first GLONASS phone is now available, but it surely looks like you’ll want to soar over to Russia so that it will use it. For sure, in the event you’ve followed the GLONASS story in any respect you wouldn’t find that shocking in the slightest degree, and in case you favor to pick
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
The greatest risk is believed to be in Pori, on the coast of the Gulf of Bothnia and at the mouth of the Kokemäenjoki river. More than 20,000 people live within the area that could be susceptible to exceptional seasonal flooding. Matters are exacerbated by the fact that there are a number of locations in
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
he German energy giant RWE on Friday became the first to legally challenge Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to temporarily shut down the country’s oldest nuclear reactors. The company filed a lawsuit in an administrative court in the German city of Kassel against the mandated shutdown of its Biblis A reactor. Read More
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
Cities are undergoing great change today. Changing climate, economics, population growth and technological innovation are all contributing toward changes within cities that result in renewal, sustainable designs, adaptation and development that addresses issues of sustainability. Green urbanism attempts to address these pressures. Author Steffen Lehmann is UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Urban Development. A German architect,
Saturday, April 2nd, 2011
Statoil, along with partners Eni Norway and Petoro, has made a significant oil discovery on the Skrugard prospect in the Barents Sea, estimmated to contain between 150–250 million recoverable barrels of oil equivalent (boe). Statoil calls it a breakthrough discovery, and one of the most important finds on the Norwegian continental shelf in the last decade. Read
Saturday, April 2nd, 2011
However, soils are subjected to many threats, so there is an urgent need to preserve this resource which is not renewable at the Human time scale. The European Commission wants to define a policy for the sustainable management of soils with a view to adopting a legally binding Soil Framework Directive, such as exists for
Saturday, April 2nd, 2011
Volunteers from various countries post updates on their neighbourhoods or travel to remote places to map the area before uploading their findings to Google Map Maker, the company said at a conference in Singapore. Contributors can add new roads and landmarks or debate with neighbours about the names of streets on the virtual map, which is
Friday, April 1st, 2011
The green market for new construction is growing with builders to suppliers jumping to meet the demand. The green market was 2 percent of non-residential construction starts in 2005; 10 to 12 percent in 2008; and will grow to 20 to 25 percent by 2013. Not only is the demand growing, the evidence is mounting for
Friday, April 1st, 2011
Ambarella, Inc., a leader in low-power, HD video compression and image processing semiconductors, today announced the A7 IP Camera SoC, bringing high-quality 1080p60 H.264 performance to the video surveillance market. The A7 integrates a high performance image sensor pipeline with up to 500 MHz pixel capture rate with a multi-streaming 1080p60 H.264 encoder and power
