Thursday, July 15th, 2010
CITY OF LONDON – The London Development Agency has won a top sustainability award for its programme to make public buildings more energy efficient and cut their carbon emissions. The RE:FIT programme received a Highly Commended award for outstanding achievement in the Sustainability Initiative of the Year category at the annual Government Opportunities (GO) magazine
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
ABC Australia – The threat to the world’s biodiversity is well documented. In Australia, 427 animal species are threatened with extinction and more than 1000 plants are also on the brink. Now The United Nations has done a study which looks at the cost to the economy of such a loss. It shows on average one
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
ORACLE Blog – As stated many times before, the development of sustainable and smart solutions will continue to accelerate as governments increasingly make steps towards building their own low carbon economy and meet EU commitments of reduce renewable energy by 20 per cent by 2020. Such commitments inevitably mean that smart technologies will gain increased
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
With the economic growth and technological advancement, to build transport network infrastructure is an important issue and development goal in developing countries. In Taiwan, to facilitate citizens to gain complete and accurate traffic information in real time, the government actively planned, developed and constructed the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS). However, the city/county governments and related
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
The powerful and well-functioning transport, electricity, gas and telecommunications networks secure the competitiveness of the Swiss economy and the internal cohesion of our country. To make this even 2030 is still the case, should the existing capacities optimally managed, correct any possible bottlenecks and expansions are planned in advance. The strategy report “Future of the
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
More than 150 organizations were selected from approximately 300,000 to receive a Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award in a special ceremony today at the 30th Annual Esri International User Conference (Esri UC). The winning organizations received this honor for their vision, leadership, hard work, and innovative use of Esri’s geographic information system (GIS) technology. “We
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
BroadMap is proud to announce the launching of their new website. BroadMap, a leading provider of geospatial solutions, is an emerging, innovative, strategic and results-oriented full-service GIS company specializing in providing government, non-profit and commercial business partners with custom-fit, turnkey geospatial solutions. BroadMap’s new website represents a complete redesign of the user interface in order
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
In coordination with Digital Map Products (DMP), developers can now easily overlay over 100 million US parcels to more easily identify boundaries between properties. Using a simple, native method in Bing Maps and DMP’s ParcelStream API with just 7 lines of code (yes, SEVEN) you can tap into this wonderful trove of parcel information. So,
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
There have been few integrated assessments of the economic, social and environmental benefits of Global Earth Observation. In an effort to address these issues, the European Commission sponsored project “Global Earth Observation – Benefit Estimation: Now, Next and Emerging” (GEOBENE) developed methodologies and analytical tools to assess the societal benefit areas of GEO in the
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
The Madrean Archipelago Biodiversity Assessment (MABA) is a project of Sky Island Alliance (SIA), a non-profit conservation organization based in Tucson, Arizona. The project, principally sponsored by a grant from the French-based Veolia Environment Foundation http://www.fondation.veolia.com/en/ is an ambitious effort to document the biodiversity and to preserve these biologically rich environments of the Sky
