Monday, July 5th, 2010
NATIONAL UAE – Desertec, a plan to help power Europe with sunlight, starts with a simple idea: put solar energy plants around the Sahara and Middle East. The rest is complicated.Two weeks ago, the EU energy commissioner Gunther Oettinger met North African officials in Algiers to discuss integrating electricity markets. Mr Oettinger told Reuters electricity
Monday, July 5th, 2010
JORNAL DE BRASIL – Planning and appropriate preventive care, such as a flood warning system could have helped prevent deaths due to rains in Alagoas. According to researcher Jose Maria Brollo, director of the Center for Environmental and Engineering Geology of the Geological Institute (IG), linked to the Department of Environment of São Paulo, Brazil hasknowledge
Monday, July 5th, 2010
TIMES OF MALTA – Architects and planners recently discussed the pros and cons of structural and spatial planning systems. With reform in the air, this looks like a good time to make the leap to a new planning system. Ongoing reform of the Malta Environment and Planning Authority (Mepa) is peppered with lively discussions over
Monday, July 5th, 2010
OBSERVER UK – Terreform One, a New York non-profit design group led by 38-year-old architect Mitchell Joachim, offers answers to almost everything to do with cities and sustainability. Its prolific output of ideas includes blimps creeping nose-to-tail around cities, with seats hanging off them just above the ground so that people can jump on and
Monday, July 5th, 2010
The National Geochemical Survey of Australia (NGSA) aims to produce the first geochemical atlas of Australia based on the multi-element analysis of transported regolith samples collected at the outlet of large catchments covering most of the continent. The project, which is funded by the Onshore Energy Security Program and the States and Northern Territory Geological Surveys
Monday, July 5th, 2010
Geoscience Australia and the State Geological Surveys held the Science at the Surveys seminar in Melbourne immediately prior to the Australian Mineral Industry Research Association (AMIRA) Exploration Managers meeting. A presentation to the seminar by one of Geoscience Australia’s Senior Geophysicists, Richard Lane, titledDevelopments and directions in 3D mapping of mineral systems using geophysics is now
Monday, July 5th, 2010
Forest Trends, the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA), Rainforest Alliance and Fauna & Flora International (FFI) have published Version 1.0 of a “Manual for Social Impact Assessment of Land-Based Carbon Projects.” The Manual can be accessed at http://www.forest-trends.org/publications.php.The Manual is designed to be used by carbon project proponents aiming for validation under the CCB Standards,
Monday, July 5th, 2010
INDEPENDENT UK – Charging motorists for each mile they travel is “inevitable” if future traffic gridlock is to be avoided, a report from the RAC Foundation said today. A “pay-as-you-go” system could be the answer to congestion, said the report from the foundation’s director Professor Stephen Glaister. What was needed was a fundamental shift
Sunday, July 4th, 2010
Chronos Technology, the UK telecom network sync specialist, and designer and manufacturer of specialised GPS timing products, has appointed Andy Proctor as Divisional Manager, GNSS Applications and Solutions. Andy will manage the development and growth of the GNSS product and service portfolio within Chronos. He will also be responsible for Chronos’ eLoran solution portfolio and
Sunday, July 4th, 2010
GPS surveying equipment has officially measured one of the most challenging peaks in Wales at over 3,000 feet.Climbing enthusiasts feared that modern equipment could see Tryfan in Snowdonia – one of Wales’s ‘elite’ peaks – lose height and fall below the 3,000 foot marker that makes it one of the nations highest peaks. The measurements did
