Saturday, June 5th, 2010
SOFIA BULGARIA – Bulgaria and countries around the globe mark Saturday, June 5, World Environment Day (WED), under the patronage of the United Nations. In Bulgaria, the Ministry of Environment has organized several large-scale national campaigns. Environment Minister, Nona Karadzhova, and the Mayor of Sofia, Yordanka Fandakova, are launching the events in Sofia’s South Park,
Saturday, June 5th, 2010
SANTIAGO TIMES – A proposal to build a wind farm in Casablanca, a city about one hour from Santiago and known for its wine and proximity to the Pacific coast, was approved unanimously during the latest Regional Environment Commission (Corema). Read more
Saturday, June 5th, 2010
GLASGOW HERALD – The UK construction sector increased its overall workforce in May for the first time in two years, as recovery from deep recession continued, a key survey has shown. And the civil engineering sub-sector finally returned to growth mode in May, after a 23-month downturn, according to the survey from the Chartered Institute
Friday, June 4th, 2010
Many NGOs and development practitioners are hoping to increase their knowledge of project design and development in order to work successfully with community members in developing successful, sustainable forest conservation and restoration projects. In an effort to make our impact training courses internationally accessible, we have launched key courses inexpensively online on project design, adapting
Friday, June 4th, 2010
Tactical Communications, provider of leading technology and services for emergency and disaster communications, today announced an agreement to distribute Surveylab’s Ike1000 series of geospatial field data collection tools in Texas. Texas-based municipal and federal public safety agencies are leveraging emerging GPS and GIS technologies to help measure, monitor, and manage their assets. “The advent of
Friday, June 4th, 2010
BBC – The European Commission has threatened to take the UK to the European Court of Justice over air quality breaches. The UK could end up paying as much as £300m in fines. The government received a second and “final” warning from the commission after the levels of dangerous airborne particles, or PM10s, in London
Friday, June 4th, 2010
ALL AFRICA – Lack of transformation in agribusiness has led to the industry’s black economic empowerment programmes scoring low for management control and employment equity, an independent study shows. The study, presented to the Agricultural Business Chamber’s congress in Somerset West in the Western Cape yesterday, was compiled by the University of Pretoria’s Prof Johann
Friday, June 4th, 2010
HELSINGIN SANOMAT – Last summer, Viitanen proposed the name change to the Finnish Rail Administration. At present, new blue signs are being installed at the station, with the new name in an abbreviated form: Helsinki C (like centrum or central). Furthermore, the new name will be printed in the timetables, and announcements on trains will
Friday, June 4th, 2010
EGYPT DAILY NEWS – Ethiopian Minister of Mines and Energy Alemayehu Tegenu told Al-Masry Al-Youm there should be no problems in funding a tripartite electricity project with the countries of the eastern Nile basin (Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt), after studies proved the economic and technical benefits of the project. Read More
Friday, June 4th, 2010
DUTCH NEWS – Passengers using buses, trams and the metro in Amsterdam will have to travel using a public transport smart card, or ov-chipkaart, from Thursday. The greater Amsterdam region is now the second area of the country to have stopped the use of paper tickets. Rotterdam made the change last year. Read More
