Friday, May 14th, 2010
The 2010 Federal Budget announced renewed funding for the GeoConnections program. The Budget provides $11 million in funding over the next two years to continue development of the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) and to provide consolidated geographic-related information to Canadians via the Internet. GeoConnections successfully delivered on its previous mandate to support CGDI users,
Friday, May 14th, 2010
Fugawi X-Traverse now has the complete line up of 2010 Edition Navionics Gold charts available for sale, including all international* charts. The award winning Navionics charts can be purchased for use with Mac OS X, iPhone or iPad. Read More
Friday, May 14th, 2010
With the recent release of iNavX™ version 3, boaters can now enjoy navigating using the power, speed and simplicity of the new Apple iPad. iNavX includes support for the NOAA RNC charts covering all of the United States Coastal Waters. Best of all, the iNavX Version 3 upgrade is free for existing iNavX users. Additional
Friday, May 14th, 2010
DEWHA – The Rudd Government will invest $18.0 million over four years to establish a groundbreaking National Plan for Environmental Information to help protect our precious environmental assets into the future. “The National Plan for Environmental Information is the first step towards long term reform of Australia’s environmental information base, building this critical infrastructure for
Friday, May 14th, 2010
The Sustainability Curriculum Framework provides information and guidance on how education for sustainability may be effectively incorporated into school curriculum from Kindergarten to Year 10. Its use is intended for school curriculum developers and policy makers at national, state and territory levels (and indirectly, all who utilize curricula in learning environments). Read More
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
Last year, the boards of The American Institute of Architects and the U.S. Green Building Council established a Joint Task Force to explore how our organizations could work more closely together to advance our respective missions and give stronger voice to our shared values. The desire to use our interdependence as a catalyst for stronger
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
May 5, 2010 (Rome, Italy) – It was an historic moment set in a 17th century opera house in Trento, Italy. What started last fall as an idea during World Green Building Day, culminated with representatives from both the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and Green Building Council Italia (GBC Italia) signing a Memorandum of
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
On 11 May 2010, the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) launched a Policy Brief with the title “Making African Forests Fit for Climate Change: A regional View of Climate-Change Impacts on Forests and People and Options for Adaptation”, at the current fourteenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice of the Convention
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
Map World Forum is a premier platform for the various stakeholders of geospatial technologies from across the globe to come together to deliberate upon the various dimensions and directions of Geospatial Industry. The forum will offer a unique in-depth learning environment on different aspects of geospatial technology. It will bring together some of the most
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
UNSDI – ESA’s TIGER II initiative has selected 20 project proposals across Africa to receive support from Earth-observation technology to learn more about the water cycle and to improve water-monitoring resources.ESA’s TIGER Capacity Building Facility (TCBF) has been established to support the 20 project proposals, which will receive specific technical assistance, training and scientific support
