Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
SCOTTISH GOV – Rural land makes up 97 per cent of the country, accounts for one in every six jobs and generates over £17 billion a year for the economy.Those key findings were among many to be found in new research published today at Scotland’s first-ever Land Use Summit. Read More
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
ONTARIO GOV – Ontario is supporting world-class clean energy research projects to help spark new, renewable energy options and clean power for families and create high-value jobs in Hamilton. In total, the province is investing $33 million at McMaster University to support more than 300 researchers. Read More
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
DER SPIEGEL – An aggressive rollout of intelligent electrical meters is saving Italy’s Enel 750 million dollars per year — and cutting customers’ bills After several false starts, 2010 finally could be the year when smart meters go global. The technology, which lets energy companies and consumers more closely monitor their electricity consumption, has many
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Space Imaging Middle East (SIME), along with European Space Imaging (EUSI) and DigitalGlobe, Inc., are pleased to announce the preview of the WorldView Global Alliance at the Dubai Airshow, November 15-19. Read More
Friday, November 13th, 2009
3D visualisation models have a variety of applications in geography and urban studies, including site location analysis, emergency facilities planning, design review and marketing. A pressing problem facing many of these models is their general inability to engage the vast majority of their users and the people whose lives they influence in a meaningful and
Friday, November 13th, 2009
Greenbuild International Conference and Expo – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, today announced that it has added Green Building XML (gbXML) 0.37 schema support to its Hevacomp products for building energy design, analysis, and simulation. The Hevacomp software joins a growing
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
NEW EUROPE – Armenia’s Energy Minister Armen Movsisian recently announced that Russia expressed strong interest in the construction of a new nuclear plant facility in Armenia that will have a projected capacity nearly three times exceeding that of the existing one, Armenia Liberty.org reported. We will openly announce that we are implementing such a construction
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
MTR Wireless Communications, the developer of Smart Grid AMR/AMI/Control solutions to both public and private Water, Electricity and Gas utility distribution grids, today announced that they will show case their Smart Grid technology at WATEC 2009, 17/19 Nov 2009, Tel Aviv Exhibition Center. Hall 11b Booth 23. MTR Smart Grid™ solution combines two-way wireless technology,
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
Freight transport exposes many people to exhaust gas emissions and noise and contributes significantly to climate change. UBA’s “Strategy for Sustainable Freight Transport” shows that this can be changed. The report describes the past, present and future development of freight transport, identifies conflicts with environmental protection requirements and presents measures to reduce its environmental impacts.
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
The Nature-SDIplus is a Best Practice Network development project co-funded by the European Commission under the eContentplus Programme. It is aimed at harmonizing EU national datasets on nature conservation, stimulating the community of stakeholders; sharing best practices, improving the exploitation and access to the datasets. In such a view, NATURE-SDIplus aims to support the implementation
