Monday, October 15th, 2007
EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION – Tradable permits are all the rage in environmental policy. They are already used internationally to reduce carbon emissions and improve air quality. A group of economists and ecologists from the UK, the Netherlands and Germany, are working together to find out whether such schemes could work for wildlife too. So far,
Monday, October 15th, 2007
At the show, Infotech Enterprises GmbH will present the CAD viewer SpinFire Professional. This is an easy to use software solution which provides visualization, measuring, markup and import of all popular CAD formats without requiring a complex CAD system. Short importing times of CAD files allow fast access to all relevant formats, such as CATIA,
Monday, October 15th, 2007
1Spatial is pleased to announce the dates for its 2008 Conference. This industry leading Spatial Data Management conference, organised and managed for the second year by 1Spatial, will take place from the 29th April to 1st May at the prestigious Radisson SAS Hotel at Stansted Airport in the UK.
Monday, October 15th, 2007
A new service from Spot Image in partnership with Google, Spot Image is bringing fresh content to Google Earth with a selection of the best SPOT satellite imagery from all around the world. One World, One Year offers a selection of 50,000 SPOT scenes with the lowest available cloud cover acquired within the last year covering
Monday, October 15th, 2007
A quantitative analysis of the recent BIM survey showed that 58 percent of building professionals preferred the approach and features of Bentley BIM solutions while 38 percent preferred those of Autodesk’s Revit. Of those with “strongly preferred” responses, 69 percent chose Bentley BIM solutions and 31 percent chose Revit.
Monday, October 15th, 2007
In October, Toyota launched the “Green Design YouTube Channel” (http://www.youtube.com/toyotaeurope). Visitors to the channel will be able to watch a series of short clips on environmental innovation from a wide range of different sectors. The clips will be open for comment and will enable bloggers to share the videos with the online public.
Monday, October 15th, 2007
WorldWater & Solar Technologies Corp. (OTC BB: WWAT), developer and marketer of proprietary high-power solar systems, and ENTECH, Inc. of Keller, Texas, a high tech supplier of solar technology to NASA for space operations, announced today that they have signed an extension of their Letter of Intent (LOI) to merge from October 15, 2007 to
Monday, October 15th, 2007
BARCELONA REPORTER – Spain uses economic boom and demographics as pollution excuse | When it comes to the environment, Spain is the China of Europe. According to the government, population growth and the economic boom of the last ten years are making it very difficult for Spain to fulfill pollution emission limits and other environmental
Monday, October 15th, 2007
BELLONA NORWAY – A new study from Bellona concludes that wide deployment of CO2 Capture and Storage (CCS) can reduce global CO2 emissions by 33 percent by 2050. This proves that CCS is an important options for mitigating climate change. Read More
Monday, October 15th, 2007
AME INFO – DWC Commercial City, the business and commerce capital of Dubai World Central (DWC) – the 140 square kilometres urban aviation project under development in Jebel Ali, United Arab Emirates – has finalised its master plan that incorporates the best of city planning processes from around the world. Read More
