Sunday, September 30th, 2007
German Government – Germany’s continuing renewables boom created more new jobs last year than predicted. According to a newly published study, around 235,000 people were employed in Germany’s renewables industry in 2006 – almost 50 percent more than in 2004 (around 160,000) and 20,000 more than previously estimated. At least 134,000 of these jobs –
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
The transition to a sustainable energy economy is one of the central challenges for the 21st century. To meet it, we must convert energy more efficiently and make greater use of renewable energy. New information and communication technologies offer diverse chances to take up these challenges. With innovative measuring techniques, embedded systems, sensor/actuator networks, and
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
The Comission on Urban Planning and the City of Kotka warmly invite you to the seminar in Kotka, Finland 3rd – 6th October 2007. The seminar is the general meeting and the second seminar in the year 2007 arranged by the Union of Baltic Cities and its Comission on Urban Planning.
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
ESA’s Member States participating in the GMES Programme approved the transition to Phase-2 of Segment 1 of the GMES Space Component Programme. Oversubscription of the programme by the ESA Council at ministerial level in 2005 was confirmed, with oversubscription to phase 2 of 116%, giving a total amount of €500 million. This additional contribution to the
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Mira Geoscience, a leading provider of solutions for the Mining Industry, will provide its clients use of 3D PDF documents to reduce uncertainty and risk when communicating complex earth models. Mira intends to provide a new pathway for viewing models using PDF3D, giving its application users enhanced and innovative workflow methods to collaborate among technical
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
CSRwire – Formal proceedings to establish the first national standard for sustainable agriculture will be launched in late October. All interested stakeholders are invited to help shape this standard under a transparent, multi-stakeholder consensus-based process governed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Read More
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
GOVERNMENT CANADA – Canada requires a next generation forest measuring and monitoring system that responds to key policy drivers related to climate change and to report upon sustainable forest development of Canada’s forest both nationally and internationally. The Canadian Forest Service, in partnership with the Canadian Space Agency, is using space-based earth observation (EO) technologies
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
iNSnet – Thousands of companies issue sustainability reports each year, but who reads them and what do they think of them? As a way to capture the preferences of readers and to alert potential new readers to the value of sustainability information, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and its partners have pioneered the first non
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
CITIZEN-TIMES – In Part 1 of this series on water management in Buncombe County, the long-term sustainability of water usage in Buncombe County was addressed. Part 2 of this series presents ideas for an integrated sustainable water strategy for Buncombe County. Read More
Saturday, September 29th, 2007
PANAPRESS – The Libyan housing projects implementation Office, signed on Tuesday contracts for the construction of 10,042 housing units in Tripoli, Morzouk and Wadi Chati. Read More
