Sunday, September 9th, 2007
Hemisphere GPS introduced Outback S-Lite(TM) from the Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Illinois. As the entry-level product of its popular Outback brand, S-Lite is a low-cost, portable, entry-level GPS guidance solution for non-precision spraying, spreading, and broad-acre tillage and seeding. Offering many of the same features as its popular Outback S(TM) series products, Outback S-Lite
Sunday, September 9th, 2007
John Deere is demonstrating how a fully mechanized harvesting system can economically remove merchantable trees and biomass while adhering to environmentally sound harvesting practices. Read More
Sunday, September 9th, 2007
Energy for Sustainable Development Current demographic, economic, social, and technological trends – if not counterbalanced by strong new government policies – pose major challenges to the long-term sustainability of the global energy system. If governments do not implement policies beyond those already planned between now and 2030, it is projected that: • energy consumption will
Sunday, September 9th, 2007
ICENEWS – On September 11th the President of Iceland will be in Leeds, UK, in order to open Innovate Logistic’s newest office building. A spokesperson from Innovate says that the building received the highest environmental score from the Building Research Establishment (BRE) of any building in the UK. The opening will be attended by both
Sunday, September 9th, 2007
Effect of Ground Changes on the Reference Benchmarks in a Levelling Network of a Large City In the paper changes of reference benchmarks heights in levelling networks of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd order, during the 1968-1998 period, have been presented on the example of Wrocław. Preliminary interpretation has shown that they are closely correlated
Sunday, September 9th, 2007
Central European Land Fragmentation in the Years to Come Central European agriculture suffers from extreme fragmentation of land ownership. Land consolidation may be a solution, provided that specific regional conditions are considered. Current regional conditions are the subject of several studies, but do lack the time-dimension. Download (2002) (14 pages; 85 KB PDF)
Sunday, September 9th, 2007
22nd PHOTOVOLTAIC CONFERENCE – The world´s largest photovoltaic congress has started in Milan. It was officially opened by Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio, Italian Minister for the Environment, Land and Sea. “The Italian government is working hard, together with the European Union, in order to enhance the energy production using renewable sources and particularly the sun. Read More
Sunday, September 9th, 2007
DWELL DAILY – Bochniak is one of thousands in L.A. who are now buying condos in multifamily complexes instead of single-family homes, and contributing, sale by sale, to a major change in the urban form and identity of Los Angeles—from sprawling and horizontal to higher and denser. Read More
Sunday, September 9th, 2007
BBC NEWS – Thousands of homes could be spared flooding misery if a more sustainable approach to the problem is taken, nature campaigners have said. Read More
Sunday, September 9th, 2007
Oracle has agreed to acquire Netsure Telecom Limited, a leading provider of network intelligence, analytics and network data integrity software. Netsure provides communications service providers critical network intelligence and analytics software, which is vital to ensuring efficient operation and utilization of existing and next-generation networks and services. Read More
