Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
Because the Train of Ideas, a free, interactive travelling exhibition, is visiting the “França” station to present its vision for cities of the future. Barcelona is one of the cities featuring in this exhibition, aimed at the general public, which will allow visitors to discover in detail what the sustainable cities of the future will
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
Panels of experts assessing scientific investigations tend to be messy affairs, particularly when their customers are governments. People with expertise in one field, such as renewable energy, may have a bias towards it. Summaries of their work are the result of political negotiations. And findings are further boiled down in an attempt to win media
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending PLN 254.2 million (some EUR 65 million) to re-develop the post-industrial city centre of Katowice, particularly the cultural district. The EIB loan will help to increase the attractiveness and strengthen the competitiveness of this industrial centre of the Silesia Region located in the South of Poland with a
Monday, June 27th, 2011
After two years of planning, now the first spacecraft built without astronauts aboard the European Space Agency ESA will start the construction. The signature manifests the definitive step towards the realization has been paid here to the aerospace exhibition in Paris, the most important international exhibition industry, which for a century on the outskirts of Paris
Monday, June 27th, 2011
Public interest in climate issues has dropped to its lowest point in five years, according to the upcoming annual SOM report from the University of Gothenburg. Only 14 percent of Swedes currently consider the environment to be among our most important problems, reports daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. This is the lowest figure since 2006, and
Monday, June 27th, 2011
Poland opposes European Commission plans to cut CO2 emissions as such proposals are likely to drive up energy prices, EU Affairs Minister Mikolaj Dowgielewicz told Polish news agency PAP.Polish Economy Minister Waldemar Pawlak told a press conference that the plans posed a danger to the EU economy as a whole, including the heavily coal-dependent Polish
Monday, June 27th, 2011
The company, called Pythagoras Solar, is one of five firms to win an Innovation Award from the program’s “Powering Your Home” challenge, in which GE invested $63 million this round and also provided sizeable awards to 10 commercial partners in addition to the smaller firms. Currently in its second year, the challenge has now provided
Monday, June 27th, 2011
Britain's biggest array of solar panels has begun generating in Oxfordshire. The first large ground system to feed into the national grid will benefit from the tariff scheme paying a premium for supplying clean electricity. Howbery business park's companies specialise in engineering, environmental and water research and development and its 3,000-panel array generates up to
Sunday, June 26th, 2011
Evgeny Kaspersky is one of Russia’s top Internet virus hunters and IT entrepreneurs. In a SPIEGEL interview, he discusses a raft of recent hacker attacks on multinationals, the “total professionals” behind the Stuxnet virus and his fear of both personal and widespread cyber violence. Read More
Sunday, June 26th, 2011
Google and the various websites it owns were used by more than a billion people for the first time in May. The landmark figure, revealed in new data from ComScore, shows an 8.4pc rise year on year. Microsoft remained the second most popular destination with 905 million unique visitors in May. This was up approximately
