Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
Japan’s Toshiba Corporation has offered Bulgaria a large-scale project in the field of renewable energy, “smart electricity grids” and electric cars. As part of a visit of a large Bulgarian government and business delegation in Japan led by PM Borisov, Bulgarian Minister of Economy, Energy, and Tourism Traicho Traikov met with Norio Sasaki, President and
Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
Together, Starpath School of Navigation and Quark Expeditions will provide amateur and advanced sailors alike a unique opportunity to transit the Holy Grail of Arctic exploration while earning certification in several areas of navigation. Starpath has trained passionate sailors in all phases of marine navigation and weather since 1978. Quark, a polar expedition specialist founded
Monday, January 24th, 2011
Officials said the elevated expressway would link Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International airport in the north of the capital to Kutubkhali point in the southeast to connect a highway leading to the southeastern port city of Chittagong. Read More
Monday, January 24th, 2011
UK Government cuts mean some planned flood and coastal defences will not go ahead. But no one wants to tell me which ones. Can you help plug the information gap? Once more unto the breach, dear friends, that is the government’s cuts to flood and coastal defence spending. I need your help to reveal the impact
Monday, January 24th, 2011
Hamidou Jallow, principal lands surveyor at the Department of Lands and Survey has been summoned by the Lands Commission to clear doubts about the state of files containing list of leased lands and their detailed contacts from the year 2005 to date. Read More
Monday, January 24th, 2011
The goal of the “InnovationCity Ruhr” project isn’t to create a model green city from scratch. Its agenda is perhaps even more ambitious: It aims to take an existing city – with all of its industrial facilities, green spaces, swathes of fallow land and neighborhoods both old and new – and reshape it along more sustainable lines.
Friday, January 21st, 2011
A programme organised by HCM City’s Environmental Protection Agency saw around 1.25 million people joining various community-based environmental protection activities and several hundred thousands more increasing their environmental awareness in the last five years. “Environmental protection has become a duty of everybody,” Nguyen Van Hong, deputy director of the city Department of Natural Resources and
Friday, January 21st, 2011
Up to 5,000 jobs could be created in Whitby and district after plans were revealed to open the first UK Potash mine in 40 years. Mineral rights between Whitby and Scarborough were sold on Sunday to Sirius Minerals, which specialises in potash exploration and development and has three potash projects already in Australia and the USA.
Friday, January 21st, 2011
The Duke of York spoke of the benefits of engineers and academics working closely together as he officially opened Strathclyde University’s new multi-million-pound research centre that will develop cutting-edge techniques for the aerospace industry. Based at Inchinnan in Renfrewshire, the Advance Forming Research Centre is a collaboration between the university, Scottish Enterprise and engineering companies.
Thursday, January 20th, 2011
This year Learning with GI is focused on “Implementing Digital Earth in education”. The digital earth vision has become reality in terms of technology, allowing for a multiplicity of applications in education and communication. Education should therefore provide reasonable opportunities to acquire competences that students can use to effectively participate in GISociety. We invite you
