Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Malmö, Sweden – The Sustainable City Development Conference 2007 was held recently and final conclusions of the conference have been published. With the main theme “Making sustainability attractive” the conference, Sustainable City Development 2007, was opened for the second time in Malmö with about 450 delegates from 48 different countries. Read More
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
THE INDEPENDENT – There is a “strong case” for a sustainable Severn barrage to be built – but only if it is a public project which complies with environmental laws, a report has found. The Sustainable Development Commission report revealed tidal power could supply at least 10 per cent of the UK’s electricity if fully
Monday, October 1st, 2007
Canada.com — The Harper government will unveil within weeks the details of its $33 billion plan to upgrade aging infrastructure, the federal minister responsible for transport, infrastructure and communities said Saturday. Read More
Monday, October 1st, 2007
MERI NEWS — In a country like India, where a lot of running water goes to waste, it becomes very important to apply the technology of watershed management to solve its annual problems of droughts and floods. Read More
Monday, October 1st, 2007
ALLAFRICA.com–Leading African space scientists will gather for the four-day second African Leadership Conference on Space Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in Pretoria on 2 October. Read More
Monday, October 1st, 2007
REUTERS – Although 60 percent of urban dwellers in developing nations have been crime victims in the past five years, the general fear of criminal and terrorist attack is out of proportion to actual levels of violence, the agency UN-HABITAT said in a 2007 report. This in turn prompts people and planners to focus far
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
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
