Monday, September 17th, 2007
ABC NEWS – Tasmania’s farmers are pushing for $120m. of Federal funding to improve water supplies around the State. The Farmers and Graziers Association has announced a plan to seek a share of the Commonwealth’s $10b. water fund. Irrigators, dairy farmers and representatives from Hyro Tasmania and the Water Department have gathered on a farm
Sunday, September 16th, 2007
SCHILLER INSTITUTE – When the Comecon and the Soviet Union began to disintegrate in 1989-91, Lyndon LaRouche and the Schiller Institute proposed an economic reconstruction plan, first for Europe, and then for Eurasia. In 1989, we put forward the program for the so-called “Productive Triangle: Paris-Berlin-Vienna,” and in 1991, the program for the infrastructural and
Sunday, September 16th, 2007
CNN Money – India’s air express carrier and logistics-services provider Blue Dart Express Ltd said it will invest 10 bln rupees to ramp up infrastructure, with the aim of becoming market leader in the express industry over the next five years. Read More
Sunday, September 16th, 2007
GERMAN GOVERNMENT – As reported by the Federal Statistical Office, from January to June 2007, the German railway companies together transported 180.1 million tonnes of goods. This was 10.4 million tonnes of goods more (+6.1%) than in the corresponding period of the previous year. Read More
Sunday, September 16th, 2007
BBC NEWS – The most direct shipping route from Europe to Asia is fully clear of ice for the first time since records began, the European Space Agency (Esa) says. Historically, the Northwest Passage linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans has been ice-bound through the year. Read More
Saturday, September 15th, 2007
UK GOVERNMENT – The latest edition of Sustainable development indicators in your pocket has been published, giving an updated picture of the UK’s environmental, social and economic wellbeing. For the first time the booklet includes some measures of personal wellbeing in the population. Read More
Saturday, September 15th, 2007
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY IRELAND – Large Irish companies engaged in Sustainable Energy Ireland’s (SEI’s) energy management programmes have recorded energy cost savings of over €40 million during the past year, representing a saving of 4% of their combined energy costs achieved in a single year. Read More
Friday, September 14th, 2007
THE TIMES – In a country that is mostly desert, Libya wants to preserve a rare verdant region with archaeological treasures from the ravages of looting and encroaching urbanisation. To meet that ambitious goal the north African country has launched the world’s first large-scale conservation and sustainable development project in the mountainous region of Djebal
Friday, September 14th, 2007
ANSA – The national plan will aim to protect the landscape and coastline from the effects of erosion, adapt the tourist industry to face the changing scenario and find the most efficient use of water resources, according to a climate change manifesto produced at the conference. Read More
Friday, September 14th, 2007
The European Commission has today authorised Ireland to pay national aid worth more than € 900 million over the period 2007 to 2013 to encourage afforestation. Ireland has the second lowest rate of forest cover in the European Union, at just 10% of the country’s total land area. The primary objective is to bring the
