Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
Sutton Council is appealing to residents to help meet targets for their environmental project. Through One Planet Sutton, bold steps are being taken to make the borough more sustainable and to preserve it for future generations. The council is now urging residents to help renew their pledge and create a truly sustainable borough. Three planets
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
While utilities do have a learning curve to climb about data management and analytics, end users (residential, commercial, and industrial customers) also need to learn the ramifications of the creation and use of entirely new data about them. This new data will be valuable to consumers, energy service providers, and a myriad of third parties.
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
This presentation covers high level design tips for building Mashup Websites, presented to surveyors, business people and other members from the Australian Surveying and Spatial Science Institute. It profiles readers and how they interact with web pages, the technical strengths and weaknesses of mashup technologies, which leads into defining best practice for building mashup websites.
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
A public exhibition is being held from 3 May to 19 June 2011 at the Sjömanshemmet in central Stockholm to mark the final stage of the public consultation process for the redevelopment of Slussen. The exhibition showcases the masterplan to transform this central Stockholm area into one of the city’s most dynamic civic destinations. Foster +
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
This evaluation is part of the first phase of a real-time evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI). As such, it is a major undertaking and the first of its kind for the Evaluation Department. The evaluation is conducted by a team of independent evaluators from the British company LTS International in collaboration
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
There are five critical navigation spots in the Bulgarian section of the Danube River resulting from its drastically low level, according to the state authorities. The level of the Danube at the city of Ruse is only 189 cm, and is expected to decline by 20 more cm in the next two days, announced Georgi Georgiev, head of the Executive Agency for Exploration and Maintenance
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
The high-speed express train Allegro that has been operating between Helsinki and St. Petersburg since December is attracting a lot of passengers. In February-March, the number of people travelling on the route was 40 per cent higher than that in the corresponding period last year, and in April, passenger numbers on the line have continued to be high.
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
A government thinktank has predicted that the British marine energysector could be worth £76bn to the economy and support 68,000 jobs by 2050. The analysis, released this week by the Carbon Trust, comes only weeks after coalition ministers ended the industry’s subsidy programme. Britain could capture almost a quarter of the global wave and tidal power market if
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
The payments, worth up to 20 times the value of the power they would have produced, raises serious concerns about such subsidies, which are paid for by the customer. The six Scottish wind farms were asked to stop producing electricity on a particularly windy night last month as the National Grid was overloaded. Their transition cables do
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
Fraud risks destabilizing the world’s effort to tackle climate change according to a huge 360-page report published by Transparency International in Bangladesh on Saturday. The “Global Corruption Report: Climate Change,” with contributions from some 50 authors from around the world, says corruption poses a special risk to the billions of dollars needed to respond to
