Friday, October 15th, 2010
DER SPIEGEL – After years of work deep under the surface of the earth, drilling on the Gotthard Base Tunnel is set to be completed on Friday. It will be years before the first trains roll through the 57-kilometer-long tunnel, but given the difficulties workers have encountered, it is a wonder they have come this far.
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
POWER TRENDS ASIA – The Chinese government wants the Philippines to come up with an updated wind map identifying suitable areas for wind power projects in the archipelago. The Philippines is now studying the matter, Energy Secretary Jose Rene Almendras said Tuesday. For the Philippine wind map, China is willing to give a grant for
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
MSNBC – A volcanic plume of iron-laden ash from a 2008 Alaskan volcano eruption led to an unprecedentedly huge bloom of photosynthetic ocean plankton that fed off the ash, researchers have found. This natural phenomenon is much like a geoengineering scenario proposed by some researchers who want to fight global warming by spurring the growth
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
Geo2web – She’s been the the vice president of search product and user experience at the search engine company Google, per Wikipedia. That article also notes she had much to do with the design of Google Maps, Google Earth, and other products. Read More
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
Less than a year on from the release of data.gov.uk and open data sets, university offers classes around the country to those who want to do something with the data flood. Read More
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
NEW TIMES – Rwanda’s huge infrastructure gap particularly in areas of energy and transportation dampens private sector productivity and are a constraint to growth, a senior at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said.This is in addition to higher transport, water and power costs that also are a major obstacle to economic development. Read More
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
DUTCH NEWS – The legal status of the five Caribbean islands which make up the Netherlands Antilles changes from October 10, five years after the process to draw up a new relationship between the islands and the Netherlands began. In the new set up, Curacao (population 142,000) and Sint Maarten (population 37,000) become independent countries
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
CCRE – The municipality of Segonzac is the first in France to become capital of “slowness”, having adhered to the movement. Cittaslow is an international movement of “slow cities”, its symbol being a snail.Read More
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
EUROCITIES – Bologna won the CIVITAS technical innovation award for its intelligent transport system (ITS) that integrates traffic monitoring and rule enforcement. Genoa won the CIVITAS City of the Year award, which recognises the CIVITAS network member which has been most active, responsible and progressive in developing sustainable mobility measures. Read More
Monday, October 11th, 2010
IISD – The re-naming of the community list is timed in advance of the fifth meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Conference of the Parties serving as Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP 5) and the 10th meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP 10) to the CBD, which
