Sunday, July 25th, 2010
ARIZONA SUN – Whoever said that the states are the laboratories of democracy certainly got it right, at least when it comes to energy policy. While Washington dithers over how to hold coal-fired power plants accountable for all the CO2 they emit for free into a rapidly warming atmosphere, states like Arizona are tweaking tax
Sunday, July 25th, 2010
OANA – Iran plans to launch a remote sensing satellite in the near future, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday during a speech at a youth festival in Tehran Ahmadinejad said that Iran will send the first Iranian astronaut into space by Iranian calendar year 1398 (March 2019-March 2020). Iran originally planned to launch
Sunday, July 25th, 2010
EU – This call includes 14 topics in total, of which eight are the calls for proposals which are now open and cover €30.5 million. The remaining six calls for tender, totalling €6.5 million, will be published later. Read More
Sunday, July 25th, 2010
BBC – The potentially toxic bloom, covering 377,000 sq km, could pose a risk to marine life in the region, warn scientists. They added that a lack of wind and prolonged high temperatures had triggered the largest bloom since 2005. The affected area stretches from Finland in the north to parts of Germany and Poland
Sunday, July 25th, 2010
EO – Severe and persistent drought held southern Russia in its grip in June and July 2010. Low rainfall and hot temperatures damaged 32 percent of the country’s grain crops, said Russian Agriculture Minister, Yelena Skrynnik on July 23. This satellite vegetation index image, made from data collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)
Saturday, July 24th, 2010
NEW JERSEY STATE – For more than 20 years New Jersey Future has championed this cause, advancing state planning and the State Development and Redevelopment Plan as the best way to guide where and how New Jersey adds new residents and businesses in the future. Recent economic conditions and the continued loss of open space
Saturday, July 24th, 2010
CENTRE FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS – “If we look at the Indian scene and look at the actions being taken by state and central governments, it’s a little bit difficult to understand why it is so difficult to get strong legislation passed domestically in the United States,” said Arabinda Misrah, director of the Climate Change Division
Saturday, July 24th, 2010
SIFY – India is not meeting its infrastructure development targets and needs to rework its strategy of implementing mega projects, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here Saturday while addressing the country’s top policy forum. ‘The state of infrastructure in the country is not good enough to achieve 9-10 percent growth over a sustained basis. We
Saturday, July 24th, 2010
AME INFO – Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) has made its broadband service accessible to 92% of the Kingdom’s population, the company announced on Friday. Broadband connectivity allows users fast internet and value added services such as video telephony and mobile television. Read More
Saturday, July 24th, 2010
AVIATION WEEK – The new U.K. minister in charge of space, David Willets, says he will study the feasibility of providing Britain with an independent remote sensing capability. The remote sensing system would likely be patterned after EADS’ Paradigm’s Skynet 5 satellite telecom system, which provides secure communications to British armed forces on a private
