Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
CALGARY HERALD – The multi-modal strategy, to be delivered to government by December, will have a profound impact on the province’s economic growth and competitiveness in the coming decades, policy observers noted. It will be particularly important for the Calgary, Red Deer and Edmonton regions, which are expected to be home to about 77 per
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
JRC – Available Thematic Data Layers for Commission Decision of on guidelines for the calculation of land carbon stocks for the purpose of Annex V to Directive 2009/28/EC. The Climatic Zone layer is defined based on the classification of IPCC (IPCC, 2006). The zones are defined by a set of rules based
Monday, July 5th, 2010
NATIONAL UAE – Desertec, a plan to help power Europe with sunlight, starts with a simple idea: put solar energy plants around the Sahara and Middle East. The rest is complicated.Two weeks ago, the EU energy commissioner Gunther Oettinger met North African officials in Algiers to discuss integrating electricity markets. Mr Oettinger told Reuters electricity
Monday, July 5th, 2010
JORNAL DE BRASIL – Planning and appropriate preventive care, such as a flood warning system could have helped prevent deaths due to rains in Alagoas. According to researcher Jose Maria Brollo, director of the Center for Environmental and Engineering Geology of the Geological Institute (IG), linked to the Department of Environment of São Paulo, Brazil hasknowledge
Monday, July 5th, 2010
TIMES OF MALTA – Architects and planners recently discussed the pros and cons of structural and spatial planning systems. With reform in the air, this looks like a good time to make the leap to a new planning system. Ongoing reform of the Malta Environment and Planning Authority (Mepa) is peppered with lively discussions over
Monday, July 5th, 2010
OBSERVER UK – Terreform One, a New York non-profit design group led by 38-year-old architect Mitchell Joachim, offers answers to almost everything to do with cities and sustainability. Its prolific output of ideas includes blimps creeping nose-to-tail around cities, with seats hanging off them just above the ground so that people can jump on and
Monday, July 5th, 2010
INDEPENDENT UK – Charging motorists for each mile they travel is “inevitable” if future traffic gridlock is to be avoided, a report from the RAC Foundation said today. A “pay-as-you-go” system could be the answer to congestion, said the report from the foundation’s director Professor Stephen Glaister. What was needed was a fundamental shift
Sunday, July 4th, 2010
OPTI-CAL SURVEY – A world authority in technical environmental construction and surveying has been appointed the eleventh chairman of the Construction Industry Council (CIC).Gordon Masterson OBE has taken on the role from former chairman, Keith Clarke. He brings to the position a wealth of practical industry knowledge, gained from his extensive career which currently sees
Sunday, July 4th, 2010
NORWAY POST – In the period leading up to 2020, Norway’s Statnett is planning to establish four new cable connections between Norway and continental Europe, with a total capacity of up to 4200 MW. The projects will be self-financed, and profits will help reduce grid tariffs for Norwegian households. Read More
Sunday, July 4th, 2010
GFZ POTSDAM – Inkaba yeAfrica is a German-South African collaborative Earth Science initiative that is both multidisciplinary and intercultural, dovetailing next-generation science and technology with a strong training and capacity-building component that is aligned with the R&D strategies of both nations. Three teams of earth scientists from leading institutes in both countries are taking on
