Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
OLDHAM CHRONICLE – A new colour map of the Greater Manchester rail network, similar to the world-famous London Underground map, has been launched. cartographers at the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive (GMPTE) have designed a map of the county’s train routes to make it easier for people to explore different areas by rail. Read More
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Fifty years ago, a bleeping aluminium sphere the size of a basketball became the first man-made object to orbit the Earth. The launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1 took the world by surprise and ushered in the space age. Read More
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese scientists have completed a series of maps providing both general and detailed information on the natural environment of Vietnamese coastal areas. Dr. Bui Cong Que at the Institute of Geophysics said that 70 maps were created using the latest Geographic Information System (GIS). Read More
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
BBC – The government has pledged almost half a million pounds to compensate rural communities affected by quarrying. Eight historical monuments that lie near quarries across England are to be repaired to lessen the environmental impact of mining sand, gravel or stone. Read More
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
INQUIRER.NET — Silicon Valley’s capital city San Jose is undergoing an urban development revolution calculated to keep it as the thriving heart of a region renowned for technological innovation. Read More
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
BALTIMORE SUN — It’s nearly impossible to tell how effective Maryland’s 10-year-old Smart Growth law has been at curbing sprawl because state agencies haven’t kept track of where their spending goes, as the law requires, a new study finds. Read More
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Malmö, Sweden – The Sustainable City Development Conference 2007 was held recently and final conclusions of the conference have been published. With the main theme “Making sustainability attractive” the conference, Sustainable City Development 2007, was opened for the second time in Malmö with about 450 delegates from 48 different countries. Read More
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
THE INDEPENDENT – There is a “strong case” for a sustainable Severn barrage to be built – but only if it is a public project which complies with environmental laws, a report has found. The Sustainable Development Commission report revealed tidal power could supply at least 10 per cent of the UK’s electricity if fully
Monday, October 1st, 2007
Canada.com — The Harper government will unveil within weeks the details of its $33 billion plan to upgrade aging infrastructure, the federal minister responsible for transport, infrastructure and communities said Saturday. Read More
Monday, October 1st, 2007
MERI NEWS — In a country like India, where a lot of running water goes to waste, it becomes very important to apply the technology of watershed management to solve its annual problems of droughts and floods. Read More
