Sunday, September 16th, 2007
BBC NEWS – The most direct shipping route from Europe to Asia is fully clear of ice for the first time since records began, the European Space Agency (Esa) says. Historically, the Northwest Passage linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans has been ice-bound through the year. Read More
Saturday, September 15th, 2007
UK GOVERNMENT – The latest edition of Sustainable development indicators in your pocket has been published, giving an updated picture of the UK’s environmental, social and economic wellbeing. For the first time the booklet includes some measures of personal wellbeing in the population. Read More
Saturday, September 15th, 2007
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY IRELAND – Large Irish companies engaged in Sustainable Energy Ireland’s (SEI’s) energy management programmes have recorded energy cost savings of over €40 million during the past year, representing a saving of 4% of their combined energy costs achieved in a single year. Read More
Friday, September 14th, 2007
THE TIMES – In a country that is mostly desert, Libya wants to preserve a rare verdant region with archaeological treasures from the ravages of looting and encroaching urbanisation. To meet that ambitious goal the north African country has launched the world’s first large-scale conservation and sustainable development project in the mountainous region of Djebal
Friday, September 14th, 2007
ANSA – The national plan will aim to protect the landscape and coastline from the effects of erosion, adapt the tourist industry to face the changing scenario and find the most efficient use of water resources, according to a climate change manifesto produced at the conference. Read More
Friday, September 14th, 2007
The European Commission has today authorised Ireland to pay national aid worth more than € 900 million over the period 2007 to 2013 to encourage afforestation. Ireland has the second lowest rate of forest cover in the European Union, at just 10% of the country’s total land area. The primary objective is to bring the
Thursday, September 13th, 2007
NEWLANDS, UK – Launched in the summer of 2003, Newlands is a unique £59 million scheme that is reclaiming large areas of brownfield land across England’s Northwest; responding to local and regional economic and social needs by transforming sites into thriving, durable, community woodlands. Read More
Thursday, September 13th, 2007
THE ECONOMIC TIMES – India’s Suzlon Energy, the world’s fourth-largest wind turbine maker, plans to invest about $1.4 billion to almost triple its production capacity by 2009, allowing it to expand at twice the pace of the rapidly growing industry. Read More
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
TIMES OF MALTA – The master plan and model of SmartCity Malta were unveiled by Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi in the presence of senior Tecom Investments executives at the Gitex Technology Fair in Dubai yesterday. Read More
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
BUSINESS REPORT – After decades of putting up and tearing down hundreds of thousands of cheap identikit homes, Britain is planning a new wave of housebuilding with a major challenge: to produce communities that last. Read More
