Friday, June 4th, 2010
Many NGOs and development practitioners are hoping to increase their knowledge of project design and development in order to work successfully with community members in developing successful, sustainable forest conservation and restoration projects. In an effort to make our impact training courses internationally accessible, we have launched key courses inexpensively online on project design, adapting
Friday, June 4th, 2010
Tactical Communications, provider of leading technology and services for emergency and disaster communications, today announced an agreement to distribute Surveylab’s Ike1000 series of geospatial field data collection tools in Texas. Texas-based municipal and federal public safety agencies are leveraging emerging GPS and GIS technologies to help measure, monitor, and manage their assets. “The advent of
Friday, June 4th, 2010
Under the African Monitoring of the Environment for Sustainable Development (AMESD) programme, three grants were recently signed between the African Union Commission and the three Regional Implementation Centres (RICs) to implement services in support of the management of water, agricultural and environmental resources as well as land degradation and desertification mitigation, and natural habitat conservation.
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
The number of native fish and aquatic insects, especially those that are pollution sensitive, declines in urban and suburban streams at low levels of development — levels often considered protective for stream communities, according to a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey. The USGS study examinee the effects of urbanization on algae, aquatic insects,
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Alberta’s greenhouse gas reduction program continues to support a global clean energy future with 2009 emissions reductions being the equivalent of removing 1.4 million cars off the road and a clean technology innovation fund growing to $187 million. The 2009 results saw industrial emissions reduced by seven million tonnes from business-as-usual (emissions that would have
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
How do you account for carbon stored outside forests? Want to hear about experiences and challenges from case studies in Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia? The World Agroforestry Centre invites you to a side event on Monday 7 June during the UNFCCC Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice 32nd session (SBSTA 32) in
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Detailed marine mapping from SeaZone is helping Forewind Ltd plan and deliver its offshore wind energy project in the North Sea. Using HydroSpatial, SeaZone’s digital marine map, Forewind will undertake a comprehensive assessment of the maritime area to help identify potential sites for offshore wind development after successfully winning the exclusive zone development agreement for
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
RapidEye, the only geospatial solutions provider to own and operate a constellation of five identical Earth Observation satellites, announced today that Panaxx Corporation will be its distributor in Japan. Panaxx is the fourteenth company to join RapidEye’s quickly- growing worldwide distribution network. Learn More
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
HP today announced that Ingenieurgruppe Flösser GmbH is using its HP Designjet 4520 HD-MFP to deliver highly accurate printouts of architectural plans, to visualise and analyse its customers’ architectural designs. Based in Bad Säckingen, Germany, architectural engineering specialist, Ingenieurgruppe Flösser GmbH, is employed to assist customers with structural calculations during a building’s design process, to
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
To meet the growing need of people for increasing farm income and to minimize the negative environmental impact of today’s farm practices, a new farming concept has been evolved where inputs are fine tuned and optimized according to the local field variability such that yield increment is achieved with a minimum harm to the local
