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BEAUMONT ENTERPRISE - The Conservancy Fund, a non-profit group, has had its eye on the former
Temple-Inland property for some time as another link in the Big
Thicket's scattered chain of nature preserves. The fund seeks to restore a 60-mile stretch of wetlands in the Neches River Basin. Read More
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WALL STREET JOURNAL -- Business and labor groups are ramping up a lobbying campaign to
persuade President-elect Barack Obama and the next Congress to back a
huge boost in infrastructure spending in an effort to create jobs and
kick-start economic growth. Read More
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REUTERS - Rainforest nations will lobby the United Nations to set up a single
body to coordinate the use of carbon credit trading to stop
deforestation at a conference next month in Poland, an official from
the countries said on Tuesday.
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DUTCH NEWS NL - The discovery of new sources of energy should be the core of Dutch
environmental policy, not just reducing consumption, according to the
new 'right-wing green' manifesto published by the Liberal party VVD on
Monday.
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SCOTTISH ENV - Construction of 11 new river monitoring stations on the rivers
Dee, Don, Deveron and North Esk are set to get underway next week
(17 November). This is part of a £1million project funded by the
Scottish Government and led by the Scottish Environment Protection
Agency (SEPA) to implement a new flood warning service for the
North East of Scotland.
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NORWAY GOVT - The Government proposes NOK 28 billion to transport and
communications via the fiscal budget for 2009 for safer, more
environment-friendly and efficient transport nationwide. This is an
increase of NOK 3.2 billion compared with 2008.
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Written by Louis Hecht
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 Similar to how investments in areas that both benefit our planet and our economy are gaining ground, the Open Geospatial Consortium is calling for key building industry players to make a relatively small investment of time and money with the potential for a huge pay-off. Working together to create a common vision and program for interoperability among their information systems will eliminate waste and increase profits.
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Written by Jeff Thurston
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 The International Symposium on Global
Navigation Satellite Systems, Space-Based Navigation and Ground-Based
Augmentation Systems and Applications was held last week in Berlin.
Bringing together representatives from around the world, the event
served to provide as a forum for learning about ongoing activity
relating to GNSS. Also included were activities and information
relating to additional positioning augmentation systems and
applications involving radio networks, communications, geodesy,
cartography and surveying.
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Written by Ignacio Zabalza, Sabina Scarpellini and Alfonso Aranda
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 Traditionally, in the building sector, local materials with low energy
costs and low environmental impact were used. Nowadays, global
materials such as cement, aluminium,concrete and PVC are used,
increasing the energy costs and environmental impact. At present, the
building sector contributes largely in the global environmental load of
human activities: for instance, around 40% of the total energy
consumption in Europe corresponds to this sector. It represents also a
major potential for improvement, and is generally addressed by most
environmental policies.
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Written by Jeff Thurston
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 Under sunny skies and with 1600
registered users in attendance, the annual ESRI EMEA User Conference
was held in London, UK last week at the Queen Elizabeth Convention
Centre under the theme 'GIS for everyday life'. Richard Waite,
president of ESRI (UK) opened the show welcoming guests from across
the globe. He said that this gathering was the largest European GIS
conference by number in attendance as well as the largest in the
country - “GIS is an indespensible part of life.”
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Written by Andrew Richman and Jürgen Boghdan
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 New technologies are enabling environmental planners to collaborate and communicate in more effective ways. The Virtual Environmental Planning Project is a EU programme Interreg IIIB NWE and Department for Communities and Local Government (UK) effort that was completed in 2008. The project resulted in technologies that support public participation in the planning consultation process through the use of a 3D application.
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Written by Matt Ball
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 Xcel Energy is undertaking an aggressive SmartGridCity project in Boulder, Colo. The plan is to install smart meters and high-speed communications throughout the city, creating the first large-scale deployment of this cutting-edge technology in the United States. This initiative is well underway now, with more than 82 miles of fiber optic cable installed, and more than 13,000 homes set to be operational by the end of this year.
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Written by Matt Ball
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 It’s a daunting task to synthesize and analyze global knowledge regarding the health of the environment. The United Nations Environment Program’s World Conservation Monitoring Center (UNEP-WCMC) in Cambridge, United Kingdom, has a dedicated staff of more than 60 people that work to bring together data on global biodiversity and conservation to guide policy. A primary data product of UNEP-WCMC is the World Database of Protected Areas.V1 editor Matt Ball spoke with Derek Gliddon, head of the Informatics Program at UNEP-WCMC about the goals and challenges of the organization.
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