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TIMES ONLINE - Heerlen, in the southern province of Limburg, has created the first geothermal
power station in the world using water heated naturally in the deep shafts
of old coalmines — which once provided the southern Netherlands with
thousands of jobs but have been dormant since the 1970s.
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KRAKOW POST - Hip design magazine Wallpaper turned its attention to Poland in
its September issue. Whilst enthusing about the country as a dynamic
place for new development, the monthly was less effusive about
home-grown architects.
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DER SPIEGEL - In a key vote on Tuesday, the European Parliament's environment
committee affirmed plans for an emissions trading system. Brussels'
only elected body says utility companies who pollute with coal should
pay the full price for certificates, but gives other industries a break
as recession approaches.
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NEW YORK TIMES -- For years, while Washington slept, most of the serious work on climate
change has occurred in the states, and no state has worked harder than
California. The latest example of California’s originality is a new law
intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by
curbing urban sprawl and cutting back the time people spend in
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TREND NEWS - A total of 13 candidates were registered for eight vacancies at the
State Service for Registration of Real Estate and 20 candidates for 18
v acancies at the Ministry of Economic Development. No candidate was registered for the State Committee for land and
cartography and the State Sea Administration, which participated with one
vacancy.
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THE INDEPENDENT - Firms have made over £1bn worth of energy savings in the past year as
environmental issues have risen up the business agenda, according to a new
report today. A survey of more than 3,000 companies by the British Chambers of Commerce
showed that most used energy efficient products and recycled equipment.
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Written by Matt Ball
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 Peter Raven, noted botanist, environmentalist and president of the
Missouri Botanical Garden, gave the keynote speech at this year’s ESRI
International User Conference. Raven’s talk centered on the need for
biodiversity and species preservation, and he praised the GIS toolset
for contributing greatly in these causes. V1 Editor Matt Ball spoke
with Raven following his talk on subjects ranging from population pressures, to
species extinction, to the role of GIS to speed our understanding of
nature.
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Written by Jason Sims
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 Unknown to the non-agricultural sector, farms are businesses too, and need to be as efficient as possible. Along with soaring oil prices, farmers have also had to contend with soaring fertilizer prices – as well as fierce competition from overseas providers. Farmers in first-world countries have turned to high-tech precision agriculture to increase efficiency of production, as well as output yields.
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Written by Matt Ball
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 Intergraph has been developing industry-specific solutions on top of its core geospatial platform for some time now, and the benefits of that focus are translating into strong company performance. V1 Magazine editor Matt Ball sat down with Mark Doherty, Executive Director, Technology Architecture and Strategy, for Intergraph’s Security, Government & Infrastructure (SG&I) division, at the Intergraph User’s Conference in Las Vegas to discuss the solutions approach and the plans for the underlying platform.
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Written by Erin Rae Hoffer and Terry D. Bennett
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 In our last installment on “Sustainable Urban Environments”, we
discussed challenges and opportunities which the AEC industry will face
in order to create sustainable urban environments amid aging
infrastructure, with a workforce constrained by demographic and skill
shifts, and in response to client pressure for highly productive and
cost-effective results. Next we look at emerging opportunities for
change and consider how communities and practitioners can leverage past
and present design approaches to increase sustainability of our
buildings and infrastructure.
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Written by Jeff Thurston
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 Josef Strobl has been directly involved in the Applied Geographic Information Technology (AGIT) symposium and the UNIGIS International program at the Zentrum for Geoinformatik at Salzburg University, Austria for many years. He is also an active researcher and teaches GIS, spatial analysis, remote sensing, modelling and applied simulation. V1 Magazine editor Jeff Thurston recently had the opportunity to interview him on the topics of AGIT, UNIGIS, Energy / GIS and the new Digital Cities initiative emerging from the Salzburg University program.
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Written by Paul F Downton
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 A definition for the purpose of cities is long overdue. To address urgent concerns for sustainability and the health of humans and the biosphere, the purpose of the city must be to generate health and enhance sustainability. This is a major historical shift, but the city has the power and reach to achieve it, as Ian Douglas observed in 1983 “The urban eco-system is the most elaborate geographical control-system or integrated resource-management system in human experience.”
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Written by Matt Ball
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 The 2008 ESRI International User Conference took place in San Diego, Calif., from August 4-8. This ever-growing event attracted close to 15,000 people this year, with the theme, "GIS: Geography in Action". Sustainability was a strong theme in the plenary session as well as throughout the conference program.
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