Month: June 2009

According to a report in the China Daily China could generate up to one fifth of its energy from renewable sources by 2020.  Zhang Xiaoqiang, vice-chairman of China’s National Development and Reform Commission, said in […]

By the end of 2007, the EU had in excess of 56,000 MW of wind generation capacity, which represented 3.7 % of total EU electricity demand.   It is estimated that this wind power generation avoided 91 million […]

The Atlas of Canada is an interesting site supported by Natural Resources Canada that contains a number of maps of Canada including a map of the protected ecological areas of Canada. Other maps include typical […]

The government of Canada has released a quarterly update on stimulus spending.  The government says that that 80 per cent of the spending has been allocated, and that this is occuring at a faster rate […]

The economic downturn, which started with a credit crisis in the world’s largest economy, has spread worldwide and created the largest economic crisis since the Great Depression.  Governments around the world are undertaking massive stimulus […]

GITA has announced its 2009 Speaker Award winners for the 2009 Geospatial Infrastructure Solutions Conference in Tampa, Fla. The award recognizes the top five percent of session speakers, each of whom were rated by session […]