200 Muslim leaders, scholars, civil society members and government ministries from Kuwait, Bahrain, Morocco, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Senegal, and Turkey have endorsed a seven year plan for action on protecting the natural environment […]
In preparation for the UN Climate Change Summit in Copenhapen in December the Australian government has proposed a modified plan (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme) to reduce Australia’s CO2 emissions by up to 25 % (higher than […]
After the summer Autodesk Labs will be launching “plugin of the month from the Autodesk Developer Network.” The plugins will be simple utility applications and will include full source code. Some examples of plugins that […]
I am in Brazil this week in São Paulo, where I just gave a presentation at the Geo Summit Latin America, which used to be known as GeoBrasil. I have been coming to Brazil for many years […]
Daniel Shannon made me aware of the Drake Landing Solar Community, a 52 house subdivision that is the largest subdivision of R-2000 single family homes in Canada. It intends to meet 90% of residential space heating […]
Autodesk is now officially supporting AutoCAD 2010 on Mac OSX via Apple Boot Camp. Also supported on Boot Camp are 3ds Max 2010, 3ds Max Design 2010, Autodesk Inventor 2010, and Autodesk Revit Architecture, Structure, and MEP 2010. […]
There’s an interesting article about IBM’s remarkable second quarter results (reporting a 12% rise in net income and raising full year earnings guidance) that attributes part of the upbeat results to government spending where IBM reported […]
I mentioned in my last blog that one of fhe important concerns with renewables such as wind and solar is that in most parts of the world the existing electric power grid was designed for […]