More than half of the buildings that will be standing in the year 2030 are already built, and the urgency to improve the efficiency of existing buildings as a means to reduce energy use and […]
It has been reported that an employee of Dell has gotten Chrome OS, which Google released to open source Nov 19, to run on a Dell Mini 10v netbook. I blogged earlier that Ed Parsons […]
The UK Government has announced its intention to explore ways of making all Ordnance Survey maps freely available online from April. The Free Our Data campaign has worked for over three years to convince the […]
Autodesk University happens next week in Las Vegas. Here’s some of the utility related events. Monday, November 30 12:00 pm – 01:00 pm Utility Symposium Lunch – [South Pacific C – Mandalay Bay] 01:00 pm […]
According to the Ordnance Survey, OS OpenSpace is intended to promote free and open access to Ordnance Survey data (which is in general relatively expensive) via the OS OpenSpace API to application developers. This means […]
I’ve attached an interesting graph that shows that China has passed the US in emissions, no mean feat, but China has 1.3 billion people contributing compared to the US’s 300 million. UK PM Gordon Brown […]
The Clean Water Act of 1972 was to intended to upgrade the US’s sewer systems. In the 1970s and 1980s, Congress distributed more than $60 billion to cities to upgrade sewer systems. In 1994 the […]
Ed Parsons reports that he has Chrome OS running on his Aspire One, “deadly fast” he says.