According to the World Factbook, if California were an independent nation, in 2007 it would have had the World’s tenth largest economy. It is important not only from a national but also from an international […]
According to a Dutch study, Australia, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Nordic countries, South Korea, United Kingdom, Ireland, and United States are responsible for 65% of worldwide fossil fuel-fired power generation. The average efficiencies of […]
The GDAL/OGR Project has announced the release of GDAL/OGR 1.7.0, which is the first major release since 1.6.0 about a year ago. There’s quite an extensive list of new raster and vector drivers as well […]
In my last blog post I mentioned that the US has no no explicit federal policy to reduce green house gas (GHG) emissions like the EU’s objective that 20 percent of energy should be produced […]
According to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), 2009 would have been an economically disastrous year without federal stimulus funding. The AWEA had expected wind-power development to drop 50% in 2009, but about $2.2 billion […]
The Alias Sketch for AutoCAD Technology Preview integrates Alias Sketchbook Pro functionality into AutoCAD and allows you to integrate painting, illustration and image manipulation into AutoCAD design. It supports Freehand drawing techniques Create blank screen […]
Governor Schwarzenegger has announced that the California Building Standards Commission has approved the first-in-the-nation statewide mandatory Green Building Standards Code (CALGREEN) requiring all new buildings in the state to be more energy efficient and environmentally […]
The first major release of GeoREST has been announced by Jason Birch and Haris Kurtagic. GeoREST is a new open source RESTful framework that works with existing open source libraries such as MapGuide and FDO […]