The Quebec Environment Minister has announced that shale gas development in Quebec has been put on hold until a full environmental study can be done on fracking. A Bureau d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement (BAPE) […]
If you are interested in new technological approaches for the challenges facing the utility, municipal government, and other industries, such as smart design, integrated substation design, records management, reducing truck rolls with high resolution imagery, […]
I’ve blogged in the past about cities making their raw geospatial available to citizens, beginning with Vancouver. Adam R. Jonasson GIS Coordinator City of Grand Forks, ND has released an Open Data Warehouse (ODW). This […]
There are several Moose motivated cities and towns in Canada, Moosonee, Moose Factory, and so on. But the largest is Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Bret Rowlinson, GIS Supervisor, at the City of Moose Jaw has prepared […]
I blogged last week about a few of the largest water diversion projects in the world. The blog post was motivated by the in-depth article Circle of Blue published about the South-to-North project in China. […]
Circle of Blue has just published an in-depth article about the South-to-North Water Diversion Project (SNWT) in China. The SNWT is a $64-billion, 50-year effort to divert water from river basins in southern China to […]
At TED 2011, Autodesk released a new book Imagine, Design, Create that looks into the innovative thinking in a wide range of companies and designers. The book includes interviews with industry innovators using novel design […]
The Chinese National People’s Congress begins meeting tomorrow to pass the 12th five year plan. One of the policy items that is a priority for the five year plan is new energy efficiency and pollution […]