(This title borrows from Tomlinson’s book of the same name, as well as a new book by Donald Savoie ‘ Whatever happened to the music teacher’). It is fifty years since Roger Tomlinson used the […]
Last night Carl Steinitz, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard, gave two presentations. The first addressed the queston of how to organize education in geosdesign and was […]
I have blogged on many occasions about pathological business processes for designing, building and operating and maintaining infrastructure that plague many utilities. Some of these processes don’t seem to have changed since Edison and Tesla’s […]
In its essence smart grid is about turning the power grid into an internet of intelligent devices. That means that the next generation power grid will be susceptible to all the cybersecurity issues that affect […]
I have blogged before about the use of social media by utilties to communicate with the public. Colorado Springs Utilties used Facebook during the Colorado forest fires to keep people apprised of the status of […]
In previous postings on GoGeomatics Canada (GIS in the School System & GIS Partnerships Between the Community and the Education System) I recounted my past experiences with recognizing the essential inclusion of using GPS and […]
The Utilities Standards Forum (USF) is an organization representing about 50 Ontario electricity distribution companies. Its goal is collaboratively to define standards for its members to reduce duplication of effort. The USF has developed design […]
At the EDIST 2013 Conference in Toronto today, Cory Slinger of Horizon Utilities provided an update on Horizon’s energy mapping for conservation and demand management (CDM). I have blogged about Horizon’s energy density mapping initiative […]