Canada signed the Copenhagen Accord in December 2009 and committed to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 612 Mt or 17 percent below 2005 levels (737 Mt) by 2020. Canada’s total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions […]
In light of President Obama’s recent Executive Order on cybersecurity for critical infrastructure, security has become even more critical and most utility folks realize that utiltiies need to get very serious about it. The Cooperative […]
Energy labeling for buildings In the U.K. since 2008 public buildings over 1,000 m2 must display a Display Energy Certificate (DEC). DECs document the actual energy usage of a building and look similar to the […]
The Quarterly Update of Australia’s National Greenhouse Gas Inventory for March Quarter 2013 has been released by Dept of the Environment. Annual emissions for the year to March 2013 are estimated to be 557.0 Mt […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released annual greenhouse gas emissions data for 2012 collected under the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP). The program collects annual greenhouse gas information (CO2, CH4, N2O, SF6, NF3, […]
When I was in high school I developed an interest in geography as a field of study and perhaps a vocation. However, this all started a lot earlier than that. When I was a child, […]
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) absolute energy-related carbon dioxide emissions declined 3.8 percent in 2012 at the same time the U.S. GDP grew by 2.8% in 2012.. For comparison from 1996 through […]
I blogged earlier about Google joining LocationTech as a strategic member (together with IBM, Oracle, Boundless( was OpenGeo), and Actuate). After lining up key strategic members, the next step was to attract open source geospatial […]