Nova Scotia introduced Renewable Energy Standards (RES), often called a renewable portfolio standard (RPS) in other jurisdictions in February, 2007. The RES are mandatory standards that require that by 2013, Nova Scotia will generate at least 18.5% […]
Jean Thie of EcoInformatics has identified the longest beaver dam yet, 850 meters, just south of Lake Claire, about 190 km to the north northeast of Fort McMurray (of tar sands fame), inside Wood Buffalo […]
Google has announced that it has invested $38.8 million in two wind farms in North Dakota with a capacity of 169.5 MW. The wind farms were developed by NextEra Energy Resources. The investment was not […]
Back in October, I blogged about an Autodesk Labs project called Cooper, which was a new drawing software application for those users who don’t need full AutoCAD, but still want to create precision drawings. Project […]
Recently I blogged about Ontario’s microFIT (feed-in-tariff) program. As of 2009, feed-in tariff programs have been implemented in over 60 jurisdictions around the world, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, […]
OpenLayers 2.9, the latest stable version of OpenLayers, has been released. OpenLayers is used by many applications including MapGuide Open Source. The 2.9 release adds a number of important features, the full list of which […]
Autodesk University 2010 User Conference and Exhibition will take place from November 30 through December 2 at The Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas. At the same time, people from around the world will have the opportunity […]
On Earth Day 2010, Autodesk has announced the new online Autodesk Sustainable Design Center. It provides a one-stop shop to find the most current and up-to-date news about Autodesk’s sustainability performance and accomplishments. The new […]