Every year Maplecroft prepares a country-by-country scorecard Climate Change and Environmental Risk Atlas 2014 for the world’s countries that assesses the risks relating to climate change. Criteria include resource security; emissions and waste; ecosystem services; […]
In August 2004, the NIST released a study that attempted to identify and estimate the efficiency losses in the U.S. capital facilities industry resulting from inadequate interoperability among computer-aided design, engineering, and software systems. This […]
USS Ford Nov 8 the U.S. Navy will be christening the USS Gerald R. Ford, the Navy’s newest aricarft carrier, and a very different ship from any previous carrier. Among other firsts it is the […]
PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) released an annual report Trends in global CO2 emissions. According to the report global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) increased 1.1% to […]
Open data has been gathering momentum among governments ever since United States Federal Government data was placed in the public domain. The principle of free and open access to government geospatial data has been adopted […]
Neither the U.S. or Canada have binding emissions reduction targets at the national level. However, 36 states and most Canadian provinceshave enacted Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) which sets objectives for renewable electrical energy sources at […]
October 3 was windy and sunny and a holiday in Germany. At noon wind and solar generated power provided 59.1 % of German demand. (Apparently Germany hit peaks of 61 % and 59 % wind […]
I blogged recently about SolarCity’s plan to develop a system with partners that will combine Tesla Motors’ vehicle battery system with SolarCity solar systems to create a combined photovoltaic (PV) and stationary storage product which […]