GeoInformatica, Volume 14, Number 3 / July, 2010 Nieves R. Brisaboa, Miguel R. Luaces, Ángeles S. Places and Diego Seco “Both Geographic Information Systems and Information Retrieval have been very active research fields in the last decades. Lately, a new research field called Geographic Information Retrieval has appeared from the intersection of these two fields. [...]
On E2, Nike, eBay and others are asking Senators to “get stalled climate and energy legislation back on track.”
Reuters reports that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will start analyzing the comprehensive climate and clean energy bill. “The EPA analysis is an important step in the legislative process.” “We are sending the bill to be modeled [...]
Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, Working paper 213, 2009 “Following the empirical study, cloud-free satellite data were used to study the forests in multi-temporal dimensions. Use of remote sensing data with visual observation/ground truth data is an advanced tool to study and understand the development patterns of the forests. Based on the vegetation [...]
Global Change Biology, Volume 16 Issue 1 , Pages 234-245 (January 2010) IAHONG LI, JOHN E. ERICKSON, GARY PERESTA, and BERT G. DRAKE “Wetlands evapotranspire more water than other ecosystems, including agricultural, forest and grassland ecosystems. However, the effects of elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration (Ca) on wetland evapotranspiration (ET) are largely unknown. Here, [...]
Hydrogen vehicles are the future and provide one of the ways to stop using fossil fuels. This therefore cuts down on greenhouse gases that produce global warming. These 20 futuristic hydrogen vehicle concept designs are some the coolest concept designs that we’d like to see rolling down the highway soon.Ronn Motors Scorpion Roadster(image credits: autoblog)
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Environmental Observer, Spring 2010 Ian Foreman, GHD “WetlandCare Australia is improving New South Wales (NSW), Australia’s wetland environments and biodiversity through natural resource management projects. It commissioned the Central West Catchment Management Authority (CWCMA) to develop an access database that would enable staff members to prioritize and rank 113 wetland complexes. This information would help [...]
Italian Journal of Zoology, Volume 77, Issue 1 March 2010 , pages 61 – 70 T. Hartel; K. Oumlllerer; D. Cogabrevelniceanu; Sz. Nemes; C. I. Moga; and L. Demeter “Habitat-based inventories provide critical reference data that are essential to track changes in amphibian communities and their habitats. We present the results of a pond inventory [...]
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Home Contact About EcoGeek.org APR 22 Recent Comment One of the Voices of Eco-Development bloggers , Frances , wrote about ve . View all Comments Share Email it Print it Digg it Reddit it Del.icio.us Stumble it Vertical Farming That Does Work Written by Philip Proefrock on 22 04 10 Although we've been sceptical about the financial viability of vertical farming schemes that doesn't mean we are opposed to bringing more greenery into urban areas in any way , and systems that merge vegetation with buildings can be both beneficial and beautiful . We are definitely fans of green roofs Parabienta is a wall garden panel system that provides a growth medium to support plants and allow them to grow along vertical surfaces . Vegetated vertical panels help to reduce solar gain on walls , much the same
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