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Volume 2 / Issue 51/ December 23, 2008
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| TOP FIVE BLOG POSTS OF THE YEAR |
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| VECTOR ONE |
SPATIAL SUSTAIN |
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It is easy to cite heart-stopping statistics when discussing the urgent
need for worldwide sustainability initiatives. Clearly, action is required if we intend the planet to support
society into perpetuity, not to mention offer the opportunity for all
people to realize the quality of life enjoyed in the developed world.
Similar to how investments in areas that both benefit our planet and our
economy are gaining ground, the Open Geospatial Consortium is calling
for key building industry players to make a relatively small investment
of time and money with the potential for a huge pay-off. Working
together to create a common vision and program for interoperability
among their information systems will eliminate waste and increase
profits.
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| TOP FIVE LINKS OF THE WEEK |
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| Jeff's Top Five Links of the Week |
- GEOsuccess - Global Earth Observation in Support of Climate Change and Environmental Security
Studies
- VITO - Technology for Ecology and Economy Belgium
- mip - The Environmental and Energy Technology Innovation Platform (MIP) aims
to increase and to propagate this leading position at the international
level.
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VGT4Africa - The VGT4AFRICA project aims at setting up an operational and timely distribution system of Vegetation data from the SPOT satellites and high level derived products to all African countries.
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Agenzia Spaziale Italiana - The Italian Space Agency came into being in 1988. Its purpose was to coordinate all of Italy's efforts and investments in the space sector that had begun in the 1960s.
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| Matt's Top Five Links of the Week |
- Western Climate Initiative - Created to identify, evaluate, and implement collective and cooperative ways to reduce greenhouse gases in the region
- Parkinfo.org - A Google Maps mashup of parks and open lands for the entire state of California.
- Appropedia - A knowledge base for building rich and sustainable lives.
- EPA Sustainable Technologies - Advancing the understanding, development and
application of technologies and methods of prevention, removal
and control of environmental risks to human health and ecology.
- National League of Cities - Strengthening and promoting cities as centers of opportunity, leadership, and governance.
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| Reader´s Links of the Week |
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VEGETATION - 10 Years Operational Global VEGETATION Monitoring (1998-2008) What's next ?
EuDASM - European Digital Soil Map Archive
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 A great amount of spatial information has been gathered about buildings
when they are designed. But very little digital information is
available for existing buildings - and other information relating to
inside structures. Using geographic information systems (GIS), robotics
and bridging computer-aided design (CAD) techniques, Penobscot Bay
Media, LLC has developed mobile robotics for data gathering inside
buildings, as well as developing one of the first GIS enabled data
models for this work. V1 Magazine editor Jeff Thurston met with Stuart
Rich of PenBay in London, UK recently to discuss these initiatives and
to learn more.
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Int'l Forestry and Environment Symposium, Dec. 27-28, Kalutara, Sri Lanka
Offshore Arabia 2009 , Jan. 11-13, Dubai, UAE
Cartography and Geoinformatics for Early Warning and Emergency Management, Jan. 19-22, Prague, Czech Republic
GIS Ostrava 2009 , Jan. 25-29, Ostrav, Czech Republic
Spatial Information for Sustainable Management of Urban Areas, Feb. 2-4, Mainz, Germany
First Global Summit On Sustainable Development and Biodiversity 2008 , Feb. 7-9, Raipur, India
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 Autodesk University 2008 took place in Las Vegas, Nevada from Dec. 1-5.
This year's event attracted roughly 9,000 people, with the theme,
"Experts Like You". The current state of the economy was on everyone's
minds, with fewer attendees due to cutbacks in the AEC industry. But as
a result of the economic pressures, it was a very motivated group to
gain skills and learn strategies in order to continue to be competitive.
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Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A do-it-Ourselves Guide (2008)
By Scott Kellogg, Stacy Pettigrew and Juan Martinez
Step-by-step insructions for producing your own food, collecting water, managing waste, reclaiming land and generating energy.
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EcoCities: Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature (2006)
By Richard Register
Most of the world's population now lives in cities. So if we are to
address the problems of environmental deterioration and peak oil
adequately, the city has to be a major focus of attention.
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Design with Nature (1995)
By Ian L. McHarg
With a distinct emphasis on human cooperation and biological
partnership in design, the author explores the relationship between the
built environment and nature to illustrate how both can be used to
their full potential without being detrimental or destructive to each
other.
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