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Europe imposing anti-dumping duties on Chinese solar panels

Europe imposing anti-dumping duties on Chinese solar panels

The European Commission has imposed provisional anti-dumping duties on the impor...

Leading airlines call for a global carbon offsetting scheme for aviation

Leading airlines call for a global carbon offsetting scheme for aviation

The world’s leading airlines urge governments to establish an all-inclusive gree...

Google makes first renewable investment in Africa

Google makes first renewable investment in Africa

Internet giant Google has made its first ever renewable energy investment in Afr...

World’s first floating wind turbine connected to the grid in Maine

World’s first floating wind turbine connected to the grid in Maine

A grid-connected offshore floating wind turbine has been launched off the coast ...

E.U. beats Kyoto target ahead of deadline

E.U. beats Kyoto target ahead of deadline

Europe has already achieved - even surpassed - its Kyoto Protocol target nine ye...

Israel’s Better Place shutting down

Israel’s Better Place shutting down

Better Place, as the name connotes aims to make the world a “better place” by le...

Inclusive and Green: Africa’s economic ‘makeover’

Inclusive and Green: Africa’s economic ‘makeover’

For the longest time, Africa has been dubbed as the world’s poorest inhabited co...

Business

Latin America, Caribbean to be R.E.-dependent by 2050

Latin America, Caribbean to be R.E.-dependent by 2050

Wednesday, 19 June 2013

According to a report commissioned by the Inter-American Development Bank, Latin America and the Caribbean’s renewable energy potential is large enoug...

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Technology

Flexible ribbons of graphite make for better, stronger battery anode

Flexible ribbons of graphite make for better, stronger battery anode

Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Ribbons of graphene and tin oxide have been used by researchers at Rice University to boost the efficiency of a lithium ion battery. The researchers b...

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Politics

U.N. General Assembly to tackle ocean acidification

U.N. General Assembly to tackle ocean acidification

Tuesday, 18 June 2013

The United Nations General Assembly will be discussing the increasing acidificiation of the world’s oceans and its impacts on people and the marine en...

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Living Green

10 Recycling Misconceptions

10 Recycling Misconceptions

Monday, 10 June 2013

In the U.S., recycling has been steadily increasing in popularity for decades, and with good reason! Despite the fact that it's become more widespread...

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Renewables

Low-Carbon

Volvo noiseless electric buses to hit streets of Gothenburg in 2015

Volvo noiseless electric buses to hit streets of Gothenburg in 2015

Tuesday, 18 June 2013

The Volvo Group has announced plans for a new line of electric buses that promise not just emission-less driving but noiseless driving as well. In coo...

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Opinion

Looking to the future of sustainability reporting

Looking to the future of sustainability reporting

Tuesday, 18 June 2013

With the world moving more and more toward sustainable development, there is a rising demand from the public and governments for big businesses to sho...

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Smart Transportation

Event Name: Smart Transportation
Event Date: November 14-16, 2012
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Website:

http://www.wplgroup.com/aci/conferences/smart-transportation.asp


This three-day industry summit will focus on how intelligence is being infused into the way the world works—the systems and processes that enable services to be delivered is changing, and all around the world, economic stimulus is being injected by governments, much of it aimed at smart grids, healthcare data integration and most importantly, smart transportation. As we look ahead to the needs and challenges of the 21st century, it has become clear we must do more.

Learn About:

  • Operational strategies that offer cost-effective solutions to national and local transportation
  • Achieving Sustainability, Improving Mobility, Enhancing Safety, and Providing Technological   Solutions
  • Optimizing taxpayer dollars while improving transportation safety, efficiency, the environment and our global competitiveness
  • Exploring new opportunities to reinvent transportation to meet the needs of the 21st century
  • Building the business case to improve the Smart Transportation experience
  • Innovative ways to fund transportation solutions
  • Exploring the future and implications of connected vehicles
  • Collecting and using data to guide infrastructure planning
  • Optimizing traffic flow and reducing carbon emissions
  • Monitoring and measuring smart transportation efforts

Who Will Attend?

This conference aims to brings together key decision-makers from cities, municipalities and local governments, including administrators and urban planners, as well as senior-level executives from utilities, energy suppliers, service providers and transport operators with responsibility for strategic development, sustainability, infrastructure and network management, finance and regulation.

Also, Ieading cross-industry players – from architects and designers to financial institutions and investors – to attend and incorporate their perspectives on how best to transform today’s city transportation into the intelligent and cost efficient cities of tomorrow.

For details contact
Kristin Kozub
Marketing Manager
Phone: 312-780-0700
Email: kkozub@acius.net

 

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