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3TIER® today announced the completion of its REmapping the World™ initiative, which was launched in March 2008 to address the biggest barrier to global renewable energy adoption – the lack of reliable information regarding resource potential and availability.

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Lance Whitney

The number of mobile phone subscriptions worldwide reached 4.6 billion last year and is expected to hit 5 billion this year, says the International Telecommunication Union.

On a planet with around 6.8 billion people, we're likely to see 5 billion cell phone subscriptions this year.

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Satellite images that track levels of deforestation could be used in the fight against climate change.

By Stephanie Rogers

Fri, Dec 11 2009 at 1:31 PM EST

If you're wondering how "close" two places are, a geographic map doesn't help much anymore. If the airports are good--or if there's a bullet train nearby--hundreds of miles might as well be down the street.

In inaugural ceremonies webcast around the world, Saudi Arabia inaugurated the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) on Sept. 23.

KAUST, the Kingdom's new tech university, bets big on data display.

This spreadsheet was developed and revised by the SDRSP Metrics Task Force over a two year period ending in 2009. The intent was to review many other community sustainability metrics, and come up with a generic list of metrics that appeared important to measure (in a developed country). The MTF had to follow a fine line between what we thought was important to be measured and what could actually be followed and reported on to the community. We settled on a much smaller list of measures than what we wanted to include, due to several disparate reasons.