World Bank and Google
January 17th, 2012 by Alison Wheatley in General
On January 16th, the World Bank and Google announced an agreement aimed at improving the ability of developing countries to access a web-based community mapping tool and data to help better monitor public services, and improve disaster and humanitarian response efforts.
The World Bank suggests that most developing coun...
Tags: Google, Humanitarian, map, World Bank
July 8th, 2011 by Alison Wheatley in Friday File
Several NGO’s, including Greenpeace and Sierra Club, have a website about the Alberta tar sands that features a map of the tar sands that can be placed ...
Tags: Greenpeace, map, Sierra Club, tar sands
August 27th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Friday File
Trees help us in so many ways. As MillionTreesNYC writes, trees help clean our air, and reduce the pollutants that worsen asthma attacks and other respiratory ...
Tags: Climate Change, community garden, map, MillionTreesNYC, parks, plant, trees
August 23rd, 2010 by Alison Wheatley and Susie Hill in Travel
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) is linking travel with conservation in order to conserve the Arctic’s habitat.
The UN News Centre reports that a joint campa...
Tags: Arctic, biodiversity, Conservation, map, sustainable, tourism, Travel, UN, UNEP
