Environmental Technology related information and happenings
The EEA publish a number of reports on a wide range of environmental issues.
Many of these can be downloaded free!
Recent reports include:
All these reports, and more, have been added to del.icio.us. The quickest way to find them is to click on the EU tag.
If you want to know when the EEA publishes new reports you can subscribe to their alerts service by email or RSS.
Interesting supplement in today’s Guardian – The Green List – takes a look at subjects such as carbon trading, transport and how government and business are responding (or not) to environmental issues.
We’ve also tagged this report on del.icio.us , or if you’d prefer to read off the page rather than off the screen, a copy is now in the ET reports collection on level 4 of the library, in the box marked ‘Odds and Sods’.
The United Nations has just published the fourth Global Environment Outlook: environment for development (GEO-4) assessment.
The full report (which is a whopping 572 pages and 22.5Mb) is available from the United Nations Environment Programme website.
A copy has also been ordered for the library, and we’ve tagged it on del.icio.us as well.
Start walking now! The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) have just announced their plans to make the London 2012 games car free by getting all spectators to the venues by public transport, by bicycle, or on foot.
The draft consultation plan is available at the London2012 website.
As it’s rare that a week passes without me claiming my Tube fare back from Transport for London due to delays, I wish them the very best of luck!
The New Scientist have put together a special report on climate change and energy and fuels featuring many of the articles they’ve published recently on these topics.
Online access to the New Scientist is available via the Digital Library.
And they are also on de.licio.us.
In the news this week is the WWF’s report on the ecological footprints of 60 UK cities.
Read the full report online.
The report has also been tagged on our de.licio.us account.
Environmental Technology info @ Imperial College London Library 