activities & projects

Lifemapper

Lifemapper is a distributed Internet computing project, processing and mapping records of millions of plants and animals in the world's natural history museums. It computes the ecological profile of each species, maps where the species has been found, and predicts where each species could potentially live.

Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)

BOINC is being developed by the SETI@home team to enable researchers in areas as diverse as molecular biology, climatology, and astrophysics to tap into the enormous but under-utilized calculating power of personal computers world-wide.

Digital Earth 3D Geobrowser

Technologies are rapidly developing to connect citizens with improved data, information, and tools for sustaining life on the planet. This Web site is dedicated to fostering a community of systems developers, data providers, and users to accelerate the creation of 3D Geobrowsers.

GeoFusion

The GeoMatrix Toolkit provides superior rendering quality and high performance on a full range of hardware platforms that support OpenGL. Developers can easily integrate this development kit with existing applications to provide increased performance and quality global-to-street-level rendering.

Solar City

Solar City is an international program to assist towns, cities and city regions in fully integrating renewable energy technologies, in order to achieve globally sustainable greenhouse gas emission levels and to lower reliance on fossil fuels.

Green Power

Green Power is a national accreditation program that sets stringent environmental a reporting standards for renewable energy products offered by electricity suppliers to households and businesses across Australia.

Smart Communications Network

This project offered by the US Department of Energy provides information and services on how communities can adopt sustainable development as a strategy for well-being.

Project NIK

The goal of this project is to make wise use of the instrument of "road-mapping" to lay out sustainable strategies for the further development of information and communication technologies.

Digital Europe

Digital Europe is a panEuropean research project investigating the impacts of ebusiness on sustainable development.

Ecological City Transport System (ECTOS)

The overall objective of ECTOS is to implement a demonstration of state-of-the-art hydrogen technology by running part of the public transport system with fuel cell busses within Reykjavi­k, Iceland.

Syndicate content