Following the Cabinet’s move to increase the nation-wide daily minimum wage to Bt 300 from January 1, 2013, the Thailand Government has stepped forward to help the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), including textile and ...
FENG shui, the 6,000-year-old Chinese art or practice of geomancy, is said to utilize the laws of heaven and earth to improve by increasing positive energy or qi and avoiding the negative energy. In practice, feng shui (literally ...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published a GATEWAY demonstration report that summarizes and compares experiences from field installations of occupancy sensor-controlled LED lighting in two parking structures and two parking lots. ...
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Organisations are struggling to cope with increasing datacentre complexity according to a global survey of 2,453 IT professionals from Symantec. The vast majority(79%)of organisations globally said their datacentres were getting more ...
Tags: Cloud mobile computing and virtualisation, increasing complexity
expanding on the legacy of sustainable development that has expanded in past Olympics. London partnered with World Wildlife Fund and BioRegional to create "One Planet Olympics," a program that addresses energy¸ carbon, ...
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A limited availability of logs, high log purchase prices, and negative effects on sales of softwood lumber by the general economic and financial crisis have been hampering the business activity of softwood lumber producers in the European ...
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Cemex has reached an agreement with Chinese Sinoma Energy Conservation Ltd. To build a waste heat-to-energy (WHTE) facility. The 800 million Philippine peso (approximately US$18.6 million) facility will be placed in Cemex’s solid ...
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Southern and western softwood lumber producers believe the pace of business activity slowed again on domestic and foreign softwood lumber markets in February. In addition to halted building activity due to weather conditions, demand is ...
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Because there are many options for harnessing energy from the sun, solar power can work in a variety of ways. The most common one is through the use of photovoltaic (PV) technology, which directly transforms sunlight into electricity. It ...
Just as IKEA stops selling incandescent bulbs in Israel, a new study that illuminates some unknown health effects of newer environmentally friendly LED lights – effects that might help us know more about lighting and cancer. Exposure ...
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