Posted on August 22nd, 2008 by Green Assembly
SINGAPORE ~ A team of students from Singapore has won a major international prize for developing a computer software that makes for a cleaner environment.
Calling themselves the Trailblazers, the students developed a program called Environmental Monitoring System (EMS) and entered it in the Imagine Cup Embedded Development competition.
Team members Pinto James Dominic, Shi Ben [...]
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Posted on August 19th, 2008 by Green Assembly
software program that can take measurements of the electrical activity inside a tree and interpret the information against different criteria
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Posted on August 11th, 2008 by Green Assembly
ART in the City: Exhibition: 15-30 August 2008 : The celebrated British artist Wendy Briggs is using climate change as the cue for her latest exhibition, Art in the City, at Srinakharinwirot University Art Gallery, Sukhumvit 23, Bangkok. The exhibition is funded by the British Council Thailand and the University.
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Posted on July 21st, 2008 by Green Assembly
BANGKOK ~ PATT (Plant A Tree Today) Foundation’s forest-restoration project in Tha Yang (Phetchaburi), underwent its first tree-planting event on Sunday when school-children, monks, government officers, villagers, PATT and local wildlife centre staff planted 2,500 trees, the first of 50,000 to be planted there by mid 2010.
When it matures, the 20-rai restored forest area will [...]
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Posted on July 10th, 2008 by Green Assembly
BANGKOK ~ Following a highly successful outcome last year, the Young Thai Science Journalist Competition 2008 has just been launched by its co-organisers, the British Council (BC), the National Science Museum and the Nation Junior Magazine.
Upper secondary school students across Thailand are being encouraged to take part in the competition by working in teams to [...]
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Posted on July 4th, 2008 by Green Assembly
SOME 257 secondary schools across Thailand have registered for the Schools Ecological Footprint Challenge 2008, the project organiser said in a statement issued on Thursday. The British Council, who are running the competition for the second year, said the total is 42 per cent up on last year and shows that interest in the environment is gathering [...]
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