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The history of renewable energy

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Renewable energy is critical to combatting climate change and global warming. The use of clean energy and renewable energy resources—such as solar, wind and hydropower—originates in early human history; how the world has harnessed power from these resources to meet its energy needs has evolved over time.

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Examples and uses of GIS

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GIS perform spatial analysis of geospatial datasets—consisting of vector data (points, lines and polygons) and raster data (cells with spatial information)—to produce connected visualizations. Agriculture GIS technology makes productive, sustainable farming possible by providing accurate, comprehensive data.

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Creating a sustainable future with the experts of today and tomorrow

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We will also add more advanced courses that take a deeper look at how data analysis and visualization skills can be applied to practical sustainability use cases, such as examining energy consumption in a community. The courses also provide instruction in data analytics contextualized around sustainability use cases.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 December 2023

IT Governance

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Source (New) Agriculture USA Yes Unknown Precision Technologies Group – Holroyd Source (New) Engineering UK Yes Unknown A.G. Source (New) Manufacturing Canada Yes 1.2

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Climate change predictions: Anticipating and adapting to a warming world

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For instance, when utility officials are aware that a heat wave is on its way, they can plan energy procurement to prevent power outages. 3 While the transition from fossil fuels to clean, renewable energy sources is already underway, accelerating this transition could help further limit emissions, even amid rising global energy needs.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 27 November – 3 December 2023

IT Governance

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Welcome to this week’s round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 12 – 18 February 2024

IT Governance

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. 402,437,094 known records breached in 240 publicly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories.