links for 2007-03-08

• New York City Mayor Receives Award for Technology Leadership - Government Technology
  New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg received the Pathfinder Award on Friday from the Kennedy School of Government's Leadership for a Network World (LNW) program. Bloomberg was honored for starting New York City's 311 hotline and other innovative program
  (tags: information technology government cities 311 broadband)
• The Growing Urbanization of the World -- The Earth Institute at Columbia University
  The majority of the world’s population will soon live in urban rather than rural areas. Adding a spatial dimension to population estimates, a new study finds that as much as three percent of the Earth’s land area has already been urbanized, which is d
  (tags: geography mapping maps population)
• WHOI : Rising Sea Levels and Moving Shorelines
  (tags: blue_economy)
• Across the Atlantic, Slowing Breezes - New York Times
  Denmark is respected in environmental circles for its use of wind power, but "a closer look shows that Denmark is a far cry from a clean-energy paradise."
  (tags: alternatives energy sustainability denmark wind)
• Vermont Wants You to Fill Its Open Spaces - New York Times
  Vermont is "trying to use the clean air, open space and connection to the earth, which brought early environmentalists here in the 1970s, to attract businesses."
  (tags: business environment competition regional)