http://www.allvoices.com/ en-us A significant change in the structure of the city of Helsinki (Finland) is currently in progress.According to the Master Plan 2002 Helsinki will be developed as an European capital city.Helsinki is an important part of a growing metropolitan area. The... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3321646 Thu, 28 May 2009 17:34:32 -0700 Last weekend, at the Museum of Electricity , in Lisbon, took place the public exhibition "Festival Solar" . It was possible to better understand the different forms of energy production, like concentrating solar power ( CSP ) and photovoltaic (PV)... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3251440 Tue, 19 May 2009 11:18:22 -0700 Photoset of Portugal´s largest photovoltaic power stations ( until March ), which are located in the Portuguese region of Alentejo. You can also click the links on the page to read the five parts of the article “Alentejo: Solar Region”.... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2814257 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:39:41 -0700 Two parties- organized groups, states or organizations - determined to achieve their goals; interests or positional differences over national values. These are the two necessary elements for a clash (or conflict), according to the definition in the last 17th annual... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2527302 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:46:43 -0800 On past Sunday, an article in Helsingin Sanomat (HS) , the biggest subscription newspaper in Finland, sparked an intense polemic - political leaders and representatives of Nokia quickly denied that the company had threatened to pull out of the Nordic... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2439845 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:10:12 -0800 In Finland, eight legal experts interviewed by Parliament’s Constitutional Law Committee opined that the government’s proposal for changing the Act on Data Protection of Electronic Communications is unconstitutional. Last week, the committee stated that the bill for an amendment... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2429045 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:15:39 -0800 The US Department of Energy (DoE) invited the Portuguese INESC-Porto (Research Institute of Computer Systems) to develop a new and better platform for wind power forecasting . The project will enable to estimate with high accuracy and less uncertainty the... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2422269 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:15:22 -0800 Now, Internet users can dive into the oceans, travel in time and see the planet Mars in high resolution, through the new features of Google Earth 5.0 (beta application) , which were presented at the Lisbon headquarters of the company,... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2413998 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:48:11 -0800 The revelation comes soon after French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s decision to build a second European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) in France. Second Greenpeace, the alarming evidence was buried in the environmental impact assessment report from the company Posiva, which is responsible... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2404481 Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:59:38 -0800 Ambassador Susan E. Rice, USA new envoy to the United Nations, has told Israel to investigate allegations that it violated international law during its recent Gaza Strip offensive. In her statement in the Security Council, on respect for International Humanitarian... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2382864 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:42:07 -0800 Google and two nonprofit partners, the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute and the PlanetLab Consortium, launched the website Measurement Lab . M-Lab lets Internet users test their connections to reveal possible interference and traffic management by ISP´s. Transparency... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2375866 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:02:48 -0800 Sami Sippola (saxophones), Ville Rauhala (double bass/electric bass) and Simo Laihonen (drums) are three young talented musicians from Tampere, Finland. They form the free jazz band “ Black Motor ”. The industrial city of Tampere , the "Manchester” of Finland,... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2357465 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:23:05 -0800 A US Airways Airbus A320 plane with 146 passengers on board has crashed into the Hudson River in New York. Second local media, the flight 1549 to Charlotte had just left the city's La Guardia airport and was trying to... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2261648 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:09:20 -0800 On Wednesday, Alexander Stubb , Finland's Foreign Minister, met with Israel's ambassador to the nordic country, Avi Granot, to discuss the destruction of a hospital clinic in Gaza co-funded by a Finnish Lutheran group called Finn Church Aid . Finn... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2252503 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:11:55 -0800 The Sustainable Society Foundation has published its update of the 2006 Sustainable Society Index, which covers 151 countries. The new publication, the SSI-2008 , has been launched December 2008 and integrates for the first time sustainability and quality of life... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2224795 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:08:31 -0800 Israeli media reports several rockets being fired from Lebanon into the north of Israel, around the town of Nahariya , about 8 Km south of the Lebanese border, early on Thursday. According to an army spokeswoman, the Israeli army has... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2193043 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:04:02 -0800 In Bangalore, REVA Electric Car Company revealed its India's first electric car to participate in the Indian Climate Solutions Road Tour , a rally around the country to raise awareness about climate change. The road tour started in Chennai on... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2190506 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:43:50 -0800 The government of President Hugo Chavez ordered the expulsion of Israel's ambassador, Shlomo Cohen, and some embassy personnel to protest against the country's attack on Gaza Strip and in solidarity with the Palestinian people, announced the Ministry of Foreign Affairs... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2181698 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:40:34 -0800 According to the Times Online there were growing fears in Israel last night that Hamas missiles could threaten its top-secret nuclear facility at Dimona . When the Israeli nuclear program started later 50's, a location not far from Dimona city... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2143611 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:08:42 -0800 Marko "Signmark" Vuoriheimo, a deaf Finnish rap artist, is changing the world by rapping in sign language. He doesn't shy away from taking a stand on human rights and tolerance. Born into a signing family, "Signmark" feels that society should... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/2128854 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:26:20 -0800