Shaming people into conserving energy

via GeoLounge (check out this link to see some sample maps):
 Haringey Council (located in London, England), is using heat mapping to highlight energy inefficient homes within their jurisdiction. The city council hired an aircraft fitted with a thermal imager to fly over all the homes in the jurisdiction to capture heat loss. The houses were [...]

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Earth as Art

USGS has a neat collection of satellite images constituting Earth as Art, which you can also add as a Google Gadget to your iGoogle page or web site.

Image Name: Karman Vortices
Image Date: September 1999
Image Source: Landsat 7
Scale: 1″= 4.3 miles(6.9km)
Description: Each of these swirling clouds is a result of a meteorological phenomenon known as a [...]

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