Posted in Environment, Geography, Maps, Video, tagged carbon, carbon emissions, emissions, Maps, perdue, perdue university, project vulcan, Video on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
In the categories of maps and carbon emissions, I present Project Vulcan (and it has nothing to do with Star Trek, except perhaps some inspiration in naming). This is a project at Purdue University to distill information about carbon emissions by economic sector (power, industry, transportation) into useful visualizations. It is funded by [...]
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Posted in The Stuff of Life on April 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I believe knowledge is power - the power to change our behavior for the better. Driving a hybrid car with dashboard feedback on fuel efficiency lets you know instantly how you can change your driving habits to reduce the amount of gas you use.
What if you could see instantly how much electricity, natural gas, [...]
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Al Gore premiered his new climate change talk and slide show at the recent TED conference. I tried to embed the video here, but it didn’t work, so here is the link.
Here is the blurb from the site:
In Al Gore’s brand-new slideshow (premiering exclusively on TED.com), he presents evidence that the pace of climate change [...]
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Posted in Environment, Food, The Stuff of Life, vegan, tagged community supported agriculture, CSA, farmer's market, Food, fruit, herbicide, local harvest, organic, pesticide, songbirds, vegetables on April 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It’s almost CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) season! I just re-subscribed to the CSA I joined last year and am looking forward to the local, organic food that will be delivered weekly for distribution to my nearby synogogue. It’s important to eat local and organic food for a variety of reasons including reduced carbon [...]
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Posted in Maps, tagged a-train, atlanta, biking, google, google transit, Maps, public transportation, transit, trip planning, urban, walk, walking on April 2, 2008 | No Comments »
I made a discovery today that makes me so incredibly happy. For months, I’ve been wondering why Atlanta can’t get with the program and submit its public transportation data to Google Transit. I still don’t know why it hasn’t happened, but now we have something better: A-TRAIN Atlanta Transit/Bike/Walk Trip Planner. This site is so [...]
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