Just a quick note to feature this beautiful beadwork illustrating global warming in North America.
By Peggy Dembicer on flickr.
What a beautiful piece of artwork to bring attention to this threat to our global ecosystem.
Posted in Art, Craft, Environment, Geography, Maps, global warming on March 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Just a quick note to feature this beautiful beadwork illustrating global warming in North America.
By Peggy Dembicer on flickr.
What a beautiful piece of artwork to bring attention to this threat to our global ecosystem.
Posted in Environment, Geography, Maps, Ocean, tagged climate change, coastal, holland, imagery, netherlands, satellite, sea level rise on November 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There was an interesting article in the New York Times today about a plan by the Netherlands to build a tulip-shaped island off-shore to help protect its coast from sea level rise. Here is the photo that appeared:
From the article:
The idea, Mr. de Boer went on, would be not only to gain land and protect [...]
Posted in Art, Books, Environment, Fun, Geography, Maps, The Stuff of Life, Urban Nature, tagged architecture, Center for Land Use Interpretation, design, landscape, non-profit organizations, Photography, transit, trash on August 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here is a group I want to find out a lot more about: The Center for Land Use Interpretation. I discovered them from a little sidebar in the New York Times on the Hudson River which mentioned their new book, Up River: Man-Made Sites of Interest on the Hudson from the Battery to Troy. [...]
Posted in Environment, Geography, tagged cleanup, design, government accountability, pollution, Superfund, Superfund365, toxic cleanup, toxic waste, toxics, waste, web design on June 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Superfund – what’s that? Just a little program that made polluters pay to clean up after themselves – spurred by the infamous Love Canal case. But it was more or less killed by the Bush Administration (well, it has been defunded, which is the same thing).
I just ran across a review in American [...]
Posted in Environment, Geography, Maps, Video, tagged carbon, carbon emissions, emissions, Maps, perdue, perdue university, project vulcan, Video on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Maps, tagged a-train, atlanta, biking, google, google transit, Maps, public transportation, transit, trip planning, urban, walk, walking on April 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Citizen Science, Environment, Geography, Maps, Urban Nature, tagged envirionment, green living, green map, mammaking, Maps, tourism, urban environment on March 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have been waiting to post on this for over a week while I became inspired to add some value to simply linking to Green Maps Around the World, but I really can’t add anything to their own self-description:
Green Map ® System promotes inclusive participation in sustainable community development around the world, using mapmaking as [...]
Posted in Energy, Environment, Geography, Maps, tagged Appalachia, Appalachian Mountains, coal, electricity, Kentucky, mountains, mountaintop removal, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia on February 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
If you haven’t heard of mountiantop removal, you are about to be in for a shock. Many people do not realize that a large portion of our electricity still comes from coal and that the preferred method for mining coal today involves the literal removal of the tops of mountains in the Appalachians. [...]
Posted in Environment, Geography, Maps, Urban Nature on September 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Fun, Geography, Maps, Photography on September 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]