Beaded Global Warming

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.

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Simulated satellite view of Holland

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 [...]

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Center for Land Use Interpretation

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. [...]

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Great site for information on Superfund Sites

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 [...]

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Project Vulcan

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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Atlanta Transit/Walk/Bike Planner

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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Green Maps Project

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 [...]

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Your coal footprint visualized

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. [...]

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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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