Posted in Environment, Geography, tagged cleanup, design, government accountability, pollution, Superfund, Superfund365, toxic cleanup, toxic waste, toxics, waste, web design on June 11, 2008 | No Comments »
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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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 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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Posted in Citizen Science, Environment, Geography, Maps, Urban Nature, tagged envirionment, green living, green map, mammaking, Maps, tourism, urban environment on March 5, 2008 | No Comments »
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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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. [...]
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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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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 [...]
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Ever wondered about factory farming in your neck of the woods (or elsewhere?) Here is an interesting site with a nice web mapping application to help you find out about the impacts of factory farming anywhere in the U.S.: factoryfarmmap.org
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Posted in Environment, Maps on May 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has two new Google Maps Mashups that Canucks can use to keep track of environmental initiatives across the Provinces and to review information about mercury in canned tuna in Vancouver, Winnipeg and Toronto:
Canada’s Green Cities - Armed with a $550-million Green Municipal Fund courtesy of the federal government, [...]
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Satellite image of shrimp trawlers in China - Kyle Van Houtan
Yesterday, the Science section of the New York Times featured an article on the visible impact of shrimp trawling wordwide: Satellites Show Harvest of Mud That Trawlers Leave Behind. This is an interesting use of Google Earth for research and presentation purposes. Although [...]
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