Thursday, 19 March 2009
Wednesday, 18 March 2009
TerraPass | Balance your carbon emissions and fight climate change
Chocolate bars. They're supposed to taste good, but can they also be good? We think so!
Our Climate Change Chocolate bar is meant to educate while tasting great. It comes in a wrapper with 15 tips for lightening your environmental impact. These helpful hints teach you how to save energy by making small changes to your daily habits
TerraPass | Balance your carbon emissions and fight climate change
Munich Re Group - Geo Risks
Losses from geo risks are increasing dramatically worldwide. Munich Re has been researching geoscientific phenomena, their risks and their loss potentials, since 1974.
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
water scarcity
What is water scarcity? Imbalances between availability and demand, the degradation of groundwater and surface water quality, intersectoral competition, interregional and international conflicts, all contributes to water scarcity.
Scarcity often has its roots in water shortage, and it is in the arid and semiarid regions affected by droughts and wide climate variability, combined with population growth and economic development, that the problems of water scarcity are most acute
Water stress in Europe - Maps and Graphics at UNEP/GRID-Arendal
10 figures for the report "Water stress in Europe, can the challenge be met?" published in 1997. Water resources, pesticides pollution, life expectancy...
Water stress in Europe - Maps and Graphics at UNEP/GRID-Arendal
EarthTrends | Environmental Information
EarthTrends is a comprehensive online database, maintained by the World Resources Institute, that focuses on the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world.
10 ideas changing the world right now
The global economy is being remade before our eyes. Here's a guide to the future of the economy, the environment, medicine and more
News articles and special reports of current events - TIME.com
Sunday, 15 March 2009
National Accounts of Well-being
What are National Accounts of Well-being and why do we need them?
nef has set out a radical proposal to guide the direction of modern societies and the lives of people who live in them. In contrast to the conventional narrow focus on economic indicators, it calls for governments to directly and regularly measure people’s subjective well-being: their experiences, feelings and perceptions of how their lives are going, as a new way of assessing societal progress.
LONDON Tube map
The movie above is a draft look at our 3D London Tube Map with the lines laid out according to their geographic location.
London Tube Map Geography:Visualisation Draft from digitalurban on Vimeo.
JPL Climate Time Machine
INTERACTIVE maps of case studies that show changes in sea level, ice melt, temperature changes, average global temperatures
Thursday, 12 March 2009
Amazon could shrink by 85% due to climate change
Scientists say 4C rise would kill 85% of the Amazon rainforest
Even modest temperature rise would see 20-40% loss within 100 years
Amazon could shrink by 85% due to climate change, scientists say | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 9 March 2009
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