Archive for the ‘environment’ Category

Guilty Gourmet

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

No, not the caloric guilt. The ‘how much damage am I doing by eating this?’ kind. Let’s face it - what’s for dinner is truly the eternal question. And layering in the added consideration of ocean conservation and sustainability to the equation - it’s sure to be a blue box mac n’cheese kind of night.

While it’s not going to help solve all of your agricultural woes, this incredibly handy “Guide to Ocean Friendly Seafood” from Blue Ocean Institute will surely help guide you through your oceanic menu planning. They even have Fish Phone - a text-back feature for those frenzied restaurant moments when you’re just craving those Olympia Oysters and need to know if they’re cool. Yea, they’re cool.

fragility.

Monday, March 10th, 2008

as much as saving the environment can be about reducing one’s consumption, this may be an exception .

such striking images documented by mapmakers Collins Bartholomew.

carbon + cartograms.

Monday, March 10th, 2008

washington post’s staff cartographer, nathaniel vaughn kelso, blogs about carbon atlas design.

cartogram world totals