Monday, September 16, 2024
Thursday, September 12, 2024
The Spheres
Let's review the Earth's Spheres:
- Biosphere = all living things.
- Ecosphere = all living things + their physical environments (that's basically the definition of an ecosystem). The term 'ecosphere' is now used with respect to regions of space where living things could exist.
- Geo-ecosphere = an alternative for the term 'Earth System'.
- Anthropsphere = the part of Earth inhabited and/or influenced and/or modified by humans. Also called: the humanosphere. This could the considered the fifth sphere in addition to atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere.
- Technosphere = all the human artifacts on Earth and in space. especially those connected to the extraction and transport of energy sources.
- Builtsphere = everything that has been built.
Read the full paper @ Earth’s spheres: Conceptual and definitional debates.
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
The Massive Interactive Energy Flow Chart
These energy flow charts are great!
- The simple 'static' versions from LLNL: https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/commodities/energy
- The massive interactive version: http://energyliteracy.com/
Image Maps in Esri Story Maps
Image maps embedded in websites were cool back in the mid-1990s and since then there have been a few different apps and tool to turn an image into a 'map'. Now, Esri added that capability to Story Maps!
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