The Hidden Environmental Costs of Food

Great 'scrolly-type' story here from the NYT: The Hidden Environmental Costs of Food.

Rowboat

Rowboat is a tool to quickly explore massive data tables (CSV or MS Excel) in your browser window. Sounds a little niche, but whatever works!

Bostonography

Bostonography is a great project: how would local draw the boundaries of neighborhoods?

Five ways to improve your chart axes

Five ways to improve your chart axes is not particularly new or original, but the R crowd will appreciate the code examples provided.

Science!

 

Your Name From Space

This is utterly useless, but fun: Your Name in Landsat. Well-done NASA!

EJAtlas - Global Atlas of Environmental Justice

This is very cool: https://ejatlas.org/

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.

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!

• What's new in ArcGIS StoryMaps (August 2024)
• Map-based images & ArcGIS StoryMaps: a treasure trove of possibilities