Climate Change Resources: Teaching & Learning

These teaching & learning resources frpm the Council on Foreign Relations are pretty impressive: https://education.cfr.org/climate-change-resources.

• Science
• Mitigation
• Adaptation
• Policy
• Energy
• Geoengineering
• Lesson Plans (highscholl & higher education)
• Simulations

The 15-Minute City

The 15 min City platform lets you explore how much worldwide cities are close to this ideal, by merging open data about venues within cities, population grids and routing algorithms. With 15 min City, you can check which activities or places are accessible to a neighbourhood on foot and by bike, and compare it to other urban areas. You can also check which city is the closest to the 15 minutes ideal looking at our city rankings in the map. In the following we address the main tools that are present in the platform.

Try it here: https://whatif.sonycsl.it/15mincity/15mincity.php

Camp Century Found (again!)

Cool story here about Camp Century & how it was 'found' again by-accident during GPR airborne survey: New View of the “City Under the Ice”

Passenger rail services in 1980 and 2024

Nice, simple, and clear: https://walkitect.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/media/index.html?appid=49cce9647b164c43aa5c373f05290c78 

The New Normal: Changing Climate Zones

Climate zones on the move visualizes the historical and predicted future changes in the global distribution of Köppen-Geiger climate zones. Best-viewed when zoomed-into an area such as New England as some of the changes are a little subtle.

The Nuclear Energy Emergence

Or, maybe re-emergence? Nuclear energy looked dead & done in 2011, but it is (maybe) making a come-back. Or, it could just be the perception of a come-back fueled by marketing hype from the nuclear energy industry? Regardless of what your think, here are two facts: 1) nuclear energy is expensive and always will be and 2) we have not solved the nuclear fuel cycle. Nuclear energy may need to be part of our global energy network, but somehow we need to come to terms with these two facts along the way. Here are two great resources:

• The Nuclear Stations Map
• On the nuclear trail: The dawn of a global renaissance in nuclear energy

Overture Maps Explorer (Beta)

I really don't know much about it, but the Overture Maps Explorer (Beta) apparently lets you zoom-into any location on Earth & then download a bunch of map data.

More over @ Maps Mania: Free Map Data Grabbers